Feeding Your Bird Nutritiously

Birds require constant care and a proper nutritious meal to ensure that they live to their full lifespan without having to suffer from constant sickness outbreaks. Therefore, feeding your pet bird nutritiously goes a long way in ensuring that it is lives for a long time and that you will spend less on veterinary care.

Depending on the bird you have, feeding your pet bird nutritiously if it is a small bird should ensure that there are fifty percent of pellets, twenty-five percent of seeds and at the very least twenty five percent of fruits. For much bigger birds for instance parrots, the meal should consist of fifty to sixty percent of pellets and the rest should include some sizable quantity of fruits and some seeds.

To ensure that you are feeding your pet nutritiously, it is always advisable to try out new diets for your bird. Though some can be very picky, a slow introduction with a few treat placed on top of the food are essential in luring the bird to feed on the new meal.

A worthwhile trick of feeding your pet bird nutritiously on new foods is to give them the new dish early in the morning since this is when they are known to forage for food and it will be easy for them to start on something new then. Finally ensure that you feed your pet bird nutritiously by adding some vegetables into the diet. Find out if your bird loves it raw or cooked.

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