CARE OF PARROTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 5, 21 December 1928, Page 3

CARE OF PARROTS

VISCOUNTNESS GREY'S HINTS ON FEEDING. LONDON, Oct. 27. Viscountess Grey of Fallodon, whose interest in birds is well known, ' lias written to the Press Association on the care of parrots. "Give the parrot,'' she writes, "some hips and haws and other hedge fruit now so plentifully in season. These are greatly relished. The softer haw-ber-ries are eaten eagerly by finches of all kinds, including canaries. "Vary your bird's diet. The deadly monotony of caged life should have every alleviation. Give your parrot shelled walnuts, pea-nuts, raisins, wild berries, the cabbage stump the cook throws away, and groundsel, with its root. Birds enjoy the little fibres with the soil adhering, for the sand sold for bird cages is so dry and dusty coinpared with the soft fresh earth. "A parrot will enjoy a sweet biscuit, rice pudding, or bread and butter, and so will birds of all kinds- And when you are arranging flowers in your room give the parrot the cut-off stems and leaves to play with. Parrots love a fresh bit of wood to bite—lime, willow, or hawthorn, am! the pruning? of fr>ji, t:"o-;. wind' sic umjuOv 'T.sfc awr<". TI-.i- i( - ? -::.c3 :o all bi.;b cl : the pcri'oi ir;'.:.."