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that rings have stayed on the babies little legs. To enable good record keeping it is important to ring your young birds with current year rings obtainable from all ring suppliers, I use Avian ID in Truro, Cornwall email info@avianid.co.uk Tele 01872 262777. If you ring your young Budgerigars you can exhibit them in the current year bred classes at exhibitions just to see how closely your birds match the show standards for this species. With regards to the results from the


other three pairs I am afraid that these were not good. One hen died from egg binding when she tried to pass an overlarge egg. The other two pairs laid but none of their eggs were fertile which was rather unfortunate. All the pairs fortunately seem interested in eating my home made egg food so during the winter of 2014/15 and the 2015 spring I intend to add vitamin E to the diet through the egg food as it is claimed that the addition of this vitamin to the diet has a beneficial effect on fertility, I will see!


Homemade Egg Food Ingredients • Aldersons Horse and Pony Feed made from bakery and pasta by-products (wheat).


• Ferret food produced by Chudleys • 2 Standard sized eggs. • Water


I had previously been using Badminton Cooked Cereal Conditioning Meal (dried


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bread in a course powder) sold as a horse conditioner. However, this is no longer available and as I had found this to be a very useful ‘vehicle’ to cut the eggs and the ferret food I was rather disappointed at its removal from the market. I then went into ‘detective’ mode and tried to find out why it was no longer available, to cut a fairly long story short it appears that Aldersons were supplying their product to Badminton and it is the same product. Success, I had my cooked cereal back! On the bag is the following analysis:-


Per 100 grams Starch Sugar


ProteinNx Crude fibre Ash


56.7g 3.7g 6.3g 0.9g 7.0g


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