COLUMN: A BUDGERIGAR DIARY, BY DENISE K. WREN
THE Budgerigar's Health Cake is one that, like a good Christmas pudding, must be put away to mature. This is the way I make mine:
Take, by cupfuls, six of coarse gravel (or coarse sea sand), six of old lime mortar, one of clean, dry, broken eggshells, three of slaked lime and three large cuttlefish bones. (The gravel, mortar and lime can be obtained from a local builder's yard.)
I smash up the eggshells to powder; break the cuttlefish bones into half-inch lumps; see that the gravel and mortartwo cupfuls of water to the slaked lime and beat all together, well mixing everything.
