If you want to keep your bird in favorable conditions you have to pay serious attention to its nourishment. Usually the main part of the cage birds such as parrots, pigeons etc. are used to be granivorous birds. Due to the name of the species people feed them only with seeds, that is not right. But in truth such birds vary their ration each time of the year in natural conditions. Birds like to diversify their meal with different sorts of animal forages, vegetables, fruits, tree barks and so on. So bear in mind, that if you want your bird to be strong and healthy you are to feed it with various sorts of forage.

Lots of various stores today offer you to purchase wild bird seed. You are to look after your birds and create natural conditions for them. That is why you are to feed them with different kinds of feed during the year.

There are many different cases when birds eat the same feed for years and nothing occurs, but illnesses not always show themselves in a quick way. As a result a bird may be sick with various types of diseases such as obesity, kidney illness, disorder of the reproductive function and a lot of others. Vitamins and proteins are also necessary for the birds' organism because without them various infective diseases may occur.

Grain mixture is the most necessary part in a bird's ration. Different sorts of grains (wheat, millet, oats, maize and others) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) should be included in this mixture because it is really useful for a bird's prosperity. Also you may add there diverse oil-yielding seeds such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and various nuts. But these kinds of seeds should be attached in a small amount because overuse of oil-yielding seeds is the reason of obesity.

Each bird has its own normal daily amount of food so you are to follow that portions should not exceed the norm. You can see that a canary would have only one teaspoon per day and Cockatiel Parakeet's standard is one tablespoonful.

Fresh forage contains various greeneries, wild herbage, fruits, vegetables, also fresh leaves and branches of trees. Besides, animal feed should be added to a bird's meal. Eggs in a boiled condition, nonfat curds or small amount of fatless minced meat can be added in a bird's meal. You must give such forages to your bird one time a week, but in molt period it will be two times a week and if it is a period of breeding - give it every day. Pieces of chalk or small stones must be also added in an extra feeder in a bird's cage. They contain calcium and important for good digestion of a bird.

We are to mention that birds want a spacious cage. Nowadays a lot of pet stores and web sources may suggest you to get cages if you incline to bird homes.

Also you may buy different wild bird feeders in our shop if you like to feed birds in your court or from the window.