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Other questions on NutriBird handrearing food
1. For the handrearing of my parrots, I use NutriBird A 21. Because one bird had difficulties with its digestion, I consulted a veterinarian. He detected some yeast cells in the crop. Can this be caused by the foods?
2. I use NutriBird A 21 for handrearing my Pionus baby-parrots. Sometimes the floor covering colours red.
How can blood get into the droppings?
3. Can one also breed young insectivorous birds with NutriBird handrearing foods? Which kind should I use then?
4. Can NutriBird A 21 be used as a substitute for eggfoods for canaries and/or exotic birds with young?
5. Which handrearing foods should I use to raise young British finches?
6. I breed all kinds of small exotics (parrotfinches, firetails...). I sometimes handrear a few specimens with NutriBird A 21.
How do I get the birds to eat on their own at weaning age?
1. For the handrearing of my parrots, I use NutriBird A 21. Because one bird had difficulties with its digestion, I consulted a veterinarian. He detected some yeast cells in the crop. Can this be caused by the foods?
To raise the nutritional value of the NutriBird handrearing foods, various natural yeasts (baking yeast, brewer's yeast) are incorporated. These yeast cells can be identified microscopically in the crop and are 'in fact' not distinguishable from the pathogenic yeast cells which may be present in the crop. Care should be exercised here, particularly when it has been established that the bird suffers from a yeast infection in the crop.
2. I use NutriBird A 21 for handrearing my Pionus baby-parrots. Sometimes the floor covering colours red.
How can blood get into the droppings?
This red colour can indeed come from blood present in the droppings (e.g. intestinal invagination, certain intestinal infections).
It is also possible that the red colouring is caused by a chemical reaction between certain substances in the droppings (e.g. iron metabolites, β-carotene, iodium compounds) and substances in the floorcovering (such as white paper or wood shavings).
In some species of the families of the Pionus and Amazon parrots, the presence of normal metabolic products in the urine tends to give a dark wine-red colour.
3. Can one also breed young insectivorous birds with NutriBird handrearing foods? Which kind should I use then?
NutriBird handrearing foods may indeed be used to breed fruit- and insect-eating young birds by hand. NutriBird A 21 should preferably be used. Even though the technique for handrearing has principally been used to raise larger parrots, a lot of other bird species have successfully been raised with NutriBird: British finches, smaller exotic birds, mules, budgies, fancy pigeons and doves...
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4. Can NutriBird A 21 be used as a substitute for eggfoods for canaries and/or exotic birds with young?
NutriBird A 21 is not a substitute for eggfoods, but a complete food for handrearing young birds. Due to its fine powdery structure, it will not easily be eaten by the parent birds. NutriBird A 21 can however be mixed with the eggfoods to increase the protein percentage. The probiotics and digestive enzymes present in NutriBird A 21 will also make the eggfoods more digestible. NutriBird A 21 can also be used by syringe to help smaller and late-developing young in the nest.
5. Which handrearing foods should I use
to raise young British finches?
To raise young British finches, one should preferably use NutriBird A 21. The product has been successfully used several times to raise goldfinches, buntings, sparrows, padda's, difficult mules, thrushes, starlings, magpies, etc.
6. I breed all kinds of small exotics
(parrotfinches, firetails...). I sometimes handrear a few specimens with NutriBird A 21.
How do I get the birds to eat on their own at weaning age?
At weaning age you will need to force the youngsters to eat on their own. This is done by reducing the number of meals: first the meals usually given in the daytime should be omitted, then those in the morning and finally those in the evening. At the start it may be wise to moisten the NutriBird C 19 pellets, so that they can be more easily crushed by the birds. Another trick is to add a few moistened pellets to the handrearing foods in the weaning period, in this way the youngsters will have already developed a taste for the new pellets and got used to their consistency.
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