There are many kinds of wild birds, but in the artificial feeding environment, the food sources and species are greatly limited. For most birds, we don't know the correct nutritional requirements, but we can choose foods with similar nutritional structure and types to ensure their corresponding nutritional requirements.
1. Energy feed refers to feed with crude fiber content less than 18% and crude protein content less than 20% in dry matter. Energy feed is rich in sugar. Common energy feeds for birds are corn, rice, wheat and sorghum.
(1) Corn has a high energy concentration, and its sugar content is about 85%. It is the most commonly used and important energy feed for birds. In addition, corn also contains 10% protein and 5% fat, which is palatable. There are two kinds of corn: yellow corn and self-corn. Yellow corn seeds contain riboflavin, and yellow corn is often used as bird feed.
(2) The nutritional components of rice are mainly sugar, and its germ is rich in B vitamins, in addition to a moderate amount of fat and protein, which has high nutritional value. Because the rice grain is small, large and medium-sized parrots don't like it very much. When feeding, they can feed rice first, and then feed their favorite food.
(3) The sugar content of wheat is about 96%, crude protein 13% and fat 1.5%. Delicious and easy to digest, it is a common feed for birds such as parrots. In the later period of artificial breeding of parrots, wheat flour with bran is often used as the staple food to feed parrot chicks.
(4) Sorghum is rich in sugar, and it is also the main energy feed commonly used, which is often used for small and medium-sized parrots.
(5) Millet is also called millet, and it is called millet or millet after hulling. It is the most important energy feed for canaries and parrots. Birds whose staple food is plant seeds will skillfully peel off the seeds with their mouths when eating natural plant seeds. Even if millet is fed without shell, birds still seem to want to peel off a layer, but they can't peel it off, which often leads to waste. So it is better to feed these birds with seeds with shells.
(6) Xiaomi is also called Xiaomi and Xiaomi. The grain is bigger than millet, and it is called Dahuang rice after hulling. It is rare in the south, and millet is mainly used.
(7) barnyard grass is also called barnyard grass. It is the seed of weeds in rice fields and is often mixed with millet or millet to feed canaries and parrots.
2. In dry matter, protein feed with crude fiber content below 18% and protein content above 20% belong to two types of protein feed. Protein feed is divided into plant protein feed and animal protein feed. The protein animal feeds commonly used by birds include fish meal, silkworm chrysalis powder, blood powder and so on. Studies on passerine birds show that 8% ~ 9% protein in diet is enough to maintain the balance of weight, energy and nitrogen.
(1) Pea is a kind of protein feed commonly used by omnivorous birds such as thrush, and its protein content accounts for about 20%.
(2) The protein content of soybean is about 35%, which is a good plant protein supplement feed for birds. However, due to the high content of antitrypsin in soybean, it is necessary to cook it before feeding it in order to fully digest and utilize the protein.
(3) Mung beans and red beans, like other beans, are also feed supplements for plants in protein. Among the feed types of large and medium-sized parrots, these two kinds of feed are mainly used to supplement plant protein.
3. Fat feed mainly includes sunflower seeds, pine nuts, hemp seeds, peanuts, perilla seeds, rapeseed and so on. Because this kind of feed is rich in fat and protein, it is generally not suitable for feeding more. For obese birds, this feed should be fed less or not. It is beneficial to increase this kind of feed in winter and molting period. Sunflower seeds and pine nuts are often used as the main feed for parrots.
(1) Sunflower seeds contain 20% fat and 52% sugar. Sunflower seed is a favorite food for large and medium-sized parrots and peony parrots, which is beneficial to prevent dysentery and feces from forming.
(2) Pine nuts are the seeds of pinecones with high fat content. Its particles are large and its shell is hard, which is suitable for feeding large and medium-sized parrots. Because the shell is hard, it is good for parrot beak bees to wear.
(3) Hemp seeds are also called hemp seeds. Its fat content is very high, accounting for 50%. Parrots like to eat, but they should not be fed more.
