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A full-fledged feeding is one of the main conditions of a successful bird housing. Pets that dwell in people's houses in ornamental cages commonly belong to granivorous birds. But it doesn't mean that they have to eat only seeds. Every season birds diversify their nourishment owing to their necessities when they dwell in nature. The nourishment can contain animal forage, different greens, fruits and tree barks. So bear in mind, that if you want your bird to be strong and healthy you are to feed it with various kinds of meal.

Lots of different stores today suggest you to get bird seed. You are to take care of your birds and create natural conditions for them. That is why you are to feed them with different kinds of feed during the year.

From the first view you can not indicate any illness after feeding your bird with the same meal for years. But with some time diseases will be revealed. As a result a bird may be sick with various kinds of diseases such as overweight, kidney illness, disorder of the reproductive function and a lot of others. And a shortage of vitamins and proteins weakens the safeguard reaction of a bird's organism and makes it sensitive to different infectious diseases.

So the basis of a bird's meal consists of grain mixtures. Different sorts of crops (wheat, millet, oats, maize and others) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) must be included in this blend because it is very helpful for a bird's prosperity. Also you may add there different oil-yielding seeds such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and different nuts. But you are to take care of because the excessive feeding with oil-bearing crops can provoke obesity.

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