TheBudgieGuy 0 Posted December 29, 2010 Member ID: 6,429 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 6 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 60 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 11, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Hey guys/girls, I am getting 4 budgies in the new year, which you might know if you have read my thread "New Budgie Decisions" (which I need to reply to). I am planning on breeding them and by the end of 2011 own 16 budgies. I will visit shows in 2011 and maybe take a small team to a local show in 2012. I want to provide my budgies with good nutrition, especially because in the breeding season, they'll be in breeding cages and won't have much space to move around (I am constructing a flight for the non-breeding season). So my question is - what do you feed your budgie(s)? For the breeders on here, please tell me any differences during the breeding and non-breeding seasons. In the book "The Challenge: Breeding Championship Budgies" by Gerald S. Binks, which you've most likely heard about, Gerald includes his diet called "The Binks Diet", which I think sounds good if I can get all of the supplies in Queensland. I would also like some feedback of whether you think that the Binks diet is good, and if not, what you would change about them? Any additional information about feeding would be great too. The Binks Diet Non-breeding Season Canary Seed - 80 per cent Mixed Millets - 10 per cent Clipped oats/groats - 5 per cent Tonic Seed - 5 per cent, fed separately Abidec Drops - 1 drop / pint water Cytacon - 5 mls / pint water Hormova - Offered separately in finger drawers Grit + Cuttlefish - continuously Iodised Blocks - continuously Breeding Season Differences Main Mixture (Canary Seed, Mixed Millets, Clipped oats/groats) Coated in Cod Liver Oil at 5mls per pound 24 hours prior to feeding Abidec Drops - 2 drops / pint water Cytacon - 10 mls / pint water So, yeah, any opinions would be good, as well as the price of all of this (estimated) and what finger drawers are? Cheers Finn Link to comment
*Nerwen* 0 Posted December 29, 2010 Member ID: 5,064 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 121 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,817 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 18, 2014 Birthday: 20/02/1982 Share Posted December 29, 2010 I can't say about the food as i use a good quality finch mix from the produce store near me. but here is a picture for finger drawers http://www.borehamwoodbudgies.co.uk/finger%20drawers.jpg it is just a small container that clips to the bars of the cage Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted December 29, 2010 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Hey guys/girls, I am getting 4 budgies in the new year, which you might know if you have read my thread "New Budgie Decisions" (which I need to reply to). I am planning on breeding them and by the end of 2011 own 16 budgies. I will visit shows in 2011 and maybe take a small team to a local show in 2012. I want to provide my budgies with good nutrition, especially because in the breeding season, they'll be in breeding cages and won't have much space to move around (I am constructing a flight for the non-breeding season). So my question is - what do you feed your budgie(s)? For the breeders on here, please tell me any differences during the breeding and non-breeding seasons. In the book "The Challenge: Breeding Championship Budgies" by Gerald S. Binks, which you've most likely heard about, Gerald includes his diet called "The Binks Diet", which I think sounds good if I can get all of the supplies in Queensland. I would also like some feedback of whether you think that the Binks diet is good, and if not, what you would change about them? Any additional information about feeding would be great too. The Binks Diet Non-breeding Season Canary Seed - 80 per cent Mixed Millets - 10 per cent Clipped oats/groats - 5 per cent Tonic Seed - 5 per cent, fed separately Abidec Drops - 1 drop / pint water Cytacon - 5 mls / pint water Hormova - Offered separately in finger drawers Grit + Cuttlefish - continuously Iodised Blocks - continuously Breeding Season Differences Main Mixture (Canary Seed, Mixed Millets, Clipped oats/groats) Coated in Cod Liver Oil at 5mls per pound 24 hours prior to feeding Abidec Drops - 2 drops / pint water Cytacon - 10 mls / pint water So, yeah, any opinions would be good, as well as the price of all of this (estimated) and what finger drawers are? Cheers Finn Some of the ingredients on that list are UK or EUROPE based anyway and we dont get it here. Link to comment
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