I have been net surfing and I came across another forum that I have been chatting to people in. One guy is someone I met while in the states who breeds both Budgies and Quakers. He and his wife where kind enough to let me come and see their set up while I was over there and he told me a trick which I like and thought I would share.

 

Most birds eat a lot just as the sun is coming up. I have noticed this with my birds they are all at the feeder when I go to wake them up in the morning. So if you want to get veggies in them then you have to get up before dawn and put the veggies in the aviary otherwise you miss the window (this is not to say that they only eat veggie at this time just that some breeders notice they eat more at this time)

 

If you are not a morning person then here is a trick.

 

Get frozen peas, carrots & Corn mix (my guys love it or you can look for an altnerative type the key here is that it has to be frozen).

Make sure it is going to be a cool night (DO NOT do this if it is going to be a hot nights).

And you have no hens sitting on egg (the breeder has in the past scared a hen off eggs).

 

Serve out your frozen veggies straight from the freezer. Then using soft light or low light around midnight add the veggie dishes to the breeding cages and/or aviary. The veggies will slowly defrost over the remaining 5 or 6 hours and when the Budgies wake up they find a nice cool plate of veggie for them to eat.

 

Last night was a cool night down here in Melbourne so I put my Veggies out at around midnight before I went to bed and got up today and outside of a few carrot bits left there was nothing!

 

Normally my guys eat this stuff well but they have never eaten it this well. Will keep this as a winter thing or a cool night thing as don't want to run the risk of the veggies going off, but the bits of carrot that I cleaned out this morning where still a little below the outside temp so I am really liking this idea!

thanks for the info. not a bad Idea to try.

That's great info AV

 

You can also feed veggies at 4pm and remove them at 6pm, as this is their evening feeding times too

That's great info AV

 

You can also feed veggies at 4pm and remove them at 6pm, as this is their evening feeding times too

 

 

See this was my original plan but sometime I don't get home till 8pm and have missed the window and I HATE getting up a 5am to put the feed out for the birds and go back to bed for an hour or two so this helps me stay in bed a little bit longer