A full-blown alimentation is one of the main conditions of a successful bird housing. The principal part of the cage pets such as parrots, canaries etc. are considered to be granivorous birds. But it doesn't intend them to eat only seeds. But in truth this sort of birds vary their ration every time of the year in natural conditions. They can have everything including animal forages, vegetables, fruits and tree barks. So keep in mind, that if you want your bird to be robust and healthy you are to feed it with various sorts of forage.

Today you can see a wide variety of wild bird seed in different pet shops. As you see you can't feed your bird a whole year with seeds because it won't harmonize with their natural nutrition.

There are a lot of cases when birds eat the same forage for years and nothing happens, but illnesses not always reveal themselves in a quick way. Ornithologists observe such diseases as the malfunction of molt, obesity, disorder of the reproductive function etc. All these cases are connected with incorrect feeding of birds. Vitamins and proteins are also necessary for the birds' body because without them various infective illnesses will occur.

The main part in a bird's meal must include grain mixture. But the composition of the blend should be of different crops (wheat, oats, millet, maize and so on) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) because it is very important to keep your bird robust. Also you may attach there diverse oil-bearing seeds such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and different nuts. But you are to take care of because the excessive feeding with oil-bearing crops can provoke obesity.

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