If you wish to keep your bird in favorable conditions you are to pay serious attention to its feeding. Birds that live at people's homes in ornamental cages usually belong to granivorous birds. Owing to the name of this sort of birds people used to feed them only with seeds, that is not right. Every season birds differentiate their meal owing to their necessities when they live in nature. The ration can include animal forage, different greens, fruits and tree barks. So keep in mind, that if you want your bird to be strong and healthy you are to feed it with various kinds of forage.

Today one may purchase bulk bird seed practically everywhere, even on the web. You are to look after your birds and create natural conditions for them. That's why you are to feed them with various sorts of forage during the year.

A lot of birds may eat the same meal for a long time and don't reveal any symptoms of a disease. As a rule a bird may be sick with different types of illnesses such as overweight, kidney disease, disorder of the reproductive function and a lot of others. Vitamins and proteins are also needed for the birds' body because without them various infective diseases may occur.

Grain mixture is the most important element in a bird's ration. Diverse sorts of grains (wheat, millet, oats, maize and others) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) must be contained in this blend because it is really useful for a bird's health. Also you can add there diverse oil-bearing crops such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and various nuts. But you are to take care of because the excessive feeding with oil-yielding crops can provoke obesity.

Every bird has its own normal everyday quantity of food so you are to follow that portions must not increase the norm. Budgerigars should have 2 teaspoons per day and in the same time macaw needs 4 tablespoonfuls each day.

Fresh feed contains different greeneries, wild herbage, fruits, vegetables, also fresh leaves and branches of trees. And, of course you have to include animal forage to the bird's ration. You can feed your bird with boiled hen's eggs, nonfat curds and small amount of minced meat. You should give such feeds to your bird once a week, but in moult period it will be two times a week and if it is a period of breeding - give it every day. In the bird's cage should be also present a feeder with chalk or small stones, they are important for a normal digestion.

Also it is important to provide a bird with a large cage. If you incline to bird houses you can buy them at any pet shop nowadays.

Also you may buy diverse window bird feeders in our store if you like to feed birds in your yard or from the window.