Re: What to do after - Hatching?
Posted: 22 Jul 2013, 12:04
i feed all my finches -baby cos lettuce -on a daily basis. it's got a good rich green colour and not washed out like the iceburg variety. i think if its good enough to feed to the rare high end mutation birds -blue and split gouldians pieds and fawn pied diamonds etc etc it good enough for a maninkin
that said now if in breeding season i go this way
1. good quality seed mix.
2. clean fresh water daily/raw apple cider vinegar
3. soaked or sprouted seed or frozen green millet
4. seeding grasses/spray millet/winter grass
now lets go back to when we were kids -zebras and bango days
1. finch mix
2. fresh water when we remembered to change it or your old man told us to change it. bit of lettuce in the aviary ...........and bred heaps. bango and zebras.
i've never been tight when it comes to feeding my birds. at one stage i was using a tub of green millet a week plus they were fed the very best available. but they still ate the lettuce. in some case 6 leaves per day per aviary.
anyway on the off chance if something goes wrong and i loose the lot. green may not be my favorite colour.
that said now if in breeding season i go this way
1. good quality seed mix.
2. clean fresh water daily/raw apple cider vinegar
3. soaked or sprouted seed or frozen green millet
4. seeding grasses/spray millet/winter grass
now lets go back to when we were kids -zebras and bango days
1. finch mix
2. fresh water when we remembered to change it or your old man told us to change it. bit of lettuce in the aviary ...........and bred heaps. bango and zebras.
i've never been tight when it comes to feeding my birds. at one stage i was using a tub of green millet a week plus they were fed the very best available. but they still ate the lettuce. in some case 6 leaves per day per aviary.
anyway on the off chance if something goes wrong and i loose the lot. green may not be my favorite colour.