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.
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