The surroundings in the urban living are polluted with harsh screeching noise. The smoothening effect of a bird can be so nice and best natural therapy. There are different varieties of bird that can be used as pets. Finches, pigeons, doves, parrots, African greys parrots, amazon parrots, caiques, caanaries, cockatiels, cockatoo, conures, macaws, parotlet, parakeet, pionus, and rosella are a few birds that are grown as pets at home. Mostly, people like birds for their colorful and textured wings and soulful voice. There are different types of birds that can get your brain spoiled with the choice you are given with. Yet, based on your style and taste, you may choose your pet. These birds should be purchased with a commitment to take care of them till they are alive, as they have a long lifespan up to 50 years or even more.
Bird Food
Bird foods are usually seeds and cereals. These products are obtained from agriculture that is used to use in poultries. They’re different types of bird foods prepared, you may select them based on the birds you are having as a pet. In seed based bird foods, sunflower seeds, millet, safflower and Niger are the essential ingredients. They also contain a small portion of meat and high fat content. These seed foods can be given to birds such as goldfinches, sparrows, juncos, cardinals etc. The non seed bird foods contain suet that is rich in porn or mutton. They are very good choice for birds live on insects such as nuthatches, woodpeckers etc. Nectar based foods may be tried for humming birds. If you are having ducks and gulls as pets in the backyard, you may use bread or kitchen scraps for them. Chickens can also be good pets whom you can feed cereals namely maize, barley, sorghum, wheat. All these cereals are mixed together and are commonly known as chicken scratch. There are so many commercial foods available, based on the requirement they are classified as nonfarm and farm foods. Example, chick starter medicated crumbles, egg layer mash, egg layer crumbles, egg layer pellet, broiler maker med crumbles etc. While crumbles are tiny portions, mash is ground to fine sizes.