(4) Perilla frutescens is the seed of Perilla frutescens, including Perilla frutescens and Perilla frutescens. Perilla frutescens is brown and small, commonly known as wild perilla frutescens. Perilla frutescens is larger than Perilla frutescens and is silvery gray. Perilla frutescens is rich in fat and is very popular with birds. It is the main fat additive feed for canary, and the general feeding amount accounts for about 20% of the total feed.
(5) Rapeseed is mainly the seed of rape, which can be properly fed during the molting period of birds such as parrots and canaries, but care should be taken not to feed moldy rapeseed.
4. Green feed The green feed commonly used by birds is mainly various vegetables and fruits. It is rich in vitamins and is an indispensable feed for many birds, especially parrots.
5. Mineral additive feed is to supplement the deficiency of mineral elements in feed. Some industrial synthetic minerals, such as copper sulfate and ferrous sulfate, and natural mineral feeds, such as stone powder, shell powder and bone powder, are often added.
6. Vitamin-added feed mainly refers to various synthetic feed multivitamins. Generally, it is supplemented when there is physiological disorder or deficiency.
(2) Diet preparation
In bird breeding, a single kind of feed can not meet its basic nutritional needs. It is necessary to use feeds with various properties and mix them according to a certain proportion, so that various nutrients can complement each other to meet the needs of bird growth, development and reproduction. When feeding songbirds such as thrush, various feeds are usually crushed and mixed. For parrots, except corn and beans, which are usually soaked in water to soften them before feeding, other feeds such as seeds and fruits are fed directly. The dietary combinations of several pet birds are provided for reference.
1. Thrushcross feed formula contains 40% corn flour, 8% bran, 10% cooked soybean flour, 8% pea flour, 10% peanut flour, 10% silkworm pupa flour, 8% fish meal, 5% bone meal,/.
2. Canary feed formula
(1) The daily feed is millet 20%, millet 20%, barnyard grass 20%, perilla 30% and rapeseed 10%.
(2) In the breeding period and molting period, in addition to the daily feed, 250g of corn flour, 50g of bone meal and 3 eggs can be evenly mixed, evaporated and made into powdered feed for feeding.
In the canary's daily feed, fresh leaves should be supplied, and eggs can be cooked, cut and fed directly during the brooding period.
3. There are more than 300 kinds of parrots, ranging from budgerigar to donkey kong parrot, and most of them feed on plant seeds. Honey-sucking parrots mainly feed on juice, nectar and fruit.
The formula of (1) parrot feed is millet 20%, millet 20%, barnyard grass 10%, rice 20%, wheat 10% and pockmarked 20%. In addition, it is necessary to supplement fresh vegetable leaves, fruits and sand grains, shell grains or cuttlefish bones containing trace elements.
(2) The medium parrot feed formula is 25% millet, 25% millet, 25% wheat and 25% sunflower seeds. In addition, vegetables, fruits, sand grains containing trace elements, shell powder or cuttlefish bones should be supplemented.
(3) Parrot feed formula corn (fresh corn seed, soaked or boiled old corn) 25%, sunflower seed 25%, wheat 20%, mung bean 20%, peanut kernel 10%.
This parrot is very important for the supply of all kinds of fruits, vegetables and non-toxic fresh branches. In addition, shells or cuttlefish bones should also be supplied regularly.
(4) The feed formula of honey-sucking parrot: infant powder 10g, milk powder 10g, raw egg yolk 1g, 20ml of honey and glucose, and 50ml of boiled water.
Dissolve milk powder in boiling water, then add baby powder and stir well. Add egg yolk and honey and stir well. Feed twice a day. In addition, we need apples, pears, grapes, cantaloupes, tomatoes and other fruits, as well as seed food for medium-sized parrots.
