Feeding method of young budgerigar cage
A square metal cage with a length of 40cm, a width of 35cm and a height of 35cm should be used, and a drawer-type sand table (excrement pallet) should be set at the bottom of the cage to facilitate the cleaning of excrement. The budgerigar's nest box is a horizontal nest. The size of the nest box is a small rectangular wooden box with a length of 25 cm, a width of 14 cm and a height of 14 cm. There is a partition in the middle, which is divided into an inner room and an outer room. The outer room has a round hole with a diameter of 6 cm, and the partition between the outer room and the inner room also has the same round hole with a diameter of 4 cm, which is the gateway for birds to enter and leave. Clean drinking water should be changed every day, and feces should be cleaned every week 1 time. Be careful not to sunbathe parrots under strong light in summer.
food
The feed is mainly millet and barnyard grass, and some hemp seeds or perilla are also fed, but the dosage should not exceed 10%. In order to ensure the nutrition required by poultry, green vegetables (Chinese cabbage and rape) and inorganic salts (bone meal and oyster meal) should be fed regularly. This kind of bird is resistant to roughage and should not be fed with too much concentrated feed, so as not to cause the deposition of monthly fat and affect egg laying and reproduction.
Pay attention to blowing off the chaff in the food can when feeding. Before feeding, the vegetables should be washed and disinfected (with11000 potassium permanganate solution), drained, and taken out the day after eating the rest. Pay attention to the hygiene in the cage and clean up the sand and feces frequently. Fresh water and water tanks should be scrubbed 1-2 times a day. Although budgerigars are not afraid of cold, low temperature will affect their reproduction, so the indoor temperature should not be lower than 0℃ in winter.
temperature
Keep warm in winter, and the indoor temperature shall not be lower than 16℃. The temperature is high in summer, and ventilation should be strengthened above 30℃. Budgerigars like to eat feed with shells. Usually, they should give priority to millet, barnyard grass, millet or egg millet. They should feed some vegetables, oyster powder or bone meal as regular feed every day (or peck at a whole cuttlefish bone in a cage). The budgerigar reaches sexual maturity at the age of 4 months and begins to mate in estrus, so it can be used as a kind of breeding bird. Budgerigars can breed all year round, and generally can lay 4-7 eggs per nest. The eggs are white, and they lay 1 egg every day or every other day. When the third egg is laid, the female bird begins to hatch in the nest for 18 days.
type
Budgerigar is easy to breed, but it is necessary to avoid hybridization and maintain the purity of this species. For the health of future generations, parent birds of 1-2 years old should be selected. Shortly after mating, the females began to lay eggs, one every other day, and 4-9.
The females never leave the nest after laying eggs until the end of hatching, during which they are all fed by the males. The incubation period is about 18 days. Budgerigar chicks are late adults and cannot live independently within 25 days of hatching, so they are fed by adults. The way for parents to raise chicks is: the male feeds the mother and the mother feeds the chicks. After 28 days of growth, chicks can feed themselves and live independently. Sexual maturity can be achieved after 5-6 months.
Breeding method of budgerigar 1. Activity time of budgerigar
The budgerigar starts singing after about 6 o'clock and stops singing after 7 o'clock in the evening (if it calls at night, it means that it is frightened and leaves quietly, doing nothing). Parrots had better not have light when they are resting, even weak light will affect them. It is recommended to cover the cage with cloth or old clothes. Parrots don't crow in the dark. You can lift the cloth after getting up in the morning without affecting the rest. Parrots have no sense of security in the dark and will fly high to seek security. You can hang a small swing above the cage to facilitate the parrot to rest at night.
2. parrot food
The staple food is millet with shells. Many people feed apples, but my parrot doesn't eat them. Usually eat vegetables, especially lettuce leaves, followed by cabbage, and even eat potted plants such as green radish and mint without vegetables.
3. Others
When I first started to raise parrots, I was most afraid of cleaning up the dishes that received poop, because it was disgusting. Then find a good way to put the old newspaper on the plate and put the cage in a ventilated place, so that the newspaper that picks up poop will be very dry and it will be much more convenient to clean it regularly.
4. How to tell the gender of budgerigar?
A lot of information says it depends on the pattern. In fact, the patterns of many budgerigars are indistinguishable on the surface. Teach you a way to read your mouth. The dark color of the mouth is male and the light color is female.
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