How to raise budgerigar? What kind of food does budgerigar eat?

As we all know, budgerigar is beautiful, interesting and easy to raise, so it is called popular pet breeding. And budgerigar is easy to breed and can increase economic benefits through breeding. So how do you keep budgerigar? What kind of food do they eat? Let's take a look.

How to raise budgerigar?

1. Cage

A large square metal cage should be used. The size of the cage is 40 cm long, 35 cm wide and 35 cm high. The bottom of the cage is provided with a drawer-type sand table (dung board) to facilitate the cleaning of feces. The nest box of the budgerigar is a transverse nest. The size of the nest box is a small rectangular wooden box with a length of 25 cm, a width of 14 cm and a height of 14 cm. There is a partition in the middle, which is divided into inner and outer chambers. The outer chamber has a round hole leading to the outside, with a diameter of 6 cm. The outer room and the middle partition of the inner room have the same round hole, 4 cm in diameter, which is the gateway for birds to enter and exit. Clean drinking water should be changed every day, feces should be cleaned once a week, and attention should be paid not to parrots in strong light in summer.

2. Food

The feed is mainly millet and barnyards. at the same time, some sesame seeds or perilla seeds should be fed, but the dosage should not exceed 10%. In order to ensure the nutrition needed by birds, green vegetables (cabbage, rape) and inorganic salts (bone meal, oyster powder) should also be fed regularly. This kind of bird is resistant to roughage, and concentrate should not be fed too much, so as not to cause deposition and affect egg laying and reproduction.

When feeding, pay attention to blowing off the chaff from the canister, wash the vegetables before feeding, disinfect (1/1000 potassium permanganate solution can be used), drain, and take out the rest on the same day. Pay attention to the hygiene in the cage and clean up the sand and feces frequently. Food and water cans should be scrubbed twice a day. Although budgerigar is not too afraid of the cold, but the temperature is too low will affect reproduction, so the winter indoor temperature should not be lower than 0 ℃.

3. Temperature

Attention should be paid to keeping warm in winter, and the indoor temperature should not be lower than 16 ℃. The temperature is higher in summer, so ventilation should be strengthened when the temperature is more than 30 ℃. Budgerigars like to eat feed with shells, usually millet, barnyard grass, millet or egg millet, and should be fed with green vegetables, oyster powder or bone meal as regular feed (you can also put a whole piece of cuttlefish bone in the cage to peck). Budgerigar reaches sexual maturity at the age of 4 months, begins to estrus and mate, and can be used as a breeding bird to reproduce. Budgerigar can reproduce all the year round. Generally, each litter can lay 4-7 eggs, which are white and lay one egg every day or every other day. When laying the third egg, the female begins to sit and hatch, and the hatching period is 18 days.

4. Reproduction

Budgerigar is easy to breed, but it is necessary to avoid crossing and keep this breed pure. For the sake of the health of offspring, it is appropriate to choose 1 Murray 2-year-old parent bird pair. Soon after mating, the female begins to lay eggs, one egg the next day, and a total of 9 eggs are produced. Female birds do not leave the nest after laying eggs until the end of hatching, during which time the males feed. The incubation period is about 18 days. The nestling of budgerigar is a late adult bird, which cannot live independently within 25 days of hatching and is fed by adult birds. The method of raising chicks by parent birds is that the males feed the females, and the females feed the chicks. After 28 days of growth, the chicks can eat by themselves and live on their own. Sexual maturity can be achieved in 6 months when it grows to 5m / m / m.

What kind of food does budgerigar eat?

Budgerigars like to eat feed with shells, usually millet, barnyard grass, millet or egg millet, and should be fed with green vegetables, oyster powder or bone meal as regular feed (you can also put a whole piece of cuttlefish bone in the cage to peck).

Matters needing attention in raising budgerigar

1. Budgerigar has the advantages of simple breeding, extensive management, tolerance to roughage, strong physique, not easy to get sick, and easy to breed. Budgerigar has a hook on its mouth, strong and powerful, and likes to bite wood, so it can not be raised in a bamboo cage, but with a metal pet. As a leisure watching bird, it can be raised in a small electroplated metal cage with perch bars and rings for parrots to play with.

2. Budgerigars can be raised in pairs or in groups, usually with wire cages or tin-covered box cages. The activity space of each pair of birds should be more than 0.5 cubic meters, otherwise it is not conducive to reproduction. The bottom of the cage should be made into a drawer (nailed with iron sheet) to facilitate pull-out, cleaning and sand laying. Food and water utensils should be deep and strong to prevent them from being bitten.

3. In winter, although their hair is very thick, you should keep it warm by pressing a small light bulb on the cage.

4. In summer, you can make several holes in the cap of the plastic bottle, fill it with warm water, aim at the mouth of the cage, provide the bird with a shower, and then blow dry after washing.

5. If you find that they don't eat, you starve them for a few days, and then put the food in the trough.

6. When the bird is depressed, you open the cage door (close the window after opening) and put some food in your hand, and it will fly in your hand to eat after a while.

How to choose a healthy budgerigar

1. The body feathers of parrots should be clean and shiny, and their feathers should be close to the body, not fluffy.

2. Parrots should keep their activities normal and lively, with round and open eyes, and should not always shrink their heads and close their eyes in one place.

3. All things such as shrinking head and closing eyes, loose feathers, inactivity, sagging wings, perianal pollution, diarrhea, etc., are morbid or weak phenomena, do not buy.

The above are the methods and matters needing attention of raising budgerigar, how to breed budgerigar, we need to choose healthy parrot breeding, and then cooperate with reasonable and healthy breeding methods to understand the matters needing attention. Only in this way can we raise beautiful and healthy budgerigars as desired.