Pin-tails, with their soft beaks, are designed to eat large, fairly soft seeds ie green, soft rice

Wild-caught Pin-tails wouldn't eat livefood (even with chicks) nor much green food.  Domestic reared birds will eat livefood.   Also, watercress once or twice a week

Always available ad lib
Dry Seed Mix - a Graham Lee/ Dutch mix
8Kg - White Millet
7Kg - Plain Canary
3Kg - Plate Millet
3Kg - Japanese Millet
1Kg - Crushed Oats (Pinhead)
1Kg - Grass Seed or Bushwacker
 
 
Daily
Eggfood - (another Graham Lee/ Dutch mix)
500 gms - Cede Tropical™
500 gms - Cede Normal™
150 gms - Proboost™
100 gms - Wheatgerm
 60 gms - Vitamins
 10 gms - Pro-bird Herbmix™
   5 gms - Spirulina
 

adult cock Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

Needed - grit at all times plus crushed cuttlefish bone mixed with dry vitamins.   The vitamins give laying hens maximum supplementation

Mix will be ignored most of the time but suddenly will be consumed - a sure sign of laying

Just moistened with orange juice - to bind.   About a teaspoon of juice to 3 tablespoons of eggfood

Two teaspoons of eggfood, daily for 8 - 10 adults  Increase as required when chicks are being fed


Soaked seed - Graham's seed mix (and equal parts of paddy rice?).   2 or 3 tablespoons enough for 8 to 10 birds.  Vitamins - added to the soaked seed

Other breeders don't use Paddy Rice

A successful Dutch breeder hates it

I use EXCEPT when chicks are less than 12 days old

Invariably lethal if parents feed to such young chicks


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Pin-tails, with their soft beaks, are designed to eat large, fairly soft seeds ie green, soft rice

Wild-caught Pin-tails wouldn't eat livefood (even with chicks) nor much green food.  Domestic reared birds will eat livefood.   Also, watercress once or twice a week

adult cock Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

 
Always available ad lib
Dry Seed Mix - a Graham Lee/ Dutch mix
8Kg - White Millet
7Kg - Plain Canary
3Kg - Plate Millet
3Kg - Japanese Millet
1Kg - Crushed Oats (Pinhead)
1Kg - Grass Seed or Bushwacker
 
 

Needed - grit at all times plus crushed cuttlefish bone mixed with dry vitamins.   Vitamins give laying hens maximum supplementation

Mix ignored most of the time but suddenly will be consumed - a sure sign of laying

Daily
Eggfood - (another Graham Lee/ Dutch mix)
500 gms - Cede Tropical™
500 gms - Cede Normal™
150 gms - Proboost™
100 gms - Wheatgerm
 60 gms - Vitamins
 10 gms - Pro-bird Herbmix™
   5 gms - Spirulina
 

Just moistened with orange juice - to bind

About a teaspoon of juice to 3 tablespoons of eggfood

Two teaspoons of eggfood, daily for 8 - 10 adults  Increase as required when chicks are being fed


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Soaked seed - Graham's seed mix (and equal parts of paddy rice?)

Other breeders don't use Paddy Rice.   A successful Dutch breeder hates it

I use EXCEPT when chicks are less than 12 days old.  Invariably lethal if parents feed to such young chicks

2 or 3 tablespoons enough for 8 to 10 birds.   Vitamins - added to the soaked seed


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