If you wish to keep your bird in auspicious conditions you have to pay serious attention to its feeding. Pets that live at people's homes in decorative cages usually belong to granivorous birds. But this fact doesn't intend them to eat only seeds. In the natural existence birds vary their nutrition against the time of the year. They can have anything including animal forages, greens, fruits and tree barks. So, feed your bird with large variety of meal and it will be healthy.

Lots of various shops nowadays offer you to get wild bird seed. But you are not to feed your bird only with corn during a whole year because it doesn't really correspond to diverse bird nutrition in nature conditions.

A lot of birds may have the same forage for a long period of time and don't show any signs of an illness. Ornithologists observe such diseases as the abnormality of molt, overweight, disorder of the reproductive function etc. All these occasions are conditional on incorrect feeding of birds. Vitamins and proteins are also needed for the birds' organism because without them various infective diseases can occur.

Grain mixture is the most necessary element in a bird's meal. Diverse sorts of grains (wheat, millet, oats, maize and others) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) should be contained in this blend because it is very helpful for a bird's prosperity. Oil-bearing seeds can be also included. They are sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds, different nuts and others. Obesity may be provoked by oil-yielding crops so you are to give little portions of them to avoid overuse.

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