(3) Feeding and daily management
Compared with mammals, most birds consume more energy and other nutrients per unit weight. In order to adapt to flight, food stays in the body for a short time, and its vigorous metabolism requires constant eating. Birds, especially birds, can't be deprived of food in one day. For some wild birds, they are suddenly put into small cages from the wild natural environment, and they are afraid because of the psychological pressure brought by various factors. Some of them kept jumping in cages, trying to find opportunities to escape. Older birds often show melancholy and refuse to eat. The latter is more difficult to raise. In addition, birds accustomed to natural food in the wild suddenly become artificial feed, often not knowing that it is their own food, and they need artificial temptation to gradually adapt to eating artificial feed. After that, we should do a good job in every daily management.
The following are the feeding and daily management of some common pet birds:
1. Management of Thrush Birds Because of the beautiful and changeable voice of male thrush, people choose male thrush for breeding. On the premise of confirming that it is a male, it also requires: first, choose a thrush with a large body, a wide chest, a long neck and a square head. Secondly, the mouth should be round and blunt, the tarsal bones should be thick and short, the toes should be thick, and the eyes should be bright and bright. Third, the iris of thrush has many colors. Generally, watercress green and sky blue are the best, and eyebrows need to be wide, white and symmetrical. In addition, the tarsometatarsal bone is fish white and yellow, not old.
Generally, the newly bought thrush is kept in the thrush cage first. Except for the front and bottom, the thrush cage is made of cardboard or bamboo board, which can make the bird quieter. At the beginning of feeding, you can add some broken corn to the artificial feed to induce it to eat. After a period of time, it is transferred to the thrush bright cage for breeding. A bright cage should be covered, and the cover cannot be completely opened until it is completely tamed.
Thrush can be eaten raw or cooked. The nutritional components of raw feed are not easy to be destroyed, but the palatability is poor. At present, the thrush feed on the market is mostly clinker, with high protein and fat, and insufficient trace elements and vitamins. If the breeder prepares his own feed, he can mix all kinds of food evenly according to the requirements of the thrush feed formula, then make the steamed corn-bread, and then dry and crush it, or cut the steamed corn-bread into particles, and then bake or dry it with slow fire. The feed made by this method is delicious and palatable, and thrush likes it. Generally, granular materials are better. It is not easy to cause waste and pollution.
In thrush breeding, we should always achieve "three opening and three closing". That is, open the cage clothes three times in the morning, noon and evening. After a long time, you can get into the habit of opening the cage and starting to sing. In addition, when you open the cage to observe or contact the thrush, you can feed live food such as Tenebrio molitor by hand, and gradually train it to pick up food by hand, which is good for its domestication.
Thrushcross loves water bath, and even the thrush who has just been caught will not refuse. For healthy thrush, take a water bath every day. When taking a bath, put the water basin (generally a rough pottery basin with a diameter of about 25 cm and a height of about 6 cm) in the bath cage. The water depth can be determined according to the weather and the health status of birds, generally 2 ~ 5 cm, and the water temperature should be natural and not artificially adjusted. The bath cage has no bottom, so it should be placed directly on the ground. You also need to put a perch in the bath cage, and then put the thrush in the bath cage, and the bird will take a bath excitedly.
Only the birds who often bathe can keep their feathers clean, because after bathing, every bird will stand on the perch or arrange its feathers on the edge of the bath tray, touch the tail fat gland with its mouth, and smear the fat of the tail fat gland on the feathers of the whole body. It is almost impossible for a healthy thrush who insists on taking a water bath every day to see his feathers soaked by water after taking a water bath. In addition, water bath is also a good exercise for thrush. In a spacious bath cage, flying from one perch to another is equivalent to giving thrush a chance to "fly" in a narrow viewing cage. Also, thrush standing on the rough edge of the basin can rub toes and claws to prevent them from growing too long.
For some thrushes who don't want to take a bath, it's mainly because the water is too deep to go into the water. The solution is to put another heterosexual thrush who can take a bath. Through this thrush's bath, he will arouse his desire to take a bath and will soon jump into the basin to take a bath. Another way is to put some Tenebrio molitor, vegetable leaves or stones in the basin. When they peck at Tenebrio molitor, vegetable leaves or see the stones on the plate, they will know that the water here is not too deep and can gradually induce them to take a bath.
