Feeding techniques of great tits

The great tit is also known as the regular bird, the white-faced tit, the squeaky-hee, the squeak-hee, and so on. People raise tits, mainly for other caged birds. In fact, great tits like to live in cities and towns. If greening is done well, more artificial nest boxes can be heard everywhere. Caged birds are easy to learn, and there is no need to raise them exclusively.

Morphological characteristics of great tits

The great tit is the largest bird in the tit family. The body length is about 13 cm, the mouth peak io mm, the wing 66.5mm, the tail 50mm, the tarsus 18mm. The top of the head is blue and black, and the cheeks are white. The upper back is yellowish green.

1. The back, shoulders and tail are grayish blue, with a white narrow cross band between the black on the back and neck.

2. The central pair of tail feathers are dark grayish blue, the stem is black, and the other tail feathers are black inside and blue-black outside. Flying feathers are dark brown.

3. Chin, throat and forechest are black and slightly metallic.

4. The abdomen is white, with a black longitudinal band running through the center, from the front chest to the back, and connected with the black tail coverts. The black vertical pattern of the female is lighter. The eyes are brown, the mouth peaks and feet are black.

The living habits of great tits

The great tit is a very lively bird, which can be seen in mountains and courtyards. It moves flexibly and often jumps constantly, clinging to tree poles or shrubs, looking for worms and eggs as food. It is wavy when flying, and keeps whining when it stops on the tree, which sounds like "squeak (appeal) hey, call hey hey" or "call bang", so the people in Changli, Hebei province call it "squeak (baby) snapping bird". It breeds in North China from March to August. In addition to living in pairs during the breeding season, people usually work in small groups. Nests are built with moss, grass stems, feathers, etc., between tree holes, bamboo holes or walls, not in tree branches.

Although the great tit is very small, there can be as many as 6-9 eggs in a nest, with pink and white eggs and covered with reddish brown spots. The hatching is mainly female, and the feeding of nestling is mainly male.

Feeding and management of great tits

Although the great tit is impatient, it is easy to domesticate, no matter raising young or adult birds can get good results. It is easy to catch tits with sticky nets and cages, but you need to have "luring birds" (commonly known as "wanderers"). The newly caught birds must change their food, start feeding flour worms or other larvae, and put the worms on a porridge-like artificial fodder. When the tits eat the insects, they will eat them together with the feed, so that they will slowly recognize the food.

Tit cages, chin cages, canary cages and yellow sparrow cages can be used to raise great tits. The feed is made of soybean flour, corn flour and peanut rice flour mixed according to 3RU 3.2, with proper amount of cooked egg yolk added, and often given some flour worms. Also give the right amount of vegetables rich in vitamins. Some people raise with embroidered eye powder, the effect is also very good. In winter, a small piece of pig oil is hung in the cage to peck, which can enhance its cold resistance and smooth feathers. In winter, properly increase the proportion of peanut rice noodles in the feed, or break the walnuts into the cage and let the birds peck at them.

There is nothing special about the rest of the management methods, they can be managed according to the conventional methods.