Why lebanese cucumber

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SteveC
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Most of my finches love lebanese cucumber especially RFPF. Can other types of cucumber be offered? If not,why not.
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Don't know either why they say give your finches lebanese but I sure prefer them over other types of cucumber.What mine also love are home grown green burpless straight out of the garden.Lets see if anyone has an answer to your question.
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Dont know either but they will be lucking out here for a while ....no leb cucumbers in store at the moment ...Question Do birds get indigestion ? As far as I know this is the only difference between normal cuc and leb cuc ......
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wasn't it because there was something in lebanese?
anyway I grow these so there's no real need to feed them other types.
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Sister was over on holiday a while back. Looked at cucumbers in shop, said "Why do they call these Continental cucumbers? They are the one's we buy all the time?" Then it hit her. drrrrrrrr She lives in England. :oops:
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SteveC wrote:Most of my finches love lebanese cucumber especially RFPF. Can other types of cucumber be offered? If not,why not.
Hi Steve,

You would have to ask the birds!

I have done several tests with different types of cucumber.

Some they will pick at, others not touch, but only the Lebanese to they devour with gusto!

So I have no idea, but I am sure my finches do, and they know better then me what is good for them!
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My birds actually swarm when I take fresh cc into the aviary. I have tried other fruits such apples and tomatoes but apart from Endive lettice nothing else gets the same reaction as Leb cc.
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And yet nutritionally there not worth a pinch of billy goat poo . Still I like to see them eat anything thats fresh and it cant hurt them .
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my zebs love the lebanese cucumber, but in my other avairy the stars and Gouldian dont seam to want to touch it at all!! anyone experianced this at all??
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I had similar problems when I first started feeding cucumber and I found that the eat anything bird (Red Faced Parrot) jumped straight in and over a fortnight the others got curious and eventually folloed the lead of the RFP.
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