Walking birds is very important for thrush. For the thrush who originally lived in the forest, the ornamental cage lacked effective activity space. In the process of walking the bird, the thrush standing in the swinging cage needs to adjust his posture at any time to keep his balance, and his muscles will contract and relax regularly, so as to achieve the purpose of exercise.
When thrush takes a bath, you can change drinking water. When changing drinking water, you should clean the scale in the glass. More importantly, clean the birdcage. Because the blackbird's feces are dry and attached to the cage wire, the cage bottom and perch can be washed by soaking in clear water for a period of time, and then washed and disinfected once a week. Clean bird cages should be wiped with dry cloth and dried in the shade, not exposed to the sun. In addition, if there is dirt on the edge of the food cup, the feed in the food cup should be emptied, cleaned and dried before putting the food in.
Domesticated male thrush likes singing, especially in estrus in spring. At this time, it is necessary to control the singing time, cover the cage clothes in time, and avoid being dumb.
2. Feeding and Management of Larks: Larks are not gorgeous in feather color, but their songs are loud and melodious, which can imitate the songs of many birds. Especially for elderly bird lovers, they like to listen to their sweet songs, from which they can enjoy the beautiful scenery. Walking birds every morning is also good for their health. There are thousands of larks in China. The most famous lark is the Mongolian lark, which is large in size, beautiful in feathers, loud in cry and good at imitation. It is raised all over the country and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad, just like thrush.
Larks have beautiful voices only in males, so males should be chosen to breed. In addition, we should start feeding from young birds, because larks that have been artificially fed since childhood are willing to be close to people and easy to form. At the same time, we should choose birds with full breasts, tight feathers, bright plumage, high spirits, no feces around the anus and no diseases. Some people think that larks with short tarsal feet, bent toes, round body and thin tail are easy to domesticate.
Young birds also need artificial feeding. The feed consists of mung bean powder, cooked egg yolk and corn flour in a ratio of 5: 3: 2, with appropriate calcium tablets, vitamins A and D, and a little mashed vegetables, which are evenly stirred, added with water to form dough, then ground into small particles by hand and dipped in water for feeding. Feed it every 2 hours until you are full, without water. When chicks start pecking, they need to continue feeding 1 week. After the young bird can peck by itself, put the mixed soft food into the food cup and let it peck without feeding water. When the body shape and feathers are similar to those of adult birds, the adult birds should be provided with feed and drinking water, and the amount of soft food should be gradually reduced until the adult birds are fully fed with feed.
Larks live in arid areas in the north. They are afraid of heat and cold, like dryness, afraid of humidity, good at spreading their wings and walking, and not good at grasping branches. Therefore, they should choose the big lark cage for breeding. Because the lark's hind toes and claws are very long, it is necessary to lay a layer of fine sand at the bottom of the cage, which can not only provide it with a sand bath, but also protect the bird's claws. A circular platform with the height of 10- 15 cm is set in the cage for birds to stand on and sing. Water cups and water cups should be placed in deep but not too big containers. Clean drinking water must be changed every day, and drinking cups can be cleaned every few days. The sand at the bottom of the cage can be cleaned and replaced once a week. In order to keep the cage clean, you can usually use bamboo clips to clip out the feces.
The cage doesn't need to be covered when feeding, but it must be covered when walking the bird or making it sing like other birds. In order to let the lark sing under the lamp at night, it should be covered during the day. In order to avoid mosquito bites in summer night, cover it. Larks are more timid and scared than usual during molting. At this time, we should try to avoid external interference and strengthen feed nutrition. In addition to daily feed, we also need to feed some animal protein feed, such as locusts, breadworms, oil gourd and other live insects. Don't walk the lark intermittently during molting, which can reduce the singing time. Pay attention to intermittent rest during the peak period of singing to avoid excessive fatigue.
