If you wish to keep your bird in auspicious conditions you have to pay serious attention to its nourishment. Usually the cage birds are a kind of granivorous ones they can be parrots, canaries, pigeons etc. Owing to the name of this sort of birds people used to feed them only with seeds, that is not correct. Every time of the year birds diversify their nourishment due to their necessities when they live in nature. The ration can include animal forage, different greens, fruits and tree barks. So, feed your bird with large diversity of forage and it will be healthy.
Today you can see a broad diversity of bulk bird seed in different pet shops. You are to look after your birds and make natural conditions for them. That is why you have to feed them with various kinds of feed during the year.
From the first view you can not discover any illness after feeding your bird with the same meal for years. But with time diseases will be revealed. But as a rule, the consequences of such nutrition can be revealed in the abnormality of moult, obesity, kidney illness and disorder of the reproductive function. Vitamins and proteins are also needed for the birds' organism because without them different infective diseases will occur.
Grain blend is the most necessary part in a bird's meal. But the composition of the blend should be of different grains (wheat, oats, millet, maize and so on) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) because it is very significant to keep your bird healthy. Also you may add there diverse oil-yielding seeds such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and different nuts. But you are to be careful because the excessive feeding with oil-yielding seeds can be a reason of overweight.
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