1. What do young cockatiels eat?
1. Unweaned young birds
Before weaning, the cockatiel can be fed millet porridge. After the millet is cooked until soft and rotten, put it in half temperature When hot, you can feed the parrot with a small wooden stick or ground bamboo skewer. If the parrot is unwilling to eat millet porridge, you can also buy parrot milk powder and feed it with water. The temperature of milk powder brewing should be controlled at about 38-40 degrees. If the temperature is too high, it may burn the parrot’s crop. If the temperature is too low Parrots may refuse to eat or interfere with digestion.
2. Young birds after weaning
The diet of parrots after weaning is mainly bird food and nourishing pills. Three servings of fruits, vegetables, egg yolks and cuttlefish bones to supplement nutrition.
When feeding parrots, pay attention to eating less and more meals, and let them eat until they are 80% full each time, so as to avoid the accumulation of food in the parrot’s crop. In addition, do not give the parrot food with salt, sugar and other flavoring agents, otherwise it will have a serious impact on the parrot’s health.
Second, rearing environment of young cockatiels
young birds It is best to keep the temperature of the breeding environment at around 20-26 degrees, because the wings of the young birds are not plump enough, the resistance is poor, and the environment temperature is too low, and it is easy to catch a cold. Adult birds are generally kept at about 20 degrees. Healthy adult black phoenixes can survive at room temperature of 10-37 degrees, but pay attention to the temperature difference not too large, and do not let parrots stay in the air conditioner or in the summer. Keep blowing in front of the fan, otherwise it will easily cause the parrot to catch a cold.
In addition, the bird cage should be kept clean and hygienic, and the parrots should be cleaned regularly. Fortunately, the cages should be disinfected regularly to reduce bacterial reproduction and cause the parrot to infect the parrot.
Finally, if the parrot’s food and water are not finished every day, they should be thrown out in time and replaced with fresh ones. You can put a little less next time. The spoiled food and dirty water in the past are important to cause the parrot to get sick and diarrhea. factors that must be paid attention to.
