| Title: | Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN! |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 10 1988 |
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This is another sunflower question:
A friend has wild sunflowers that grew only the white sunflower
seeds. The wild birds eat these seeds but we are wondering if they
are okay to feed to our pet birds. Our friend didn't use any
pesticides. Can anybody help us?
Lise & Mike
Samantha, Tony, Petie and Beaker.
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| 274.1 | Color is not the problem | AVIAN::KIRSCHBAUM | And so it Goes... | Tue Oct 17 1989 18:24 | 13 |
The problem with sunflower seeds is not really the colour, but the fat
content. Feeding Sunflower to wild birds is not a problem, since
flying consumes lots of fat and energy.
Our pet birds, no matter how active, unless they are in very large
flights, do not require that much fat, and as in people, it puts an
unneccessary strain on the heart.
It is just easier to control our pets diets than our own [speaking from
experience :-)]
-dick
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| 274.2 | Maybe this will help | WR2FOR::COSTELLO_KE | Thu Jun 28 1990 19:25 | 10 | |
I don't know if this is the case with all birds, but my Military
Macaw always got very hyper and aggressive (to the point of biting
me hard) whenever I gave him sunflower seeds. Someone in a pet
store told me that this behavior was quite common with large birds
fed sunflower seeds because of the oil in the seed. It really wires
them out.
I hope that helps, somewhat anyway.
Kelly
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