Essential Oils for Birds
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wcgpaff
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Hi, I found this article interesting Essential Oils for Birds http://petcha.com/pets/why-essential-oi ... your-bird/ Does anyone include coconut oil or borage and primrose oil etc... in their finches diet?
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Tiaris
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Never tried those but have regularly tried many seed-based oils as seed additives (eg sunflower, canola, linseed, sesame, wheatgerm, hempseed, corn, rice bran) plus less often garlic & cod-liver oil. Just be careful when trying some herb-based oil that the odour is not too overpowering or this could have a detrimental effect on palatability. Just a couple of ml of oil/kilo of seed is fine for dry seed or if wanting a stronger supplementary brew either mixed fresh each day or refrigerated for a little while around 10ml/kilo is ok. Most experimentation with these is safe given some commonsense.
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Tiaris
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Just noticed you are referring to essential oils which can be super concentrated so go way back for quantities used if using those. The less concentrated ones I mentioned are far cheaper, safer & provide excellent supplementation/nutritional value to improve basic dry seed for amino acid content & variety.