hi can i just ask what are some wild suppliments for my birds that i can go and find around this time in winter? thistle or chickweed won't grow in winter and mostly what i give them for fresh food

Edited July 23, 201014 yr by KAZ

hi can i just ask what are some wild supliments for my birds that i can go and find around this time in winter? thistle or chickweed won't grow in winter and mostly what i give them for fresh food

 

Gum branches or wattle to chew on

i collected some winter grass and wild wheat few days ago i also get them milk thistle and some flowers from my mothers candle tree its a native bush with big yellow red flowers they are long and birds love them al;so some grevilias

you can give them a clump of fresh red clay dug from near a natural fire has been through thats great natural mineral to add to floor of aviary

Mine get gum flowers as part of their usual diet and gum branches and leaves. They love chewing on them.

Peppermint tree http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....p;hl=peppermint

 

hibiscus

 

bottlebrush

hi can i just ask what are some wild suppliments for my birds that i can go and find around this time in winter? thistle or chickweed won't grow in winter and mostly what i give them for fresh food

 

I beg to differ on the chickweed. It is a winter weed. I have a garden full of the stuff and now is the time for it to start setting seed. I have been feeding my breeders this non stop for months now.

 

Milk Thistle however although cooler climate plant does not like it at the coolest time and is extremely prone to attack from Aphids during winter.

Yep chickweed is a winter annual, and like you RIP I have heaps at the moment.

Just a thought on the chickweed and milk thistle. Don't try to culivate it. The more you ignore it the better it will be. I have even grown milk thistle in summer but that is in the veggie patch were there is plently of water. Even the chickweed tries but it just cannot get the leafy growth that milk thistle does.