Or please don't turn on the stray light when taking pictures, and there are pictures of feces
Long feathered food:
In order to let them molt smoothly, it is best to keep quiet during this period, don't move, don't buy new birds, and don't let ADHD children come home to play. The older you get, the greater your molting reaction will be. Violent molting usually makes them want to sleep and be in a daze. Their small bodies need enough energy and nutrition to make new feathers. In a word, the formation of new feathers and the quality of new feathers (luster, flexibility, etc.) are related to the bird's own health and usual diet. Therefore, the better birds eat and drink, the easier it is to molt. Of course, the "good" here does not refer to the pearl powder of delicacies, but to the correct and suitable food. The feathers replaced by malnourished birds are usually dull, crisp and easy to break and fall off.
Nutrition is not enough. Give 2 Lycium barbarum every month, not much.
Foods rich in silicic acid. Simply put, feather is a kind of horniness. How does keratin form? It needs a lot of nutrients, of which silicic acid accounts for a large proportion. What food is rich in silicic acid? Cucumber. Pippi can be given a small piece of cucumber every day during molting (don't give it when the human body feels cold! ）。 In addition, there are melons, long-haired jinggu grass and spelt wheat, especially spelt wheat. There is also quite a lot of silicic acid in millet, wheat and oats.
In addition, sulfur-containing amino acids play an important role in the formation of keratin. Wheat is its main source, so feed more wheat during molting. However, the wheat is so hard that many domestic birds are discouraged, so you can soak the wheat for a few hours or cover the buds before feeding it. Other sulfur-containing amino acids are pea pods, celery, carrots and fennel (* Wait, isn't it said that raw pea pods is poisonous ... should it be cooked before feeding? Or use carrots instead ... *).
Iodine supplement: water chestnut (* this dish is similar to spinach in many aspects, delicious and healthy, and the oxalic acid content is not low. Please consider the children's paper that resolutely resists spinach *) and red cabbage head (* Pippi in Russia is blessed *).
Zinc supplement: broccoli. Many birds don't like broccoli, so they can put it in water and boil it for a while before feeding it. Remember, never add oil and salt to it (* explain: adding oil is easy to indigestion, adding salt is easy to hurt the kidney *).
Because Pippi usually only eats a small portion of fruits and vegetables every day, it is best to give them different ones every day, seven days a week, so that Pipi can try a little of each. Gradually, the owner will find that the bird's feathers are getting more and more watery.
Nutritional additives:
If Pippi turns a blind eye to fresh fruits and vegetables or soaked seeds and doesn't bother to smell them (* this is more common in Pippi who was not taken good care of as a child *), then the owner can try to add proper nutrients to his daily diet. There is a kind of silicate soil in the pharmacy (please buy pure silicate soil, which does not contain other additives). Please buy and use it under the guidance of a professional doctor or professional breadwinner.
There is a kind of tea called Equisetum, which can also be used to supplement silicic acid. This tea can be searched in the pharmacy. Tea should be brewed lightly, and after cooling, add a little glucose or honey before feeding. Of course, you can also pick fresh Equisetumarvense and feed it to Pippi, as long as it is not pesticides.
Note: If birds suffer from acute or chronic kidney diseases, please don't feed glucose or honey. Even if you do, please feed very little, so as not to increase the burden on the kidneys. For healthy Pippi, you can add a flat teaspoon of glucose or a teaspoon of honey to 100 ml of tea.
In addition, liquid vitamins can also be added to drinking water. However, please consult a doctor or expert for vitamin supplement. Powders such as Korvimin or AviConcept can also be sprinkled on food.
During molting, some Pippi will be in a bad mood, have a bad temper, have a poor appetite, be listless, and lose weight sharply. Then, move out all their usual favorite foods and make a long list. There is a kind of Dongdong, called Susui, which is the original appearance of millet growing in nature, and it is an irresistible temptation for almost all Pippi (* friends who want to have a relationship with Pipira have their ears pricked up, so hurry and buy it *).
Although Suzui always carries the title of "fat bomb", experts always advise bird people not to feed too much, but in fact Pipi can still eat it once or twice. Moreover, the fat content of millet ear is much lower than that of hemp seed, Niger seed or sunflower seed. As long as you don't just feed the ears of millet, it's nothing serious, because birds usually eat too much uncontrollably and get fat easily. If the birds are too thin, or nothing smells good, get some millet ears to feed them. Of course, it is best to add some other nutrients.
During molting, some Pippi will be in a bad mood, have a bad temper, have a poor appetite, be listless, and lose weight sharply. Then, move out all their usual favorite foods and make a long list. There is a kind of Dongdong, called Susui, which is the original appearance of millet growing in nature, and it is an irresistible temptation for almost all Pippi (* friends who want to have a relationship with Pipira have their ears pricked up, so hurry and buy it *).
I am most worried about the molting of France because there is no good cure at present.
Supplementing fresh and clean fruits and vegetables (refer to 1 floor link)
Appropriate increase in vitamin and mineral feed ingredients to speed up the shedding of old feathers. To molt, vitamins should be supplemented, and at the same time, protein feed should be added to further strengthen nutrition and accelerate the growth of new feathers.
In addition, carrots or vegetables containing carotene can be fed during molting to increase the depth of feather color.
Females are generally not as long as male feathers, but they are similar.