After spending a whole day with budgerigar breeders, including pone person who showed at national level, at the Royal Adelaide Show, we had a lengthy discussion on nutrition in the nest with chicks. One breeder gave his birds hulled oats soaked every morning, another gave her birds bandicoot oats morning and night. ( I also bought he most beautiful violet spangle cock, who got best spangle, but the person who showed him gave him to me for $15 . I was VERY Happy)

 

I realised my birds actually are quite under nourished in that area. They get a soft food mixture with carrot, corn,peas,broccili mixed into porridge oats, bread crumbs from wholegrain bred and egg and biscuit. This is given to all aviary and breeding birds on Tuesdays, Thurdsay's and Sunday's.

 

So I went out and bought my hulled oats. I soaked them over night last night, and gave them to my solo nest with chicks in them. I came back an hour later to fidn most of it gone.

 

I have a couple of questions:

- What oats if any do you give your birds?

- If you give oats to your birds, what type?

- How often?

- Does anyone know how much and where to buy bandicoot oats from?

- How much do you pay for hulled oats if you give that to your birds?

All of my birds have access to hulled oats all of the time. The babies and breeding pairs get oats soaked in "the good oil" daily.

 

Cheers, PT

All of my birds have access to hulled oats all of the time. The babies and breeding pairs get oats soaked in "the good oil" daily.

 

Cheers, PT

 

Are the hulled oats dry?

What is the good oil?

 

Thanks!

SC

Good oil is an omega 3 oil mix made by the Passwell company. Birds in the flights get dry hulled oats (young ones get leftovers from the breeding pars and babies that are coated in good oil).

I don't know if Good Oil works - I just don't like sprouting seeds.

 

Cheers, PT