vitamin d3

[werty]

I just read an article on vitamin d3.....when i first started breeding finches all babies would survive and i never had sick birds...i never usrd any medication at all....it was a small aivary...no walls so they had plenty of sun.....kept nests in all year round so at night they would sleep in them...birds were perfect.....after 3 years i had around 80 birds....i bought a bigger aivary with walls and placed plastic over the wire to keep them warm...since moving them into the aivary that has alot less light the birds just dont have any more chicks that survive...and alot of my adult birds started to die...is it the lack of sunlight?....

[BrettB]

There could be many reasons for your current poor results.

Sunlight is important for birds to manufacture Vit D, which is critical for a number of reasons including immune system and calcium metabolism
Many plastics/alsynite/etc filter out virtually all the UV light. So to keep the birds healthy they either need access to direct sunlight, UV lights or Vit D supplements.

Cheers
Brett

[werty]

The vet found only a yeast infection...and enlarged livers in dead adult birds..no worms..the vet gave me medication for yeast infection....and only said stop feeding seed...feed pellets and greens...did it no improvement...

So i tried tried apple cider vinegar when adult birds kept dieing ....apple cider vinegar seems to keep adults healthy but the chicks still die.....

Has anyone here used soluvite d3 breeder?.....

[Finchman1]

Yes I use it from time to time I found it has increased fertility in the birds

[finchbreeder]

Lots of greens are always a good idea regardless. You could try egg and biscuit mix too.
LML

[werty]

I have always given my birds greens...everyday spinach and fresh grass....egg and biscuit food everyday also...by avione ...

So the d3 breeder increased fertility....

The only thing that changed was the aivary ...less light...plus plastic over the wire....

I have now removed all the plastic....starting to feed them boiled egg for the vitamin d...hopefully this will solve the problem...

In 5 years of not ever using a bird wormer ....shouldn't my birds have had worms?....the vet found none in any of my birds

[Tiaris]

Which finch species do you have?

[werty]

Zebra finch

[Finchman1]

Don't feed to much silver beet,I have heard it can effect fertility due to the acid in it

[werty]

After nearly two years with not a single chick and hundreds of infertile eggs i finally have an aivary of healthy chicks,so many i can't even count

These same birds couldn't even breed 2 years ago,in October i removed all the plastic from wire and started adding Soluvite d d breeder to the water also started to feed them boiled egg everyday..its now Dec and the chicks are perfect,they look like. Wild birds..strong big and fast

I try to clean out the nests but the parents are already raising second clutches...its like my birds are now on steroids..

Vitamin d3 has turned my dieing birds around