Pet Bird Food

You are what you eat. This applies to birds and humans. The pet bird food, you want to use is essential to have a healthy and long living bird.

The only problem with birds is the food that we do not really know what each kind or type of birds nutritional requirements. The more time passes, the more we learn. 

Birds go into 2 categories in the past. They were the seed eaters and meat eaters. Since then, a more expensive variety were used. Fruit and vegetables given to birds now. That is, if they want to eat them. Like us humans, that much of a good thing is just general bad. Variety is the key.

A bird has the fastest metabolism of all animals. This means that they need more energy just to stay healthy and in good shape.

Simply provide a wide variety of healthy foods for pet birds feed. Commercial bird feed, which has been formulated to keep it small or big guy healthy is available and recommended to feed your bird.

You should also familiarize yourself with the birds' natural habitat. By knowing this you can figure out what the bird would eat during the season.

A bird's natural feeding behavior is to search for food in the morning. They eat what they can and keep the rest in a "crop". This crop stores the food, so the bird to fly to a place that is safe from predators to digest food. If you keep pet birds feed or organic pet bird food in the cage all the time, the bird is not its natural eating habits. This can result in that the bird is bored and is very picky about his food.

Here are some tips to overcome boredom.

Put vegetables on a pole or stick. The bird will have to keep it to keep it from moving around while they eat. Lace the food between his cage bars. The bird must unlace the food to eat it. You can cram food into all crevices of a pine cone. The bird will have to forage to get the food out of it, as it has in nature.

Do not think birds food to respond to dog and cat food. In other words. Do not let the dog and cat food exotic birds feed. Just do not feed a bird of this type of food. It will have harmful effects on bird health.