Does anyone give their budgies a sprinkle of Limestone flour on their seed occasionally? I know you are supposed to give budgies cuttlefish to help with calcium and their beak etc but what happens if the budgie doesn't go for it, how else do you get calcium in to them. I know they give Limestone flour to Tortoises but I was wondering if anyone gives it to budgies and whether it would benefit them health wise...I have tried Calcivet (liquid) on the birds fruit and veg but they won't touch it...please don't attack me, this is really only me being inquisitive and not trying to start a heated debate..

Edited March 27, 200817 yr by lisa

Does anyone give their budgies a sprinkle of Limestone flour on their seed occasionally? I know you are supposed to give budgies cuttlefish to help with calcium and their beak etc but what happens if the budgie doesn't go for it, how else do you get calcium in to them. I know they give Limestone flour to Tortoises but I was wondering if anyone gives it to budgies and whether it would benefit them health wise...I have tried Calcivet (liquid) on the birds fruit and veg but they won't touch it...please don't attack me, this is really only me being inquisitive and not trying to start a heated debate..

Questions like this wont fall prey to attack.....

I dont use limestone on seed at all. I do have a lot of faith in calcivet as I have seen it do miraculous things. My birds have cuttlebone also but I personally have no faith in that as they seem to play with it more than ingest it. The very best calcium you can give your birds according to research is finely crushed eggshells...oven dried and crushed to a powder.

Do you put Calcivet (liquid) on the food or in the water? I was told that putting it in the water would be okay but costly as you need to use much more to make it work...putting it on the fruit and veg is very hit and miss as the birds hardly touch it when it's been added. Thanks

Edited March 27, 200817 yr by lisa

Do you put Calcivet (liquid) on the food or in the water? I was told that putting it in the water would be okay but costly as you need to use much more to make it work...putting it on the fruit and veg is very hit and miss as the birds hardly touch it when it's been added. Thanks

I use it in the water

Can you tell me how much water to how much Calvicet liquid you use please...and how often you use it..thanks

Edited March 27, 200817 yr by lisa

Can you tell me how much water to how much Calvicet liquid you use please...and how often you use it..thanks

I just follow the directions on the bottle I use it prior to breeding a couple of days a week and also during egg laying and chick raising...a couple of days a week,

It says on the bottle I have....

 

Application: Mix 10mls to 20mls of Calcivet to 1 litre of drinking water. Alternatively add to food at the rate of 0.1-0.2mls (diluted in a little water) per 100g of bodyweight.

Feed once or twice a week to non-breeding animals and five times a week to breeders. Do not feed Calcivet daily.

 

...so how much would I use if I give my birds a quarter of a pint of water each day...sorry to sound thick but I really don't want to get this wrong

It says on the bottle I have....

 

Application: Mix 10mls to 20mls of Calcivet to 1 litre of drinking water. Alternatively add to food at the rate of 0.1-0.2mls (diluted in a little water) per 100g of bodyweight.

Feed once or twice a week to non-breeding animals and five times a week to breeders. Do not feed Calcivet daily.

 

...so how much would I use if I give my birds a quarter of a pint of water each day...sorry to sound thick but I really don't want to get this wrong

We dont do pints over herre any more....its all metric.....but I think a pint equals 600 mls

Edited March 27, 200817 yr by KAZ

Sorry hun...I think a quarter of a pint is around 150ml...so how much Calcivet would I add to it... 2ml? Thanks

Thanks lisa for opening up this topic, even I had all these questions to Kaz after going through her post in another Topic.

 

I think 1ml to 1.5ml should be okay and alternate days.

 

Regarding hydrated limestone flour, last weekend I have enquired same thing with one of the general Vet and what he told me was that we can mix very very little of limestone flour to the drinking water and give it to birds.

 

I am very much sure if I am wrong, Kaz or some other member will correct me. :yellowhead: