Errol Crosbie.
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Revised: Feb 10, 2008

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The Pin-tailed Parrot Finch neither needs live food nor much green food.  Give watercress once or twice a week.
There are very few reports of taking live food even when with chicks.

Always available ad lib

Dry Seed Mix - the Graham Lee/ Dutch seed mix.  

- 8Kg - White Millet
- 7Kg - Plain Canary
- 3Kg - Plate Millet
- 3Kg - Japanese Millet
- 1Kg - Crushed Oats (Pinhead)
- 1Kg - Grass Seed or Bushwacker

 

 

Daily

Eggfood - another Graham Lee/ Dutch mix (24% protein)
- 500 gms - Cede Tropical™
- 500 gms - Cede Normal™
- 150 gms - Proboost™
- 100 gms - Wheatgerm
- 60 gms - Vitamins (Daily Essentials 3™)
- 10 gms - Pro-bird Herbmix™
-5 gms - Spirulina
Needed - grit at all times plus crushed cuttlefish bone mixed with dry vitamins (Daily Essentials 3™). 
Mix will be ignored most of the time but suddenly will be consumed - a sure sign of laying. 
  
Just moistened with orange juice - to bind;

1 teaspoon of juice to 3 tablespoons of eggfood.
The added vitamins ensure laying hens have maximum supplementation.
Two teaspoons of eggfood, daily for 8 - 10 adults.
Increase as required when chicks are being fed.

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Blue-faced Parrot Finches
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Blue-faced Parrot Finch
Feeding & Breeding

 
Soaked seed -
Graham's seed mix (and equal parts of paddy rice?)
2 or 3 tablespoons seems enough for 8 to 10 birds.
Vitamins (Daily Essentials 3™) - added to the soaked seed. 

Other breeders don't use Paddy Rice - successful Dutch breeder hates it. I use EXCEPT when chicks are less than 12 days old. At that age is invariably lethal if parents feed to such young chicks.
Photographs showing the sequential Development of Pin-tailed Parrot Finch chicks are soon....
but before that see the design of The Egg Factory
 
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