what kind of food besides seeds,broclli,carrots can you give canarys! i will give out good ratings!?

Answer 1

Our canaries go nuts over fresh corn, silverbeet, beans and small amounts of fruit. In the summer, we chop up some silverbeet and freeze it for them or give them frozen corn. They love it. They also love fresh seeded grass from the back yard. You can try almost any fresh produce (especially greens) except for Avocados.

Answer 2

When I raised canaries I tried to make sure they had a varied diet. The foods you mentioned are good, but here are some more things. I used to feed mixed frozen vegetables thawed out, cooked sweet potato, whole grain bread, hard boiled egg with the shell, kale, apple, orange, millet, and cuttlebone. Don't use iceberg lettuce or raw spinach. The lettuce will give them diarrhea, the spinach has small traces of toxins.

One of their favorite things was an egg bread that I made. I would take a box of corn bread mix and add a dozen eggs, including the crushed up shell. Sometimes I would add vegetables to it, sometimes not. Mix well and bake in a 9x13 pan until brown. Cut in little squares and freeze. I would feed one square a day during molt and breeding. Outside of that I would feed maybe 2 times a week. My birds loved it.

Something else you can give them are dandelion greens and the heads of the dandelion just before it goes to seed. You have to be very very careful doing this thought. Make sure there are no pesticides sprayed on them! You could plant some in a pot, perhaps.

Answer 3

What is the basic Canary diet?
The "white bread" of Canary nutrition is a seed mix consisting of 70% Canary Seed and 30% Rape. This is often called "Black and White."

5.2 What fresh foods are required?
EVERY DAY the birds must get a high protein food. Most breeders use chopped hard-boiled chicken egg, a special "nestling" food, or a mixture of the two. During the breeding and moulting seasons, the Canaries should get as much of this as they will eat. At other times, a half-teaspoon per bird (a treat cup full), per bird, per day will do. The hard-boiled egg spoils quickly. Care must be taken in warm weather. Any fruit, vegetable, or green that is used for human consumption, with the exception of avocado, can be offered to Canaries. Canned corn is an especially loved and nutritious item.

5.3 What is soaked seed? Are sprouts the same thing?
Dry cracked corn, wheat, safflower, oil sunflower, and buckwheat can be put in jar with water in the refrigerator and allowed to soak overnight. This softens the hull and breaks complex carbohydrates into sugars. This soaked seed is very valuable when the birds are feeding their nestlings.
Mung beans and many other seeds can be fed as sprouts. Soak the seed in water for 24 hours. Drain completely and then rinse in a strainer under running cold tap water. Rinse in the strainer every day, until the seed sprouts. If any mold develops, discard the batch and drain it better next time. The container that the sprouting seed is in must have some air flow. A paper towel held in place by a rubber band works great.


5.4 What other items should be fed?
Small pieces of whole wheat bread or corn bread are greatly relished by Canaries.
Canaries should always have Cuttlebone and mineral grit.


5.5 How do you give Canaries vitamins?
Vitamins can be mixed with the water. Follow the directions precisely. ALWAYS change at the water at least once a day.
Cod's Liver Oil and Wheat Germ Oil can be mixed with the seed to fortify it with vitamins A, D, and E. One teaspoon of each is mixed with ten pounds of seed. DON'T USE ANY MORE THAN THAT! If you have only a few birds, make smaller batches, for the treated seed quickly becomes rancid in warm weather. Some of the major seed companies produce good brands of vitamin fortified seed. There are a lot of hucksters selling "colored" bird seed. The colors are nothing but food coloring! Some mix a vitamin powder with the seed. This all gets lost when the birds hull the seed.


5.6 Do Canaries need pellets?
A variety of pellets and other processed foods are now sold for Canaries. If you wish to try these new dietary items out on your birds, go right ahead. I suggest that pellets be only one facet of canary nutrition. Pellets can serve as a dietary supplement. Always offer a variety of foods to your birds. If your flock refuses to consume the pellets, this is not a cause for alarm!

5.7 Should bird food be kept in the refrigerator?
The refrigerator is a good place to store bird feed. Use a Zip Lock bag, or a Tupperware style container, to keep out moisture. In the cooler, all bird food, even pellets and vitamin enriched seeds, will last a long time.

5.8 I notice grubs and moths in the seed. Is this dangerous?
Cold storage also prevents the development of feed moths. The moths and larvae are themselves harmless. Don't worry about a few of these insects in the seed or bird room. Under warm conditions, the moths will quickly spread. If large numbers are present, discard the feed.

5.9 Are fountain feeders a good idea?
Deep dishes should be used for canaries. The "fountain" style dispensers are useless for the birds will constantly spill all the seed out, wasting it.

5.10 What other seeds do Canaries eat?
Many seeds can be fed to Canaries. Thistle, Oat Groats, shelled sunflower and Hemp are great favorites These oily seeds must be rationed as they are very fattening.
Wild seeds can be gathered and fed to canaries. The green, ripe, "milky" seeds are very nutritious. Wild Thistle and Sunflowers with small seeds are Canary favorites. (If you find a source of budding Hemp in the great outdoors, best to keep quiet about it!

Be sure that the wild plants are not contaminated with toxic or noxious substances and are not naturally poisonous.


5.11 How often do Canaries require food and water?
Keep seed and water before the Canaries at all times. Small birds can starve to death or dehydrate in very few hours.

Answer 4

suet< I think that's how you spell it. It is used for outdoor wild birds. You can buy it at Wal-mart. it's a combination of things. Just break some up and put it in the feeder.

Answer 5

I think small pices of bread will do. Do make sure they are small. The bird might choke on them!!

Answer 6

I'm not completely sure but a bit of fruit is ok.

Answer 7

we used to give ours apples and they loved it

Answer 8

Pork chops.