Bird Food and Water Dishes
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There are various types of good dishes and containers that you can use to feed your birds, including earthenware, glass, metal or plastic. Use a metal container for birds with strong beaks, such as parrots. They are more likely to destroy any flimsy dishes and may swallow the fragments they have chewed off. A heavy earthenware bowl is advisable for nectar feeders, such as lorikeets, and some soft bills. These birds tend to tip their bowl up every day, scattering the contents over the floor, and the extra weight of an earthen ware container should prevent this happening.
Plastic dishes and glass tube dispensers with plastic spouts are fine for smaller seed eaters.
Nectar feeders are not only messy when eating, but they also tend to bathe in their food fish. To prevent this, place a piece of wire grid with a mesh size of 5 cm (2 in) over the bowl; this will enable the bird to eat but not bathe.
If is vital to provide the correct size and style of water dish for your birds, an over sized water dish, for example, can result in your birds drowning. In a large aviary containing many small birds, there should be a shallow water dish so that the birds can bathe in their water. If the bowl is too deep and the sides are too steep, however, a bird may not be able to get out and, when realizing this, panic and drown.
A typical food dish made up for soft bills should feature a variety of fruits, some pre made soft bill diet and some live food. You should keep the meal worms separate from the fruit in the bird food dish. It is always a good idea to feed a variety of foods to your birds. For parrots, do not chop everything into small pieces; they will enjoy chewing it up. Of course, they will make a terrible mess in the process, but this is their natural behavior
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