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Feeding
Pin-tailed Parrot Finch Chicks |
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Soaked
seed - I soak Graham
Lee's/ Dutch seed mix
in Aviclens™for 12 hours, drained & left for 12 hours,
disinfected, drained and fed.
Reminder of composition of mix -
8Kg - White Millet
7Kg - Plain Canary
3Kg - Plate Millet
3Kg - Japanese Millet
1Kg - Crushed Oats (Pinhead)
1Kg - Grass Seed or Bushwacker
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Eggfood
- - another Graham Lee/ Dutch mix (24% protein)
Reminder
of composition of mix -
500 gms - Cede Tropical™
500 gms - Cede Normal™
150 gms - Proboost™
100 gms - Wheatgerm
60
gms - Vitamins
10
gms - Pro-bird Herbmix™
5
gms - Spirulina
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Depending
on chick numbers and age, 2 or 3 dishes each containing 2 heaped tablespoons
of soaked seed are available daily per cage,
 ie a daily total of 5 or
6 heaped tablespoons |
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Just
moistened with orange juice - to bind;
1 teaspoon of juice to 3 tablespoons of eggfood |
At day
14 I add Paddy Rice in equal measure to Graham's mix
This is very controversial.
Others don't do this
I find the chicks wean much easier when large soaked/
soft seeds
(Paddy Rice & Groats) are present |
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This mix is put into 2 or 3 small dishes
One or two dishes are given in the morning and 1 is kept in the
fridge for use later in the day |
Bengalese aren't likely to eat paddy rice initially, but it is there for
the fledglings to get used to |
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All
Times - Grit
and crushed cuttlefish/ vitamin mix are available at all times
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Water
- add vitamins, probiotics (BioPlus™),
calcium (Calcivet™) and whatever else you desire After the first week
probiotics might only be given every alternate day |
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A description of Weaning
the Pin-tailed Parrot finch is on the
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