Domestic parrots live in unnatural for of a type conditions, and the healthy nutrition promotes their longevity. Because of an unreasoned diet the majority of birds (in the nature – long-livers) in bondage does not live also up to age of 8-10 years. If you brought the feathery pet, carefully think over his diet by means of the veterinarian and the experienced manufacturer. If the parrot does not eat the forage prepared for him, it is necessary to think seriously. The reasons of it can be different – from the bad menu to a disease of your pet.
Take a closer look at familiar fans of feathery pets. Whether many of them scrupulously observe all recommendations of the veterinarian, enter all necessary forages of plant and animal origin into the menu of parrots? Under natural conditions birds get to themselves livelihood, instinctively choosing necessary healthy food. In bondage they should be content with the maintenance of a feeding trough.
Sometimes, that owners of domestic parrots a long time feed them with grains alone and fruit. Meanwhile, birds have to receive regularly fresh greens and vegetables, grain and flour-grinding waste, branches and buds of trees, animal protein and vitamins, cod-liver oil and special damp fodder mixes … In other words, good nutrition according to requirements for concrete breed. Naturally, because of a poor diet the parrot can get sick, and will begin to refuse food. Loss of appetite of your pet has to guard you. Pay special attention to a bird if she becomes sluggish and apathetic, and her elegant plumage loses the initial gloss and becomes fragile. These are strong indications of shortage of some vitamins and mineral substances in an organism feathery. The tamed birds who since the birth grew in unfreedom gradually get used to a certain forage. If you initially did not diversify a diet of a parrot, then he can refuse new (such useful to it) an additional forage. Some feathery fastidious persons even choose from nutritious mix only the favourite food (for example, sunflower seeds, not too useful to them), other components disregard. However even at a constant variety of a diet your parrot can not eat the offered forage, and at the same time lose weight. The expanded outgrowth on a beak can become the reason of such forced starvation, in particular. It prevents a bird to eat normally. It happens when the parrot does not have conditions for independent grinding of a beak. In such situation it is necessary to pay immediately a visit to the veterinarian and to cut off unnecessary horn deposits. Before getting a parrot, surely develop for him the full menu together with the expert. Accustom the pet to various fodder mixes and try to take out as often as possible a cage a bird on sunlight that the eaten food was acquired better. At the correct, careful leaving some parrots are capable to live in your house not one decade.