TREATMENT OF CAGE-BIRDS.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXVI, Issue 3364, 8 March 1915, Page 4

TREATMENT OF CAGE-BIRDS.

A great many people who keep cagebirds do not understand their correct treatment during illness, and many do not even know the common symptoms of illness in birds, and allow their favourites to pine and die out of sheer

ignorance. .. Now, when birds are ill they puff out their feathers a.v 3 act-as if going Ito sleep, frequently burying their heads in the breast or wing feathers for hours at a time. V.'hen. a bird acts in this way it should ft once be re-

moved to a quiet roc-3, or covered lightly up, so as not to I: disturbed. .If the trouble is nothing out the ordinary, two or three drops of tincture of iron put into the drinking water will probably put matters right. Or-perhaps the bird requires a little rough fs'rit to a:d digestion. No cagebird can bo kept in health that is not supplied with plenty of gilt—broken oyster-shells and the like. When a bird takes .to pulling out his 'cathers, try "giving it a little raw frc^N meat: and supply'plenty of grecM food.

Never hang one cage above 1 ihe level of another cage in the same room. At night the bird in'the lower cage willtry to fly through the top of the cage in crder to get on the same level with llie other. Many a valuable bird is sciiously injured, and sometimes killed, from this.cnt:sc.