CLASSIC CAGE BIRDS
I WILL now jot down as they occur to my mind a few things likely to crop up at times in the breeder’s experience [wrote CP Arthur in 1906]. First of all, budgerigars are very liable to drop dead in a fit, in the spring more so than at any other time of the year. I think this must be through being deprived of green food so much throughout the winter. Anyway, I find it a very good plan as the winter is passing over to give, if green food is short, a little Epsom salts in the drinking water occasionally. This must be given in a glass or china (not metal) vessel, and in just sufficient quantity to make the water taste of it.
Sometimes the bird will
