Knowledge necessary for raising parrots

Knowledge necessary for raising parrots

The necessary knowledge of keeping parrots, parrots are common birds with bright feathers in our lives, so some people decide to keep parrots as pets because of their value. But actually, many people don't know how to feed parrots. The following is the necessary knowledge of raising parrots.

Essential knowledge of raising parrots 1 First, the pet nature of parrots.

Advantages:

Fashion, long life (depending on the variety, ranging from ten or twenty years to forty or fifty years to eighty or ninety years), not easy to get sick, simple to feed, no peculiar smell (the smell of feces is not strong), simple to clean (some varieties will take a bath by themselves, and some only need to be washed with water occasionally), not shedding hair everywhere, and talking.

Disadvantages:

Expensive, loud, destructive, irregular defecation, it is difficult to find a doctor.

Second, the species of parrots.

Basically, pet parrots are divided into three categories: small, medium and large. Parrot has the most common tiger skin, peony, Feng Xuan and horizontal spot; Medium-sized monks with the previous UP hair, mini King Kong, moon wheel, golden sun, small sun, all kinds of honey sucking, big parrot: sunflower UP, representing King Kong, Alexander, gray, compromise, flying chest, Amazon. These are common varieties in China, and each variety can be subdivided a lot. You can study them slowly.

Third, the price of parrots

Compared with most other pets, it is definitely expensive, but it is not absolute, such as high-priced arowana, high-priced Tibetan mastiff and high-priced famous dogs and cats. Comparing these parrots is very cheap. The price of parrots is basically the bigger, the more expensive.

Fourth, the choice of parrots

As a novice, we must first understand two things. Not all parrots can talk, and not all parrots will love their relatives when raised.

Parrots basically can't talk, and of course it's not absolute. There is probably a kind of tiger skin that can make a sound similar to talking. There are not many medium-sized parrots that can talk. Only monks, honey straws and mini-King Kong have the ability to learn languages, and most of them can only scream. Large parrots generally begin to have the ability to speak, but the language learning ability of each species is also very different.

Therefore, if the merchant tells you that this parrot will talk after being raised, you must first look at the variety.

There are several degrees of relatives. The baiwenhang, who basically has no relatives, is only close to his master and is deeply moved. Moon and chest are famous baiwenhang, and Alexander's relatives are also general; Peony, compromise, monk, King Kong series and Amazon series are usually only close to the owner; The special parents are golden sun, small sun, sunflower, ash tree and honey sucking.

Of course, the above important premise is that birds are raised artificially, which means that birds open their eyes and see people, and every mouthful of milk is fed by human hands. If it is stocked, it is raised by relatives, not necessarily relatives.

Fifth, parrots learn the language.

If you choose a variety that can talk, you can start teaching to talk after weaning. This is a matter that requires a lot of manpower and energy. If people don't spend enough time with them, even if they listen to the repeater 24 hours a day, it is difficult for parrots to speak.

Because the learning instinct of parrots comes from the specific calls used by wild parrots when they communicate with each other in the same group, first, people and parrots should be close enough to make parrots realize that you are a member of their group and a leader. Then through repeated teaching, the parrot will think that this sound is a group contact call, and then learn to speak.

If you can't do this and just want a talking bird, please keep myna or myna.

What parrot can talk especially? You must mention Amazon first, and the speaking ability is 65438 +0. Although it is not as good as the gray parrot in vocabulary, the advantage of Amazon is that it can master long sentences and even sing. Secondly, the grey parrot, one of the few animals that can really communicate with humans through language; These two varieties are the kings of oral ability, with a large amount of language learning and fast learning speed.

Macaws beautified by various film and television media can only be considered as average, and a few to a dozen words may be the upper limit. Other kinds of parrots are generally at this level, and their abilities will be different according to their individual qualities and training methods. Several talking medium-sized parrots can only learn a few words and some sounds. Feng Xuan, a parrot, can learn to whistle through training.

Sixth, the breeding of parrots

The perfect parrot must have been raised since childhood, but as a late bird, the parrot has at least three months of lactation, so the parrot milk powder imitating the rumination of the mother bird has been developed in the industry. Breastfeeding is a very difficult thing, and novices had better buy weaned parrots. First of all, parrots must always keep warm, need to buy professional equipment, and milk powder is not cheap. They should feed it every few hours for several months.

The quantity, solubility, temperature and feeding method of milk powder are very important, and it is by no means an alarmist. Many parrots died during feeding. The temperature of milk powder is too high, which burns crops and leads to death. The temperature of milk powder is too low, leading to diarrhea and death. The solubility of milk powder is too high, leading to indigestion and death. The milk that has not been fed at one time is reluctant to leave it and feed it again, leading to bacterial invasion and death. Milk powder is fed into trachea or feeding equipment falls into nest.

Essential knowledge of raising parrots II. Preparation before purchase

1, know the parrot you want to buy.

As a qualified owner, you should do your homework before buying a parrot and know the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the parrot you want to buy, instead of knowing the price at the first step. If you don't know anything about parrots, I suggest you go to major forums to look at the information and ask your friends, and learn simple introductory knowledge first.

Get a general understanding of the common parrots sold in the market, what are the characteristics of various common parrots and so on. Then choose your favorite parrot according to your own needs, and then carefully understand the characteristics of this parrot at all ages, the characteristics of male and female, and how to distinguish young birds.

