What food does the lively and easy-to-tame budgerigar eat? Can you talk? How long is the life span?

Budgerigar is a bird of the parrot family, also known as Jiaofeng, is a small climbing bird species, native to the inland areas of Australia, lively and easy to domesticate, is one of the favorite pet birds in China. What food does the budgerigar eat? Can you talk? How long is the life span?

Budgerigar's feather color is very bright, the body feather color is composed of many colors, there are many small black stripes on the head and back, their legs are relatively short, is a kind of mainly live in grasslands and forest edges and other areas. There are many varieties of budgerigar, ranging from light to dark colors: White, milky white, yellow, bright green, dark green, olive green, gray green, sky blue, cobalt blue, dark blue, light violet, violet, gray, carbon black.

What kind of food does budgerigar eat?

1. Staple food: budgerigar likes to eat some feed with shells. Millet, millet or eggs should be the main food in daily feeding. Oyster powder or bone meal can also be used as regular feed. Some green vegetables should be fed every day. You can also put a whole cuttlefish bone in the cage to eat. These are all good foods for budgerigars. Budgerigar tolerance roughage, concentrate feed should not be fed too much, so as not to cause monthly deposition, affecting egg production and reproduction.

two。 Water: give the budgerigar some tap water, do not feed the drink, the drink contains sugar, this will cause harm to the budgerigar.

3. Nutrients: appropriate calcium supplements to budgerigars, better during estrus. If you do not supplement calcium to budgerigars during this period, it will cause a decrease in the number of eggs laid by birds and cause harm to the body of budgerigars. During the period of calcium supplement to budgerigar, you can also match some health care sand to supplement your eggshell with some trace elements, which is a better kind of food. Budgerigars also prefer to eat.

How long is the life span of budgerigar?

The average lifespan of budgerigar is 7 to 10 years, which is even longer if carefully bred.

Can budgerigar talk?

Most parrots in small parrot subjects can talk, such as tiger skin, Xuan Feng, Xiao Yi and so on. Because the bird vocal cords of the parrot subject are the same as the generating organs are more suitable for making all kinds of sounds.

In fact, budgerigars can imitate human speech in the early stages of domestication, and many records show that they have a strong ability to imitate. It is said that at the beginning of the 20th century, a man-raised budgerigar escaped and was caught and sent back because it read the home phone number all the way. Now this ability has declined obviously, and it is very difficult to see a talking budger. it may be due to the reduction of breeding pressure and the deterioration of bird imitation ability in captivity.

In the early days, tiger skin was more capable of imitating and talking than it is now. But now most tiger skins are speechless, and it is said that this ability has been degraded due to generation-by-generation reproduction and changes in living conditions. But there are still some tiger skins that can talk (a small proportion).

How to teach budgerigar to talk?

1. Pre-teaching preparation

First of all, you should choose Yacheng's male budgerigar for two reasons:

1) Yacheng (the individual after coming out of the nest to before sexual maturity) is more likely to accept new things, so the success rate is higher.

2) the male budgerigar is much better than the female budgerigar (imitating the calls of other birds, and some sounds, including talking).

Secondly, the birds to be trained cannot be kept in the same room with other species of birds (except the teacher birds), and the birds that teach to talk should be kept in a separate cage.

It is generally believed that teaching parrots to speak requires twisting their tongues, which is a misunderstanding and does harm to parrots in vain. In fact, whether to twist the tongue or not has no scientific basis and significant effect on parrot learning human language. Because the vocal organs of most birds are "singing tubes" located at the lower end of the trachea and bronchial branches, which are pronounced by the contraction of attached muscles, while the human vocal cords are at the upper end of the trachea.

Teaching methods.

1) time: early morning is the best, because the singing of birds is the most active in the morning, when the birds are not full, and the teaching effect is good.

2) Environment: be quiet, there can be no noise and conversation, otherwise it is easy to distract the attention of birds and will learn sounds that should not be learned. Therefore, it is best to choose to teach in a quiet room.

3) content: we should insist on teaching budgerigar to speak every day, and teach it sentence by sentence, first of all, from simple words, such as "Hello", "good-bye", etc., and you can't teach two sentences at the same time. When teaching them to speak words, they should pronounce clearly and not vaguely, so as to make the words learned by birds clearer. (the method often used is to use the already talking myna, wrens or purple-winged starlings as teacher birds to let the tiger skin parrot learn, which can save a lot of manpower and is faster; if you don't have a teacher bird, you can choose a repeater or teach in person, and the effect is just as good).

Because of the individual differences of birds, not every budgerigar can successfully learn to speak, and the success rate of budgerigar learning to speak is about 22% (calculated according to the budgerigar that has been learning to talk for a year or so), so you should be prepared for failure.