Good news!
I come with good news today!
As you might know (if you read my introduction) that Milo is a rescue tiel who came to us with no tail, a plucked neck and shabby feathers. He is a little sweetie at heart, his experience made him quite shy but fiesty inside!
Well a couple of days ago I noticed a feather growing out his tail feathers and it has gotten very long without being phrayed or messed up. I am so happy because the rest of his tail is just of broken feathers and dust from where the breeder kept them, in what I would imagine, poor conditions!
Milo seems to be keeping this one neat and tidy, preening it everyday so I am happy about that!
Also today, the tiels where in my room. They come into my room to play on the play area that I made for them that slots inbetween Charlie and the budgies cage.
However, Charlie and Milo were sitting around, preening when suddenly Coco, my YF2 light green greywing budgie started to chase them around the room. It was so funny and I caught it on camera.
Coco took a fancy to Milo the most and was trying to peck his beak and kiss him!
I even got a few photos - take a look.
A birds diet
A birds diet should consist of about 40% vegtables and fruit, 30% pellets and 30% seeds approximatly.
A good brand of pellets to buy out their would be harrisons bird pellets which comes in: super fine, fine, medium, large and extra large depending on what size bird you have.
Fine - Budgies
Medium - Cockatiels
Large - African greys
Harrisons is good because it is natural and uses natural flavourings and no preservatives like some brands which can harm your bird or it can be very unhealthy for the bird.
An all seed diet can cause complications in a bird because seed is very unhealthy and can lead to things such a liver faliure. So pellets do need to be offered to. It is hard to get a bird to eat pellets so weaning them onto this diet is the only option.
Seed is needed, however, to make sure a birds diet it still healthy so feeding you bird seed is great to. I would recommend tidy mix for the bigger birds as it contains dried fruit and a variety of helahty seeds as well (avaliable only in the UK). If not, cheap seed is ok as it is still natural but just does not contain the extra vitamins!
Vegtable and fruit for your birds is vital to keep them healthy when going through molts or to keep them alive longer! Although a bird with a bad diet can still lead a happy life, a bird with a better diet is much healthier and it can lower complications in the future.
I suggest things such as:
- Sweetcorn
- Broccoli
- Curly kale
- Apple
-Carrots
- Banana
- Rasberries
Please make sure, to lower the risks of illness, that the produce you buy is organic as pesticides pose a big threat to birds and is very toxic.
Avoid foods high in fat, sugar and salt like
-Sunflower seeds (to many can make a bird fat)
-Millet (again to much can make a bird fat)
- Honey/honey sticks (can make a bird fat)
- Chocolate, crisps, chips (toxic and fattening to birds!)
- Avacardos (toxic to birds)
- Green vegtables such as Lettuce can cause watery and green poo in birds so it is best to avoid it.
Hope this helps
Safe branches and food
Safe foods:
- Radishes
- Turnips
- Carrots
- Kale
- Parsley
- Tomato
- Green beans
- Beet (red beet must be peeled)
- Broccoli
- Corn
- Cucumber
- Apples
- Kiwi
- Mango
- Apples
- Banana
- Pears
- Cherries
- Pineapple
- Cranberries
- Grapes
- Apricots
Safe branches:
- Apple tree
- Ash tree
- Birch tree
- Beech tree
- Bamboo tree
- Aspen tree
- Almond tree
- Elm tree
- Fig tree
- Fir tree
- Grape vine tree
- Grape palm tree
Branches to avoid:
- Avacado tree
- Baneberry tree
- Elderberry tree
- Foxglove tree
- Flame tree
- Cherry tree
- Plum tree
Hope this helps.
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