When you look up information on the Internet, you should also pay attention to the wrong information on the Internet. The information on the internet will not be completely correct, and even the information on some websites is wrong, misleading or scribbled, so remind yourself that while checking the information, you should pay attention to thinking and distinguish which information is wrong.

In addition, some information is inaccurate, such as the speaking ability of some parrots, which is estimated by the website. Don't take it too seriously. The actual culture may not reach the situation mentioned in this paper. Don't think it will have the same effect in the future. After reading the information, see if you, your family and your neighbors have been affected and can you accept it, because parrots have several shortcomings:

A, the sound is noisy, and even some varieties of sounds are super ugly, which will make people feel disgusted and even cause family discord and neighbors to turn against each other. Don't think that the parrot you see in the market is quiet, then you are all wet. Parrots don't bark all day, yes, but some parrots will drive you crazy once they bark.

B feather powder is the secretion of parrot skin, which has the functions of protecting feathers, preventing water, preventing insects and regulating temperature. However, feather powder is constantly secreted and scattered on the ground, which will cause air pollution to human beings and pollute the ground. If there are relatives with breathing problems at home, try not to consider raising them. Long-term inhalation of feather powder will affect the respiratory tract.

C, destruction, parrots are similar to naughty children, often destroying, biting different wood, plastic and even steel to achieve the purpose of grinding their mouths. Furniture, wires, books and newspapers at home are in danger of being bitten at any time. As the owner, we should consider how to face these problems before buying. It is instinctive for parrots to bite, because their mouths are constantly growing and need to be ground by biting, so when raising parrots at home, toys and wood should be provided for parrots to bite.

D. Companionship and interaction Parrots are creatures with high IQ, and they also need their owners' constant companionship and interaction. If you, as a host, travel frequently, or are too lazy to accompany parrots, and there is often no one at home, then you'd better not keep parrots. Parrots are prone to self-harm when they are lonely, bored and depressed, that is, psychological pecking addiction.

When you are ready and have enough knowledge, time and space to take care of your parrot, start to understand the price and bird dealers.

2. Know the price of the parrot you want to buy and the local bird dealer.

There are many bird dealers selling parrots all over the country, but how to choose an honest bird dealer? I can tell you that in China, 95% of the problem bird dealers are boasting wildly, pretending not to understand, selling old birds as chicks, hiding diseases, etc. And only a handful of bird dealers are honest. Therefore, how to choose the right bird dealer as the owner, we should do a good job of collecting information, understand the characteristics of parrots, and use our own knowledge to buy parrots, so as not to be easily confused by the lies of bird dealers.

It's not so much the bird dealers who cheat. In fact, many times, some bird dealers don't lie, but don't understand at all, so they often make a lot of jokes. For example, a bird dealer in a certain place called a small sunflower parrot in Feng Xuan, but the bird friend who bought it also thought it was sunflower, and the result was a joke. To judge the integrity of bird merchants, in addition to face-to-face communication, we might as well ask other bird friends about the local situation and the credibility of bird merchants. Don't buy birds on impulse.

Basic knowledge of raising parrots 3 staple food: egg millet (egg millet), put two eggs in a catty of millet, stir evenly to dry, and steam in a pot. The purpose of steaming is to sterilize at high temperature, and some germs will be killed. If the parrot wants to remove the eggs and millet during the incubation period, otherwise the male will disturb the female. So the eggs will not hatch and the chickens will die.

Eggs and millet are high in fat and cholesterol. Eggs and millet are very good nutrients. But if eaten as a staple food, it will lead to budgerigar obesity and affect reproduction. So we need to feed eggs and millet reasonably according to different growth stages. Now the egg millet is different from the past, and now more substances are added: honey, bone meal, fish meal, squid bone meal and various trace elements. Nowadays, eggs and millet are no longer suitable as staple food. The next issue will teach you how to make eggs and millet.

Complementary food: fruits and vegetables. Most people can eat fruits, such as bananas and apples, which are available all year round. You can feed them except pears. The stone of fruit should be removed, especially the stone of apple is poisonous, and parrots will die after eating it. You can usually feed vegetables with green vegetables, but you must not feed spinach, because eating spinach by parrots can cause intestinal diseases (enteritis).

Snacks: melon seeds, peanuts and carrots can increase the brightness of parrot feathers, especially during molting. Feeding carrots can make parrots colorful, yellow, golden and white.

Calcium supplement: The parrot with cuttlefish bone will peck several times when it needs calcium supplement, which not only supplements calcium but also grinds teeth, especially the female parrot, which can prevent soft-shelled eggs. My parrot has never broken, so we put a cuttlefish bone in the cage after eating.

Fitness ball: concrete and mixed ball, mainly used for calcium and minerals, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial. Wild parrots also eat clay near rivers.

Formula of fitness ball: red soil, cinder, limewater, electrolytic multivitamin, salt, vitamin AD3, vitamin B 12 and oxytetracycline. Detailed steps of making fitness balls Fitness balls can eliminate toxins left in the body due to grains and supplement trace elements and minerals. My parrot is only fed occasionally, and the little parrot should not be fed with health balls, because the parrot is very healthy, its body is not well developed and it cannot be fully absorbed.

Fitness balls are only suitable for adult parrots. During the breeding period, it is recommended that you take away the sanitary ball, because parrots are used to feed birds. If they eat fitness balls and feed them to birds, chickens will die.