JONTER STUD JTR1

One of the best pieces of advice we ever read or heard about is you only get out of your birds what you put into them,  our birds get a varied diet, we feed them a mixture of plain canary seed, red millet seed, white millet seed, panicum, japanese millet seed and also scottish tonic seed.  As we breed all year round they also get soft food and millet sprays,  we add cous cous, dried carrots, pinhead oatmeal,  sweetcorn and groats to our soft food mix and on alternative days we use ground seaweed instead of the dried carrot.  In the summer months we feed chickweed, fennel, lettuce, beetroot,  broccoli and spinach which the birds thoroughly enjoy,  the only time we dont feed beetroot is during show season as it stains the masks of the birds,  they are also given seeding grasses and eucalyptus leaves and branches as this is an antiseptic tree and is very good for the gut bacteria for the bird,  it is also one of the favourite nesting and chewing tree's in their natural habitat.  We also put finger drawers of hormova in all breeding cages to aid fertility along with oyster shell grit,  iodine blocks and cuttlefish bone,  we add vanadine 18 to all water drinkers at all times which helps combat bacteria in the crop since we started using this in the water we have never been troubled with crop infections in our birds.

We find this feeding system very nutritious and benificial to our birds, the birds also look forward to their added extras when given.

The information on this page might not work for everyone it is just set down as a guideline for the newcomers to this hobby as there is many feeding options available from fancier to fancier.