How do budgerigar chicks tell the difference between males and females?

Generally, many people like to keep budgerigar now, because its cute appearance makes many people like it very much. So how to distinguish between male and female when raising it? The following is how I sorted out the budgerigar chicks for you, hoping it will help you.

The most accurate way for budgerigar chicks to distinguish between male and female budgerigars is to look at the color of the wax film on their noses. The color of wax film on male and female budgerigars of different sexes and ages is different. For example, an adult female budgerigar in estrus has a brown, uneven, wrinkled nasal wax membrane, and sometimes even a tilted stratum corneum; The brown wax film of adult female budgerigar in estrus or just estrus recedes and is replaced by ginger or white; The wax film color of adult male budgerigar in estrus is blue, or dark blue, which is completely different from that of female budgerigar.

For budgerigar chicks, the nasal wax film of the female bird is basically white, so special attention should be paid to the area around the nostrils, sometimes it is light pink, but if the middle area is white, it can be determined that it is a female bird; What doesn't have this feature is the male budgerigar chick.

In addition, for female budgerigars who are not mated or in estrus, the nasal wax film will show a faint blue outer ring, but the color around the nostrils is still white; However, the wax film of adult and affectionate male budgerigar will be obviously blue.

Common problems of budgerigar breeding in summer 1, vegetable feeding problems

Vegetables and fruits are important supplementary foods for budgerigars. Feeding vegetables and fruits often in summer has many benefits. However, the frequent problem is that a large number of vegetables and fruits are overeated, and there is a slight water and stool situation, and serious diarrhea begins. For example, when feeding vegetables, the bottom of the cage is almost full of vegetables, but there are only a pair of birds.

Coping method: 1. Eat vegetables and fruits in moderation; 2. Stop feeding vegetables and fruits immediately and add probiotics for birds (Mommy loves probiotics) to the water. If it is serious, use diarrhea medicine.

2, heatstroke, dehydration and not drinking water

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3. Food corruption

High temperature in summer makes food go bad easily, such as vegetables, fruits and soft food.

Coping method: When feeding vegetables, fruits or soft foods, don't put too much at a time, just the right amount. In hot and sultry conditions, food spoils very quickly, so the vegetables and fruits should be taken out after more than two hours to avoid food poisoning caused by food spoilage.

4. Drinking water problem

Like food, high temperature and drinking water in summer are quite easy to deteriorate. If nutrients such as electrolyte are added, the deterioration rate will be faster. Even boiling water, other millet (shells) or feces falling into drinking fountains will pollute drinking water.

Coping method: 1. If drinking water becomes turbid or feces fall in, it should be replaced in time. 2. It is best to change drinking water every day in summer, especially when supplementing electrolytes, vitamins and other nutrients. 3. Clean drinking utensils regularly.

5, hand heat preservation problem

In summer, many people don't use heat preservation equipment for convenience and economy. When the temperature is stable, there is generally no problem. However, it is rainy and typhoon in summer in southern China, and sudden rainfall (rainstorm, heavy rainstorm) often occurs, which brings short-term cooling and drastic temperature changes, which easily leads to problems in hand-raised chicks. Up to now, the official WeChat account has found 16 cases in the background these days, of which 7 cases died.

Coping methods: Pay more attention to the weather forecast and weather changes, and put them into the incubator in advance to avoid various problems caused by drastic weather changes.

6. Reproductive issues

High temperature in summer, the temperature in the breeding box is higher than the indoor temperature, which is easy to suffer from heatstroke and sudden death. After breeding in spring, summer is a very good time to adjust, repel insects and let birds rest. When breeding in autumn, birds with adjusted state will generally perform better and their offspring will be healthier.

Feed for budgerigars budgerigars (including all birds that eat cereals) like to eat feed with shells. Usually they take millet, millet and barnyard grass as the staple food, which is generally 50% millet, 20% millet, 20% barnyard grass and 65,438+00% other oilseeds. In order to avoid excessive chaff, some people can also average some millet in the staple millet and add some oil seeds such as perilla seeds and rapeseed slightly, which can make the nutrition richer and more comprehensive.

When it comes to millet, it's shell-less. Millet with shell is called millet in the vast areas in the north, especially in rural areas, and millet valley in some places in the south. The shell color of millet is usually yellow, with several colors such as light white, orange and black. Millet is the real millet after hulling.

Before mating and laying eggs during the breeding period, you can add some eggs and millet to help the eggs in estrus to fertilize, so you don't need to feed them after laying eggs, because it is easy for them to estrus again and abandon their nests if they continue to feed. Depending on the situation, you don't have to feed it. There is a cuttlefish bone hanging in the cage to supplement calcium. In fact, in addition to cuttlefish bones, there are egg shells, oyster powder and bone powder.