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.

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