Cage & Aviary Birds

Cereal and cardboard to the rescue!

BUDGERIGARS

AT THE end of last week’s article, I explained that I’d worked out that I had inadvertently been providing too much vitamin D3 in my birds’ diet during the 2012 season. The following season I simply stopped giving the items that included extra vitamin D3.

Additionally, I had a number of conversations with both the Bowkers and the Millers, who had achieved phenomenal hatchability rates in their studs over the previous four or five seasons. My aim was to try and identify anything that I could adopt to improve my situation. As a result:

I decided to stop boiling the drinking water and

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