To make the pet parrot feel goodhe kept bright rainbow plumage and pleased his hosts with carefree chirping, he needed proper care and healthy food. Experienced breeders try to diversify the diet in order to bring it closer to natural food. How to feed a parrot at home?
Necessary nutritious grain mixes, variousdelicacies for domestication and encouragement, useful additives to the feed are selected in accordance with the needs of the pet. The most popular breed among bird lovers - wavy parrot and lovebird. With all the similarities in the content of their needs are different. Therefore, allowable rations should be considered separately.
How to feed a wavy parrot
The basis of the diet is grain.For small birds it is, first of all, all types of millet: red, white, yellow and black. Wheat and oats should be up to 30% of the daily requirement. In addition, the necessary seeds canary, hemp and flax. An adult healthy parrot should eat two teaspoons of corn a day. Females during the breeding period and youngsters eat a little more.
Before putting the grain mixture into the feeder,check for trash, insects and unpleasant odors. Grained grain before use must be washed and dried at room temperature. Ready-made feeds make parrot care much easier. Proven manufacturers offer environmentally friendly processed grain, properly formulated mixtures, peeled oats and wheat. When buying, you should carefully examine the label where the composition of the mixture is written. Vitaminized and iodized, as well as feed with additives for the brightness of the pen should be used with caution, only during the molting period, or as a therapeutic diet.
Sprouting helps to check the freshness of the feed.A pinch of grain is soaked in water for 24 hours. Wrapped in a damp cotton cloth or gauze. The closed container with grains is left in a warm place. If after a day or two sprouts appear, the grain is fresh. You can safely feed the bird with both proven grain and sprouts. They are better absorbed, rich in vitamins and amino acids, have a good effect on digestion. Sprouted feed can be offered in small quantities every day.
Another kind of soft food - cereal (no milk,oils, salt and sugar) or simply steamed grains. You can use buckwheat, oatmeal, corn porridge and brown rice. It is important to have a separate tank for soft feed and remove residues in time.
A parrot bought in a store, and not from a breeder, is certainly not accustomed to such a delicacy. A new product should be introduced into the diet gradually, in small portions.
Juicy forages
What can feed a parrot, except feed? Every day he should receive fresh produce. Fruits, vegetables and herbs are an important source of vitamins, microelements and fiber.
What can feed a parrot from vegetables:
- carrot;
- squash;
- melon;
- pumpkin;
- milk corn;
- beans;
- green pea.
What feed fruit parrots:
- an Apple;
- pear;
- banana;
- grapes;
- peach;
- apricot;
- seasonal berries.
In the summer, fruits and berries are given fresh, in the winter - steamed dried fruits and well-warmed frozen preparations.
What herbs can be added to the diet:
- dandelion;
- salad;
- spinach;
- radish tops;
- alfalfa;
- scalded nettle;
- clover;
- young oats;
- chicory;
- weed seeds, such as quinoa, in spikelets;
- domestic plants - Tradescantia, Chlorophytum, Kalanchoe.
Succulent feed offer small portions inindividual containers. To make the parrot more interesting, you can string pieces of fruit and vegetables on a skewer and hang it on the bars of a cage. Sprigs of green is also better to place higher. So the bird does not stain the treat. Juicy food should not be in a cage for more than two or three hours, especially in summer, as chopped fruits and vegetables deteriorate quickly.
What is tourrol
This is fine gravel, sand, or crushed shell rock.necessary for filling goiter. Since birds do not have teeth, the process of grinding food occurs in the muscle stomach. The pebbles that the bird swallows are quickly erased and go out along with the digested food. It is necessary to constantly fill the goiter with new ones. Therefore, the parrot needs to daily fill in a separate feeder mineral supplement.
In addition to touring, it may contain chalk, coal, bone meal and sulfur. Ready mixes are sold in pet stores. On your own, you can make such a mixture of calcined sand, chalk and eggshell.
As a source of easily digestible calcium, sepia is very useful, that is, the shell of a cuttlefish. Pecking up the crumbs of a shell from a large piece, a parrot can grind off a fast-growing beak.
To care for the beak use a specialmineral stone or young twigs of trees. They are offered along with the bark and kidneys. Useful birch, cherry, lime and apple shoots. Conifers, bird cherry, acacia, lilac, oak can cause poisoning. They are best avoided.
Treats to encourage
During the period of domestication and training of the parrot are neededsmall pieces of attractive feed. With their help, you can lure the bird into your arms or encourage for imitation of speech and various tricks. How can you feed a parrot with your hand?
В качестве угощения отлично подойдут сочные pieces of fruit. You can buy special egg biscuits or biscuits with seeds, grains, dried fruits in the store. They have nothing to do with human baking. They are safe for digestion in small quantities. If the parrot has received a nutritional treat, the amount of feed can be slightly reduced.
In order to diversify everyday life and entertainparrots, feed manufacturers offer treats on sticks that can be hung in a cage. It is important to understand that you can not completely replace the daily diet delicacies, even the most useful. Do not get involved and perekormlivat bird with it. At home, the parrot is difficult to spend the extra calories.
Hazardous products
How to feed a wavy parrot can not?The first thing to avoid is human food. Salty, sweet, sour, fatty and flour delicacies are completely excluded. In birds, the stomach is too sensitive, so even an excess of fat-containing seeds (sunflower, flax, etc.) can lead to a serious breakdown.
Soft food should not be hot or cold.
Spicy and spicy vegetables and herbs should be avoided.This is onion, garlic, radish, radish, eggplant, celery, parsley, dill. Sour fruits can cause frustration, and such as mango, persimmon, avocado - the most severe poisoning.
Rules for the maintenance and feeding of birds
В природе птицы находят для себя очень varied food, eaten during the day in small portions. Therefore, it is important to monitor what parrots feed at home. Unbalanced feed can cause serious illness. Feeders and drinkers should be cleaned daily from yesterday’s residues and filled with grain mixture, pieces of succulent fodder, gravel and water. Fasting more than five hours is dangerous for a parrot.
The cage tray is also regularly cleaned with an odorless detergent. Tropical birds are very susceptible to infections.
For the health of the parrot is not only importantdiet, but also the right exercise. In the absence of movement and low activity, obesity and all diseases associated with it are possible. It is necessary to keep the parrot in a fairly spacious cage with various projectiles for acrobatic exercises.
The tame bird can be released from the cage.flight and communication. At the same time, it is necessary to observe safety rules: close windows, doors, turn off gas and heating devices, remove toxic substances from plants, plants and other dangerous things. Parrots are very curious and can taste completely inappropriate things.
What feed parrots during molting?In the offseason, the parrot behaves restlessly and seems unhealthy, the plumage thins and dims. This is due to the change of feather and hormonal activity. During this period, you should support the body with vitamins and increase the amount of succulent feed in the diet. Vitamin supplements can be given only on the recommendation of a veterinarian.
What feed lovebirds parrots
Large body mass determines high energy consumption. A lovebird eats 4 teaspoons of food per day. The main features of the diet - in the composition of the grain mixture and soft food rich in protein.
Owners should be given maximum attention.to what medium-sized parrots are fed, because the quality and longevity of pets depends on it. The grain mix for lovebirds contains up to 50% wheat and oats, several types of sunflower seed, nuts. Fat-containing ingredients should be no more than 15%. In addition, food of animal origin is recommended in small amounts: cottage cheese, boiled egg, milk.
In the use of juicy food, treats and gastrolit in the content of lovebirds there are no features. For them, the same products and additives are suitable as for wavy parrots.