Management should keep the cage clean, the feed fresh, the sand pad changed frequently, the feces removed in time, and properly basked in the sun. The training of larks generally has two aspects: one is the singing training on the stage, which requires young birds to form the habit of going on stage from an early age. They can often feed them live food they like on the singing stage, and often poke their feet with bamboo clips to urge them to go on stage. The requirements of lark singing routines in the north and south are slightly different, but they all pay attention to "thirteen sets" (that is, imitation 13 tones). The song of thrush is taboo in the north. According to the custom in the north, it is usually sparrows that disturb the forest, sparrows greet the spring, swallows whisper, hens lay eggs, cats bark, dogs bark, yellowbirds crow, small axles ring, eagles bark, water hyacinths scream, water bells ring and babies chirp red. The second is "sipping" training. The easiest way is to "take" it with an adult lark with a mouth. In order to make the young birds "catchy" and articulate, it is best to hang the adult birds high and keep the environment quiet. If you want to "sip" the songs of birds in nature, you should hang larks where birds sing in the morning and let them listen. A young lark, with a good memory and a good mouth, will catch on in a few days.
3. Feeding and Management of Canary Canary is petite and exquisite in size, with excellent fur color and singing, which is deeply loved by bird lovers at home and abroad. After hundreds of years of artificial breeding, a variety of strains with different postures and different feather colors have been cultivated, and breeders can choose to raise different strains of canaries according to their own preferences. Canary in China mainly includes Shandong species, Yangzhou species, German Rhona species and a few Japanese red feather species.
If the main purpose of keeping canaries is just for viewing, you can choose a separate male bird to keep in a special canary viewing cage. In addition to food cups and water cups, there should also be sand cups that can hold shell powder or sand grains and fruit inserts that can insert fruits and vegetables. If you want to breed, choose a breeding cage with the size of 46 cm× 30 cm× 35 cm. Generally, in the non-breeding period, male and female birds are often kept in separate cages, and a breeding cage can keep several female or male birds. After estrus begins to enter the breeding period, a pair of canaries are raised in breeding cages and artificial nests are provided for them to lay eggs and hatch.
In order to keep the canary's neat feathers and health, we should insist on cleaning the birdcage and water bath every day, especially keeping the habitat and the place where the canary often stands clean, which is extremely important for the health of its toes. To watch the caged canaries, you can take a bath according to the thrush's water bath method. Different from thrush, the water in the bathtub is shallow, so put some leaves in it. In addition, because the canary is delicate, it is not suitable for excessive bathing in cold weather, and the water depth should be controlled.
For several canaries kept in breeding cages, the pollution of their cages is often more serious. Because daily cleaning is a very troublesome thing, many bird owners often clean 1 ~ 2 times a week, and often put the bathtub directly in the cage to take a bath, which is often harmful to the health of canaries. In the water bath, birds splash water around the cage, making the dry feces soft, and then bringing them to other parts of the cage after the toes touch, which often expands the pollution environment. In addition, wet feathers are easier to be polluted because the birdcage is not clean. Therefore, even if it is troublesome, put the bird in a special water bath cage to take a bath. At this time, instead of bathing directly in the breeding cage, it is better to thoroughly clean and disinfect the birdcage, even once a week. In addition, in the soft sunshine, giving proper sunbathing is beneficial to their health.
Mosquito bites are very harmful to canaries in summer. Cover the birdcage with cages or gauze at night to prevent mosquito bites. Canaries begin to shed their feathers after the breeding season. At this time, its physical condition is often very poor and it is easy to get sick. Therefore, in addition to strengthening feed nutrition, we should also reduce water baths and pay attention to cold and warmth.
