Some of the popular domestic pets are parrots. Their content does not require large monetary and time costs. They are placed in a spacious cage, the best walk for the parrots - Flying around the room. However, there are several rules of care that you need to know so that your bird remains healthy for a long time and pleased you.
Fundamental rules
Before buying a feather friend, you must familiarize yourself with how to care for it.
- Buy a spacious cage and install it at the level of your eyes. Equip it with a few pazers, drinking, two troughs. You can put river sand or egg shell, which helps the digestion of birds.
- Remember that the poultry house must be protected from drafts. The optimal temperature of the content ranges from +18 to +25 s, do not place the cage near the heating devices. Air humidity is suitable 45-70%. There must be sufficient illumination with natural or artificial light.
- Current cleaning in the cell is made daily. At the same time remove the litter, the husks from the grains, change the water in the drinking. The general cleaning can be done once a month. Wipe all the rods of the cell, the pancakes dipped in the chamomile. Approximately once every 3 months handle the cell with soda (100 g per 1 liter of water).
- Parrots do not like loud sounds Therefore, you should not listen to music or TV at full volume. Also reduce the overall noise level, do not collect large companies at home. Feather friend will get used to you and atmosphere in the house for a long time. Do not take a bird first time.
- Parrots love to fly. Give them this opportunity after the adaptation period. To do this, close all windows in the room and strain them, because birds are crashed into glazed opening. Leave your pet as soon as he arrives and wants to eat, he will return to the cage.
- If your feathered friend is bored, hang next to its pancro. Then he will think that the female and will begin to recover with his reflection.
Necessary subjects
The subjects of the essentials that allow you to properly contain a pet can be attributed to the cage, volatile, grain feed, feeder, and drill. All this should be before buying a pet. Pay attention to the choice of feed. It should consist of high-quality components, unacceptably the use of eurminated europeanis.
It is also important to monitor the quality of water, it is unacceptable to be chlorinated. Do not use water from under the tap. Better if it is bottled. Mineral stone will be required to care for the beak. To bathe your favorite, get a special bath for him. For the joy of the parrot, get toys and objects for the cage:
- ladies;
- rings;
- bell;
- swing.
There are also whole game complexes for birds that are located in the room. You can how to buy them, and do it yourself from the girlfriend. To keep the cell clean, you need paper. Buy the packaging of cheap paper, warper it on the bottom of the cell. After contamination, change the new sheet.
On the recommendation of the owners for these purposes, you can also use paper towels. But the newspapers should not take due to typographic paint. If it falls inside, then your feathered friend will poison.
Parrots are focused on the sun. If it rose, then and their day begins.
If it does not suit you, cover the cage on the night with a dense bedspread, and when the lift simply remove it. It will help keep your sleep.
What to feed?
We have already found out that for feathered pets in the pet store you will find special grain feed. Recall once again that you pay attention to the integrity of the packaging and the expiration date. Since good food is the guarantee of the health of your favorite. Parrots are contraindicated fried, sharp, salt food, so it is undesirable to treat them from its table. There are several ways to diversify the menu of your friend.
- Fruits. There is an opinion that the parrots do not like them. However, before approving this, it is still worth offering useful delicacy to your friend. Fruits should be extremely fresh, pre-washed, purified from peel and sliced into small pieces. Please note that the parrots can not fruit persimmon, mango, avocado and papaya. The remaining fruits can be provided with good tolerability.
- Vegetables. It is not recommended to give parrots onions, celery, radishes and radish. Carrots, cucumber, various types of cabbage, pepper, corn, peas, tomatoes are fitted perfectly. Vegetables must be fresh, clean, sliced on small pieces.
- Greens. Parrots do not tolerate fragrant herbs, so limit the cilantro, celery and dill in the diet. Let's a little greenery daily. Use the beets of the beets, various leaves of salads, clover, plantain, spinach, burdock, meadow disintegration. Natural foliage will enrich the diet of your favorite and nourish it with vitamin C.
- Pernaya all gnaw. To meet these reflexes, it is recommended to give them different branches. Lime and maple branches, as well as willow, cherries, alder, rowan, currant, pears - all this will suit your pet. There are also some home plants that will get a parrot to taste: bamboo, calangean, palm, hibiscus, citrus trees. It is forbidden to give acacia, lilac, oak, cherry, poplar and ease.
Before you offer your favorite delicacy, soak the branches in cool water for 5-6 hours, then rinse them thoroughly and hide with boiling water.
Remember that some products can harm your pet:
- salt;
- milk;
- chocolate;
- bread.
How to wash?
The problem of bathing acutely gets up in front of the parrot owner, if the feathery does not like to wash. It would seem that this is not required. But not everything is so simple. Since the bird flies throughout the rooms, once dirty, she will break the dirt throughout the house. Let's consider the instruction of a successful bathing.
- If the pet does not like when it touches, then it is best to wrap it with a towel.
- Then lock the head. To do this, holding the caller, take the bird under the cheek.
- Lighting in the bathroom should not be too bright. Use muffled light.
- With strong pollution, use a soap solution. It should be applied with light massaging movements towards the growth of feathers. Strictly make sure that soap does not fall into the eyes and beak.
- Use natural methods for drying. Do not use hair dryers or heaters.
For fans of water procedures, swimming is much easier. Type in the appropriate capacity of water temperature, and your pet will do everything.
Some species love flowing water. Then adjust the water temperature and provide complete freedom of action.
Useful recommendations
With the content of the parrots at home, they must be picked up with vitamins and microelements. Vitamins are needed in spring and autumn, as well as during diseases and in the period of molting. In veterinary pharmacies you can find ready-made mixes for parrots.
If you want to use natural substances, then lemon juice or honey in small concentrations can be added to the rocker. Approximately 3-4 drops per 100 ml of water. Mineral substances are necessary for strong bones, feathers and beak.
Feed your favorite with a crowded egg shell or chalk about once a month, and then he will feel good and long to delight you.
Education
Most often, the Parrots owners are asked if their pet can speak. Teach speech is possible any parrot.
- The learning process should produce that person who is not afraid of.
- Start with simple phrases, for example, from the name of a domestic pet.
- Your intonations must be soft, and the confusion is friendly. Take patience, you will need 2 months to six months so that the pet spoke.
- Remember that you can only teach speech only if your parrot lives alone. When he learn to talk, boldly buy him a friend.
Reproduction
Parrots willingly multiply in captivity. For this birds should like each other. If the male begins to show his attention to the female, be prepared for the appearance of chicks. Be sure to buy a house to surfacing eggs. In the masonry can be from 8 to 10 eggs. The female demolides them every other day 1-2, after which it is accepted.
After 18-21 days, the first chick hatch, his brothers and sisters will appear after him. Most often parrots bring offspring in winter.
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