xkittykatx
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- Jul 18, 2010
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I have an aviary of around 30 birds, including budgies, canaries, cockatiels, finches, bengalese and quails. I have more budgies than anything else but i have noticed some of them are fatter than usual, this could be due to a number of reasons:
They had a hard winter so they fattened up for insulation,
It is mostly females and I decided not to breed them this year so something to do with not laying eggs
There is now less birds than when I first got the aviary so competition food is lower
I have tried separating the fat ones and putting them on a restricted diet and also tried restricting the food of the whole aviary but then the less dominant birds find it difficult to get food
I have also tried giving them more regular vegetables along with their ordinary seed-based diet
I dont feed them millet at all because i know it is very fattening and would probably make the fat birds worse
I need help as I have run out of ideas, maybe i should change their seed type as it is mainly just the basic budgie and cockatiel mix you get in the pet store and i don't want to have to spend a lot of money on seed all the time so maybe just temporarily to lower the fattness of the birds
please can you give me some solutions to this problem
Thanks, much appreciated
They had a hard winter so they fattened up for insulation,
It is mostly females and I decided not to breed them this year so something to do with not laying eggs
There is now less birds than when I first got the aviary so competition food is lower
I have tried separating the fat ones and putting them on a restricted diet and also tried restricting the food of the whole aviary but then the less dominant birds find it difficult to get food
I have also tried giving them more regular vegetables along with their ordinary seed-based diet
I dont feed them millet at all because i know it is very fattening and would probably make the fat birds worse
I need help as I have run out of ideas, maybe i should change their seed type as it is mainly just the basic budgie and cockatiel mix you get in the pet store and i don't want to have to spend a lot of money on seed all the time so maybe just temporarily to lower the fattness of the birds
please can you give me some solutions to this problem
Thanks, much appreciated