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

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

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.