| Feeding a wholesome, varied, and healthy diet is paramount to a cockatiel’s optimum well-being, peak performance and energy level. Whether your goal is hobby breeding, raising exhibition stock, or keeping a special companion, supplying a nutritious feed program is essential to maintaining a cockatiel’s optimal health, peak vitality and increasing its chances for a full, healthy life. Feeding a balanced, nutritious diet is key to preventing dietary-related illness, building a strong immune system to combat disease, and providing the stamina to endure environmental stresses that could otherwise overwhelm a malnourished bird. The diet you provide can influence the potential longevity and lifespan of your special companion or highly valued flock. Over the past two decades, leading manufacturers, universities, and researchers have conducted numerous studies in cockatiel nutrition in an attempt to find the most nutritious, palatable, and easy to feed diets. Diets lower in fat are frequently recommended to maintain long-term health in cockatiels and add years to their lives. According to some avian veterinarians, cockatiels can be more prone to fatty livers and tumors. Active cockatiels may do well on a diet that contains a fat ratio of 5 to 6 percent or thereabouts. However, some avian veterinarians may recommend an even lower range for far less active birds, or for those cockatiels already experiencing problems with obesity and overweight. A higher fat content is normally contained in cockatiel breeding diets for parent birds that are in the breeding cycle and feeding out their young. During my trip into the Australian Outback of St. George some years ago as an invited speaker to three Australian avicultural organizations, I had the privilege and opportunity to observe and track cockatiels in the wild. After following a flock from the sorghum fields to a grain mill on the rural outskirts where the birds were feasting on a sack of spilled grain, we noted two significant observations. First, a number of cockatiels in the flock were actually .. join now to read more in the next Chronicle. |
| "Providing Resources to the Cockatiel Community" The Cockatiel Foundation, founded in June 2007, began out of a growing need in the avicultural community to address all areas of cockatiel culture. The Foundation offers its members programs for pet owners, breeders and exhibitors, in addition to services never before addressed in the cockatiel community. CF is establishing a Cockatiel Adoption & Placement Program necessary for the placement and rehoming of cockatiels to new, permanent "forever" homes. CF address the needs of our Youth Members in the CF Youth & Education Program developed for tomorrows' next generation of cockatiel aviculturists. Additional special interest programs include: Companion Care Nutrition Avian Medicine Hobby Breeding Professional Breeding Color Mutations Genetics Exhibition and more ... The Cockatiel Foundation serves all cockatiel owners needs - from breeders, exhibitors, and pet companion bird owners - to cockatiel adoption, placement and youth education for tomorrows cockatiel afficianados. Please read our Membership benefits and peruse the website. When you join as a CF Member, you will have access to the Members' Only Area. COME JOIN US! |
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| DIET, OBESITY & LONGEVITY IN COCKATIELS © 2007 LINDA S. RUBIN CF President & Panel Judge Certified Avian Specialist, Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council "All Rights Reserved" |
C. 2005 Linda S. Rubin
Sneak peek: Volume 1, No. 2 ...
About the Author
Linda S. Rubin is a book author, speaker, judge and avian educator of
30 years, with an international byline in avicultural magazines around
the world and author of several books at www.CockatielsPlusParrots.
com. She is the cockatiel expert columnist for Bird Talk’s website,
BirdChannel.com and is the pet bird columnist for Australia's Talking
Birds magazine. Linda is founding president of the Cockatiel
Foundation, Inc.; she serves on the board of directors of the American
Federation of Aviculture, Inc., and as a certified panel judge for the
Cockatiel Foundation and the Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors
judging shows throughout the US, Puerto Rico and Canada since 1984.
Linda S. Rubin is a book author, speaker, judge and avian educator of
30 years, with an international byline in avicultural magazines around
the world and author of several books at www.CockatielsPlusParrots.
com. She is the cockatiel expert columnist for Bird Talk’s website,
BirdChannel.com and is the pet bird columnist for Australia's Talking
Birds magazine. Linda is founding president of the Cockatiel
Foundation, Inc.; she serves on the board of directors of the American
Federation of Aviculture, Inc., and as a certified panel judge for the
Cockatiel Foundation and the Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors
judging shows throughout the US, Puerto Rico and Canada since 1984.
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