If you wish to keep your bird in favorable conditions you have to pay serious attention to its feeding. Usually the main part of the cage birds such as parrots, canaries etc. are used to be granivorous birds. Owing to the name of the species people feed them only with seeds, that is not correct. But in truth such birds vary their food every season in natural conditions. Birds like to diversify their meal with different sorts of animal forages, greens, fruits, tree barks etc. So keep in mind, that if you want your bird to be robust and healthy you are to feed it with various kinds of meal.

A lot of various shops today suggest you to get bulk bird seed. But you should not feed your bird just with corn a whole year because it doesn't really correspond to different bird nutrition in nature conditions.

From the first view you can not indicate any illness after feeding your bird with the same meal for years. But with some time illnesses will be shown. Ornithologists observe such diseases as the abnormality of moult, overweight, disorder of the reproductive function etc. All these cases are conditional on incorrect feeding of birds. Vitamins and proteins are also needed for the birds' organism because without them various infective illnesses can appear.

So the main part of a bird's meal contains grain mixtures. It is highly important 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-yielding seeds may be also included. They are sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds, diverse nuts and others. Overweight may be provoked by oil-yielding seeds so you are to give small portions of them to avoid overdose.

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