How to feed the canaries-Main feed | CANARY BIRDS

How to feed the canaries-Main feed | CANARY BIRDS 

   As the main feed , as canaries are granivorous birds, a specially formulated grain mixture is used . The modern zoo market offers a fairly extensive selection of feeds of various companies and purposes. Here I would like to draw special attention to the fact that the mixture purchased should be designed specifically for canaries ! Not for singing and exotic birds, nor, especially, for parrots - only for canaries.

   You should also pay attention to the purpose of the feed. It should be basic , that is, everyday. A fairly large number of special mixes are found on the market: to improve the flow of molting, for the intensity of color during the molting period, for improving the singing, for feeding during the breeding season, nestling chicks, etc. - this is what you do not need now! The first thing we do is get regular, everyday food that the bird will eat every day.

      And again there is a dilemma, which kind of food, and which manufacturer is better to choose from a rather extensively represented range? We present the main characteristics of feed, which should preferably be present in your chosen mixture.

Feed must be hermetically sealed.is packed. This is a necessary requirement, since even a very good quality cereal mixture must be transported and stored before reaching you. To be absolutely sure that all this was done correctly and without violating elementary requirements, unfortunately, is not possible. For example: at high humidity in a room where not hermetically packed food was stored, it can be contaminated with a micro fungus, to which the cardboard walls of the package, especially if it is not tight enough “fitted”, is not an obstacle "The bread, carefully wrapped in a plastic bag," gets "into the refrigerator, into a seemingly tightly closed jar with blanks ..., in short, in every way" pests "). 

Why is such an unpretentious bird fungus dangerous? Multiplying on the grain (as a nutrient substrate) and subsequently getting into the bird's body, it affects the respiratory and digestive organs, causing mycoses, poisoning and other troubles. Of course, not the fact that this trouble must happen with your canary. But it is still better to exclude this possibility altogether. (For your information, many canomenoders, who themselves make up the mixture for their birds, “in the old manner” still all the grain are “fried” in the oven without fail! And this is not just a whim). And it is very, very sad that many of our domestic manufacturers do not pay enough attention to this problem yet. that this trouble must necessarily happen to your canary.

 But it is still better to exclude this possibility altogether. (For your information, many canomenoders, who themselves make up the mixture for their birds, “in the old manner” still all the grain are “fried” in the oven without fail! And it is very, very sad that many of our domestic manufacturers do not pay enough attention to this problem yet. 

that this trouble must necessarily happen to your canary. But it is still better to exclude this possibility altogether. (For your information, many canomenoders, who themselves make up the mixture for their birds, “in the old manner” still all the grain are “fried” in the oven without fail! And this is not just a whim). And it is very, very sad that many of our domestic manufacturers do not pay enough attention to this problem yet.

When purchasing a bird from a breeder, do not forget to ask what kind of food the bird is accustomed to. The fact is that canaries are rather conservative in their preferences: abrupt change of food that has become habitual can cause nervous stress, indigestion and, as a result, diarrhea. It is very good if the breeder (or the seller on the market) gives you a small amount of his feed so that you, gradually replacing it (this is done like this: only a small part of the new feed is added to the daily rate of the grain mixture, the next day - a little more and the old mixture is gradually completely replaced by a new one so that the bird has time to get used to it. Usually, the process of complete "replacement" occurs within a week), the bird is transferred to the mixture that you plan to feed your pet in the future.

When purchasing a cereal mixture, as, indeed, any other products intended for feeding canaries, be sure to look at the expiration date ! If it has expired (this, too, alas, occurs) or ends earlier than your canary can use it - do not purchase such feed! 

• Nothing good will come of it. If you cannot find the release date on the packaging: feel free to ask the seller to help you. If he is “kind of like,” too, he cannot find it, or you have any suspicions regarding this period, it is better to buy feed elsewhere.