If you want to keep your bird in favorable conditions you are to pay serious attention to its feeding. Birds that dwell in people's houses in ornamental cages usually belong to granivorous birds. But it doesn't mean that they have to eat only seeds. Every season birds diversify their nourishment owing to their necessities when they dwell in nature. Birds like to vary their meal with various sorts of animal forages, vegetables, fruits, tree barks and so on. So bear in mind, that if you want your bird to be robust and healthy you are to feed it with different kinds of forage. Nowadays you can see a broad variety of bird seed in different pet shops. As you see you can't feed your bird a whole year with seeds because it won't harmonize with their natural nutrition. There are many different cases when birds have the same forage for years and nothing happens, but diseases not always reveal themselves in a rapid way. Scientists observe such diseases as the malfunction of molt, overweight, disorder of the reproductive function etc. All these occasions are conditional on wrong feeding of birds. Vitamins and proteins are also necessary for the birds' organism because without them various infectious illnesses may appear. So the basis of a bird's ration consists of grain blends. Diverse sorts of crops (wheat, millet, oats, maize and others) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) should be contained in this blend because it is very useful for a bird's health. Of course there should be oil-bearing crops such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seed and various nuts. Obesity can be provoked by oil-bearing crops so you are to give small portions of them to avoid overuse. |