Thursday, July 15, 2010
Food
A shama that enjoys its dry food will peck and eat each granule from the cup. If a granule inadvertently falls on the cage floor, it may even hop down to pick it up. If a shama swishes the dry food with its beak so that some is scattered on the cage floor, it is not because it is a fussy or messy eater. The probable reason is that it does not recognize or fully accept that what is on offer is food. If the shama is recently being taught to eat dry food, insects should be cut and mixed with the dry food until the bird readily eats the dry food. If the bird has previously been eating its dry food well, consider the possible causes for the bird being put off its food and take remedial action.
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Good Day David....
ReplyDeleteMaybe out of topic, am looking at providing good dried food for my Shamas.
Currently am feeding my Shamas Sing Song / Emas 10 dried food and there is lots of wastage on the bottom. Unfortunately the P28 dried food ( good reviews ) is not available in MY.
Any other alternative which has the similar ingredients content to P28 that is available in MY ?
Where else life food is 10 to 15 crickets perday ( morning and evening ), roaches, guppies and meal worms. ( five to 10 worms )
Thanks in advance
A shama that enjoys its dry food will peck and eat each granule from the cup. If a granule inadvertently falls on the cage floor, it may even hop down to pick it up. If a shama swishes the dry food with its beak so that some is scattered on the cage floor, it is not because it is a fussy or messy eater. The probable reason is that it does not recognize or fully accept that what is on offer is food. If the shama is recently being taught to eat dry food, insects should be cut and mixed with the dry food until the bird readily eats the dry food. If the bird has previously been eating its dry food well, consider the possible causes for the bird being put off its food and take remedial action.
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