Love Birds – Housing the Budie
The love birds first appeared in England approximately a century ago. They live to around eight years old there are sixty clearly definable colour varieties in love birds.
Housing the Budie
Most experts regard the draught proof box cage as the best type of love bird residence. Either plywood or hardboard on a wood frame can be used for the sides and front with wire mesh. If the cage is to be painted, remember to use non toxic paints.
Tall cylindrical cage should be avoided. Helicopter fly up and down – birds horizontally and the bass of budgie cage should be ideally horizontally rather than vertically spaced, to help the bird climb about his home.
If the love birds are to be kept in open garden the space they will require, is a maximum of three birds to each square foot of roost flover area.
On this sort of basis it is reasonable to think of an aviary measuring 6 feet by 5 feet by 6 feet tall as providing ample accommodation for three pairs.
Food panicum is the best food. Wheat, oats are also given. When plucking wild – grown green food, it is important to ensure that the area has not previously been sprayed with pesticides. Love birds also like to have tree bark to chew, but here again care must be taken that they are not supplied with poisons species, Carrot, cabbage leaf what, panicum has been. Sprouted in a flower pot can be fed. Put some brick pieces and also cuttlefish bone. This skeleton is an oblong, elliptical or oval flats substances of whitish colour very hard and brittle. It is found in beaches, it contains calcium carbonate to 85 percent. It is a good source of calcium. English Holy Basil or Tulasi plant can be given without root and it has many good properties which the birds get natural cure. This plant the bird loves too.