Their aviary is 10 feet long and protected on three sides with sheeting, ¾ of the roof is covered in glass fibre sheeting which allows light through, the remaining ¼ has only Twilweld and this overhangs the last 2’ 6” of the aviary giving access both to rain and natural daylight.


the weather is above freezing I provide germinated seed every day and they also receive egg food on a Wednesday and Saturday each week, I like to feed this not only because it supplements the food consumed with animal protein but also it keeps them familiar with the fare I


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provide throughout the breeding season. The recipe for my egg food is at the end of this article. I am becoming more certain that birds benefit greatly from being housed in flights that have access to natural daylight and the beneficial ultra violet light that it contains. Australian parakeets can be kept and bred indoors quite successfully for a year or even two but soon the birds start to look old and the breeding results quickly deteriorate, more likely than not due to the lack of direct natural light. Humans who remain indoors constantly soon become sallow in appearance and miss the beneficial properties of natural daylight. My Pennant’s Rosellas were fine throughout the 2014/15 winter without


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