Hi, my budgies eggs are about to hatch soon, so I've bought some egg biscuit mix from the pet shop yesterday. In years past i've just used milk and weetbix, but want to use this new stuff. Do I have to mix it with milk or water, or do i just put it in the cage dry?

Any advice on other food I should be providing for the new hatchlings?

Try both. My birds prefer it dry, but others like it mixed with a bit of water. Lots of fresh vegies too, my birds would prefer to feed fresh foods than seed or biscuit mix. Hardboil an egg for 10 mins, mash up, shell and all and pop in too

My birds have corn on the cob, sprouted seed, endives and spinach in their breeding cages and they devour it! All these foods have all the vitamins and minerals they need to rear strong, healthy chicks. I would give the weetbix a miss. Good luck with your chicks.

Thanks guys for that. I already give the adults lots of celery with leaves and occasionally silverbeat and spinach for a treat, they eat more healthy than I do. All else is going well, the hen is eating well and looking after her eggs, I'm expecting the first one to hatch on Sunday. I just haven't breed for a few years so needed a refresher. No more weetbix, I'll start them on the egg biscuit on Sunday.

You could really do with the spinacha and celery being fed the other way around. Spinach holds much more nutrients than celery. Celery is a good source of water, but definitely for nutrition you should go with the idea that -

 

dark green (eg spinach, endive etc.) or orange (eg carrot) = healthy and crammed with vitamins etc.

 

light green (eg iceberg lettuce, celery) = watery and not so good for nutrition.

Edited May 4, 200619 yr by Janette

With reference to the spinach, there was a thread reciently that said it stops calcium being absorbed into the body, hopefully somone will know the exact details, but im sure on the outlining details

 

jason

With reference to the spinach, there was a thread reciently that said it stops calcium being absorbed into the body, hopefully somone will know the exact details, but im sure on the outlining details

 

jason

 

 

Hmm... yeah. I forgot about that post. I think the rule for dark green veggies still applies in general though. I guess it's one of those things, that if you feed too much of anything you might get some problems cropping up. I guess the answer is VARIETY.

A better substitute for spinach is the asian bok choy. Has been highly recommended by a seasoned bird breeder as being superior to spinach as the calcium issue is very real.

Edited May 5, 200619 yr by budgiebird

this may be a dumb question by me, but why do you need to feed the hatchlings? Mom & Dad do all the feeding (unless they dont & you have to intervine, is that what you mean?)

this may be a dumb question by me, but why do you need to feed the hatchlings? Mom & Dad do all the feeding (unless they dont & you have to intervine, is that what you mean?)

 

I assumed we're talking about feeding parents, in order for them to better cope with feeding chicks. I think.

Any advice on other food I should be providing for the new hatchlings?

 

 

thats what confused me, (Laughing out loud)

Any advice on other food I should be providing for the new hatchlings?

 

 

thats what confused me, (Laughing out loud)

 

hmmm...

I feed the parents on hi protein food. They then give it to the chicks :0