{"id":23078,"date":"2022-01-31T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birds-online.de\/wp\/?page_id=23078"},"modified":"2024-05-07T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:08:16","slug":"native-grasses-cereals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.birds-online.de\/wp\/en\/birds-online-english\/nutrition\/healthy-bird-food-from-nature\/native-grasses-cereals\/","title":{"rendered":"Native grasses and cereals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t
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    Native grasses and cereals<\/h2>\n\n\n
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    A very tasty addition to the diet of many pet birds are native wild grasses and some grains, which are basically nothing more than certain cultivated forms of species from the botanical family of grasses. Most budgies and many other bird species are happy to eat grasses collected from nature, often without a long acclimatization period. One of the reasons for this is certainly that, especially for seed eaters such as budgies, the half-ripe grasses come very close to the natural food of their wild relatives – in Australia, wild budgies mainly eat half-ripe and ripe Spinifex grass. In my experience however, other bird species, whose wild relatives are not necessarily seed eaters, are also very fond of half-ripe grasses. It is probably the sweet taste of our native grasses that appeals to the birds.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Compared to ripe seeds, semi-ripe grasses contain considerably less fat. They are easy to digest and are therefore even eaten in many cases by birds that are suffering from painful digestive diseases. Half-ripe grasses are therefore a healthy food for most birds and a good “diet food” in case of illness, which does not burden the digestive tract. It is also good for \u201cthe slim line”. Served during the rearing of young, half-ripe wild grasses are a valuable feed for both adult birds and young chicks because, as already explained, they are easy to digest and contain a number of nutrients that are important for both chicks and adult birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Further down on this page you will find a list of associated chapters describing some common and widespread wild grass species and important grains. This chapter also provides some basic details about collecting and feeding wild grasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Click on the list entries to go directly to the relevant sections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n