If you wish to keep your bird in auspicious conditions you are to pay serious attention to its nourishment. The principal part of the cage pets such as parrots, canaries etc. are considered to be granivorous birds. And as a result many people used to think that such birds are to eat only seeds. In the natural conditions birds vary their nutrition against the time of the year. The nourishment may include animal forage, different vegetables, fruits and tree barks. That's why the variety of feeds will keep your bird robust.

Today you can see a broad diversity of bulk bird seed in different pet shops. But you should not feed your bird only with seeds during a whole year because it doesn't really conform to different bird nourishment in nature.

From the first view you may not indicate any illness after feeding your bird with the same meal for years. But with time illnesses will be revealed. But as a rule, the consequences of such nourishment can be shown in the abnormality of molt, obesity, kidney illness and disorder of the reproductive function. Vitamins and proteins are also needed for the birds' organism because without them different infective illnesses can appear.

So the main part of a bird's ration consists of grain mixtures. It is highly significant for birds that the blend should include various kinds of grains (wheat, oats, millet, maize etc) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds and lettuce's seeds). Oil-bearing crops can be also contained. They are sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds, different nuts and others. Obesity may be provoked by oil-bearing seeds so you are to give little doses of them to avoid overuse.

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