If you wish to keep your bird in auspicious conditions you have to pay serious attention to its nourishment. Birds that dwell at people's homes in decorative cages commonly belong to granivorous birds. But it doesn't mean that they have to eat only seeds. In the natural existence birds vary their nourishment against the season. The nourishment may contain animal forage, different vegetables, fruits and tree barks. That is why the diversity of feeds will bring your bird robust.
A lot of various shops today suggest you to purchase bulk bird seed. But you should not feed your bird just with seeds a whole year because it doesn't really conform to diverse bird nutrition in nature.
There are many different cases when birds have the same feed for years and nothing happens, but illnesses not always reveal themselves in a rapid way. But as a rule, the effects of such nutrition can be revealed in the malfunction of molt, obesity, kidney illness and disorder of the reproductive function. And a shortage of vitamins and proteins weakens the defense function of a bird's organism and makes it susceptible to different infective diseases.
So the basis of a bird's meal contains grain blends. It is very significant for birds that the blend must include different kinds of crops (wheat, oats, millet, maize etc) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds and lettuce's seeds). Also you may add there diverse oil-yielding crops such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and various nuts. Overweight can be provoked by oil-yielding seeds so you are to give small doses of them to elude overuse.
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Jun 26 2008 