4. Breeding and Management of Peony Parrots At present, all the peony parrots raised in China are domesticated varieties that have been artificially raised for several generations and have completely adapted to the artificial breeding environment. When people approach, the peony parrot will avoid it, but it won't slam into the cage like a wild bird just caught. Peony parrot is very popular because of its small size, gorgeous feathers and easy feeding. Peony parrots can be raised in groups in aviary, which can not only increase their reproduction, but also play a good ornamental role. At home, they are usually kept in pairs in rectangular metal cages. Because the peony parrot has a strong reproductive ability, in order to make it have enough reproductive space, the bird cage can be made larger, and the length, width and height can be 70 ~ 80 cm, 50 ~ 60 cm and 40 ~ 50 cm respectively. Generally, the size of commercially available metal birdcages is 60 cm× 40 cm× 35 cm. Although it can reproduce, the reproductive effect is not ideal.
Peony parrot takes the seeds of Gramineae as its staple food and likes oily seeds, such as sunflower seeds and pockmarked seeds. Besides, we need to supply all kinds of vegetables and fruits. When feeding, put them in different containers according to the size and nature of food, and put vegetables and fruits in separate containers. If sunflower seeds and millet with larger particles are put in the same container, after pecking rice several times, the millet will sink to the lower part of the container, making it difficult for birds to eat the feed below. When eating, the peony parrot peels off the seed shell before eating the fruit. The peeled seed shell will cover the surface, which will make the initial feeder mistakenly think that there is more food in the food container, thus causing the bird to starve and even die. So remove the shell of food every day. The method is to blow off the shell after pouring out the food, then pour it back into the food container and add some food at the same time.
Because peony parrots like to pick fatty foods such as sunflower seeds and pockmarked seeds, they often leave grains such as millet and millet. The breeder can't add a certain kind of food when he sees it is finished. They should eat as much millet, millet and other foods as possible, that is, they should add them according to the proportion of various foods in their diet every day to maintain the nutritional balance and maintain their health.
Peony parrot also likes water bath. Clear water can be put into a small dish with a diameter of about 1.5 cm and a height of about 4 cm, and directly put into the feeding cage, but it should be kept away from the food container to prevent birds from splashing water into the food container during water bath. The water bath need not be done every day, but once a week.
This herbivorous bird is also easy to splash the peeled seed shells around the cage. In order not to pollute the environment, kraft paper can be used to pad under the cage and above the food container, and it can be replaced in time. It is best to have a plastic drawer or an iron drawer at the bottom of the cage, which can be taken out to hold sand. The whole birdcage, perch and food container should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected once a week. Before cleaning the cage, transfer the bird to another spare cage.
5. The breeding and management of sunflower cockatoos belong to medium-sized parrots, which are relatively large in size. The most suitable breeding environment is a spacious aviary, which ensures enough activity space. Families with conditions can use large metal cages with the size of 90cm× 60cm× 120cm. Sunflower cockatoo's beak is strong and has the habit of biting people, so the metal cage wire should be thick, the diameter should be above 5 mm, the cage net length should be 10 cm and the short diameter should be 3 cm.
At present, many farmers in China put sunflower parakeets on shelves, and there are many hidden dangers in long-term shelf culture. Parrots always hold bird racks with the same diameter, so they have no more freedom except to eat. Because all kinds of behavioral requirements are not met, mental disorders often occur due to psychological pressure, such as biting a certain part of the bird frame hard, and some even bite their own feathers, causing their own injuries. For this reason, the breeder should often contact and play with the parrots raised on the shelf, such as scratching them with their hands, tidying their feathers, feeding them their favorite food often, and providing fresh and nontoxic branches for them to chew, which can minimize their mental stress.
In addition, often taking a bath with water, it will spread its wings excitedly and receive spraying, which not only meets its psychological requirements, but also is extremely beneficial to the health care of feathers. For non-artificial breeding parrots, they are wild and easily frightened. It is a good domestication method to contact them with the above methods. As long as we persist in doing everything well, wild parrots will gradually become docile and willing to contact people. For captive parrots, although they are provided with space for climbing and other activities, they also need to meet other physiological and psychological requirements, such as providing fresh branches, providing them with water bath conditions, and setting movable annual rings.
