Cage & Aviary Birds

The three key rules of birdkeeping

FOR anyone starting out with birds, this magazine often features articles by experienced fanciers, offering sound advice on husbandry and housing for particular species or varieties. While some of this advice is specific to those types of birds, a lot of it is transferable, so an article on canaries might contain an idea that will help with your parakeets or vice versa.

My own experience, with a range of birds and with farm livestock, leads me to the conclusion that the basic principles of good husbandry are universal and, once understood, can be applied to just about anything you’d like to keep – applied, of course,

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