A full-fledged feeding is one of the main conditions of a successful bird housing. Birds that dwell in people's houses in ornamental cages usually belong to granivorous birds. And as a result many persons think that such birds should eat only seeds. Every time of the year birds differentiate their nourishment owing to their purposes when they live in nature. The ration may include animal feed, different vegetables, fruits and tree barks. So, feed your bird with large diversity of forage and it will be robust.

A lot of different shops nowadays offer you to buy bird seed. You are to take care of your birds and create natural conditions for them. That is why you are to feed them with various kinds of forage during the year.

There are a lot of cases when birds have the same feed for years and nothing happens, but illnesses not always reveal themselves in a quick way. Ornithologists observe such illnesses as the malfunction of molt, obesity, disorder of the reproductive function etc. All these cases are conditional on wrong feeding of birds. And a lack of vitamins and proteins weakens the defense reaction of a bird's body and makes it susceptible to various infective diseases.

Grain mixture is the most important element in a bird's meal. It is very significant for birds that the mixture should include various sorts of crops (wheat, oats, millet, maize etc) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds and lettuce's seeds). Also you can add there different oil-bearing crops such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and different nuts. Obesity may be provoked by oil-bearing seeds so you are to give small portions of them to avoid overdose.

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