Away all day - what to feed raising young

[Abarratt]

I am away most days from about 7:00 until 7:00 each day so I am reluctant to leave out wet food or anything that might spoil. I am leaving dry egg food, mealworms, cucumber at the moment. Sometimes doing a change if I am back in time around 6:30-7:00.

Any suggestions as this doesn't seem enough although my Gouldians are raising their 3 young very well.

AB.

[vettepilot_6]

Enough soaked seed they can finish in a day...

[Red]

Sprouted seed is also good.

Store bought Madeira cake works for some canary breeders.

[Craig52]

It all depends on what other birds you keep,gouldians will get their young through with what you are feeding now. Craig

[Abarratt]

Orange breasts also just hatched. How are they with such a diet really just once in the morning and the rest of the day seed?

AB

[TomDeGraaff]

I think orangebreasts can cope ok if they are used to a particular feeding regime. If you are feeding livefood twice a day and you can't add an extra feed, just give more each time. Mine still raised young when I worked all day and could only feed them twice a day. Also, keep up the seeding grasses and they'll use this.

The biggest hassle is if somebody else hogs all the food. In general terms, I also try to keep only one pair of bug-hungry species in an aviary if possible but each species has its exceptions!

On the subject of when to feed, I feed my lorikeets in the evening especially during the hotter months. I
My reasoning is that they get a fresh feed, go to sleep, then still have fairly fresh food first thing in the morning. The food, I figure, has less chance of oing off during the cooler temperatures of the nigh time.