By
Rosemary Low
Soft Cover, 153 pages,
45 colour photos.
Author
Rosemary Low has drawn on her own experiences, then consulted and collaborated
with several specialist avian vets to provide practical advice on effective
diets. Each chapter is easy to read, with the technical or scientific detail
well explained and easy to follow. The book includes a glossary of terms.
Rosemary
starts by giving practical advice on effective methods to deliver nutrition to
your birds to avoid contamination and stress. There are details on the
nutritional values of and the differences and uses of pellets and extruded
feeds, nutritional components in seed mixtures, fruits, vegetables and flowers.
The importance of calcium and other minerals and how best to provide these
health essentials is also outlined. The selection of suitable seeds and grains
for soaking, sprouting and pulses, and their benefits are highlighted.
The
latter chapters of the book deal with foods for raising baby birds and
requirements for the main parrot families and those birds requiring specialist
diets, such as lories and lorikeets. The final three chapters give an overview
of wild diets of birds in Australia, Africa and South America.
This valuable
reference provides you with the knowledge and stimulus to investigate more on
nutrition in a quest to present a more varied and nutritious diet to your
birds.