Sunflower cockatoo is a tropical bird, but it also has strong cold tolerance. In the south, healthy birds can spend the winter completely, and for birds with poor constitution, appropriate warm-keeping equipment can be provided. In the north of China, there are heating facilities at home, which can completely solve the problem of keeping warm.
In order to keep birds healthy and their feathers white, it is necessary to do a good job of daily cleaning. For cockatoos raised on the shelf, if there is a dung tray on the lower part of the bird shelf, it needs to be cleaned daily. Parrots often stand on the edge of food containers except their habitats, which are often polluted and should be kept clean. The length of the metal chain from the tarsal part of the bird to the perch should be less than the straight line distance from the perch to the manure tray. If the chain is too long, birds will stand on the dung tray and pollute their toes, thus polluting their habitats and food containers. It is difficult to clean the birdcage of cockatoo. When designing a birdcage, we can consider installing a movable excrement tray at the bottom. The aperture of the metal mesh on the stool plate can be larger, and the stool plate can be filled with sterilized river sand or sawdust. During daily cleaning, the river sand with excrement can be removed, supplemented and disinfected in time. Facilities such as habitats and food containers should also be cleaned and disinfected regularly.
6. Feeding and management of big breasted parrots. Parrot with big breast is very popular because of its moderate size, intelligence and strong tongue learning ability. Because the main purpose of raising Sichuan parrots is to teach them to learn human language, it is better to raise them from nest chicks. This kind of parrot, raised artificially since childhood, is docile and likes to get in touch with people. If the brood is too small and the whole body has only feathers, it is necessary to make a 40 cm× 30 cm× 40 cm incubator with incandescent lamps in it. The bottom of the box can be covered with soft toilet paper, which can be taken out in time after being polluted by feces, and then replaced or added. Incandescent lamps can be located near one side and slightly higher, so it is advisable not to touch the chicken when it looks up. Whether the temperature is suitable or not can be judged by observation: chicks will contract when the temperature is low; If the temperature is too high, the chicks will stretch their necks and open their mouths to breathe; At the right temperature, the chicks are quiet and sleepy. With its growth and development, it is necessary to gradually reduce the temperature until it is consistent with the external environment temperature.
Chicken feed can be made of 3 parts of wheat flour with bran, 1 part of corn flour and 1 part of cooked soybean flour, with appropriate amount of cooked egg yolk, bone meal and vitamins a and d, then mixed with water and kneaded into granules. The size of the particles can be determined according to the size of the chicken. In order to facilitate swallowing, the granules can be lubricated with water, but it should be noted that the granules should not be too soft, otherwise improper feeding will cause throat blockage and suffocation. After the chicks are basically plump, they should learn to eat adult feed, which is the feed for medium-sized parrots. When young parrots learn to eat, they often don't have enough to eat, and they need to feed their chicks artificially for a period of time. The transition from chicken feed to adult feed should be gradual, and gradually reduce the feeding frequency and quantity until you learn to feed yourself completely.
The traditional breeding habit in China is to raise parrot chicks on shelves. For parrots that have just been put on shelves, it is not advisable to hang them too high. The distance between the bracket and the ground is slightly higher than the length of the anklet, so when the parrot leaves the bracket, it is advisable to stand on the ground with a foot that is not placed on the anklet. This is because the parrot that has just been put on the shelf often doesn't turn around and fly back to the shelf after flying down from the shelf. It is very dangerous to hang the bird rack too high. After a while, when he is familiar with it and can fly back from the bird frame (commonly known as the "back chain"), he can hang it in a higher place.
For parrots that have just been put on shelves, it is often the stage of learning to eat. Before they learn to eat completely, they can mainly feed on fresh corn. If there is no fresh corn, you can feed them with steamed or soaked corn kernels, and then gradually add some other feed. The feeding management of adult Sichuan parrots can refer to the feeding management requirements of sunflower cockatoos. Unlike sunflower parrots, Sichuan parrots are more tolerant of coarse grains and have more extensive management of them.