Coltsfoot

[Guest chad3646]

for buy the snowdrop, the coltsfoot is one of the earliest flowers to appear , itis a great conditioner for wild birds, as soon as it stops flowering and begins to go to seed they are on it like a flash,the goldie , bullie, greenie,, all sorts of birds , when it dies away you then get the dandelion, chickweed, there are all sorts seeds in the wild, the only one i have tried with the pigeons is the chicken weed that,s because i saw some feral pigeons eating it , my pigeons just pecked it and left it, why eat chicken weed when you can get fillet steak lol

 

has anyone tried seeds from the wild on there birds be it pigeons , canaries , british

[peter2010]

My dad used to get me to collect dandelions for his canaries before they opened up he'd cut the tops and but a big bunch in they eat all the seeds out them in jig time

[andy Burgess]

have had youngsters eat Haws before and ending up being sick have also had them eat dandelions and , flew very well indeed .

[Guest Owen]

I am sure you are right because there must be very high quality food in wild seed if you have the time and patience to collect it.

When I bred small birds in an aviary I used to tie bunches of seeding grasses, dandelions and anything else I could think of to the top of the aviary. The birds enjoyed the seed and the exercise they got from flying up to it all day also did them good.

[Guest chad3646]

correct owen, fifty odd years ago i had canaries and odds and sorts in the aviary

 

i had a pair of canaries in a cage, i used to go out and gather all sorts of seeds, i did not know

 

 

what they were, the canaries in the cage were my guinea pigs, i tried them out on them,, if they

 

 

survived the seed was good, knapweed, burdoch,sow thistle plantain , and the grasses you mentioned

 

comes to mind . happy days

[Guest stb-]

for buy the snowdrop, the coltsfoot is one of the earliest flowers to appear , itis a great conditioner for wild birds, as soon as it stops flowering and begins to go to seed they are on it like a flash,the goldie , bullie, greenie,, all sorts of birds , when it dies away you then get the dandelion, chickweed, there are all sorts seeds in the wild, the only one i have tried with the pigeons is the chicken weed that,s because i saw some feral pigeons eating it , my pigeons just pecked it and left it, why eat chicken weed when you can get fillet steak lol

 

has anyone tried seeds from the wild on there birds be it pigeons , canaries , british

HI chad colts foot is poison mate it is now well known to cause liver damage although at one time it was considered to have good properties in the seed heads but with todays no how its now considred bad for birds . :emoticon-0167-beer:

[Guest chad3646]

HI chad colts foot is poison mate it is now well known to cause liver damage although at one time it was considered to have good properties in the seed heads but with todays no how its now considred bad for birds . :emoticon-0167-beer:

 

 

who is going to tell the bird,s but in saying that, did you see the attenborrough programme about the

 

red and blue macaws, they eat poisonous seeds then after they had there fill they flew to this cliff face and started gorging themself with , i think it was kaolin to counter act the seeds the wild birds may be doing something similar to this

 

nature you will never beet it

[Guest stb-]

who is going to tell the bird,s but in saying that, did you see the attenborrough programme about the

 

red and blue macaws, they eat poisonous seeds then after they had there fill they flew to this cliff face and started gorging themself with , i think it was kaolin to counter act the seeds the wild birds may be doing something similar to this

 

nature you will never beet it

yes the macaws eat the clay on the river banks which removes the toxins , wild birds prob eat sommit similar to counteract the toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the plant , ive never given colts foot to my canaries as my old man always said it was bad for em, dandelions chickweed etc magic

Edited April 16, 2013 by stb-

[walterboswell59]

have had youngsters eat Haws before and ending up being sick have also had them eat dandelions and , flew very well indeed .

heard some old guys years ago say the made dandelion tea for there birds

[walterboswell59]

funny thing to when i was getting problems with ybs i had noticed my yb would gorge on the leaves of a small shrub in my garden which would make them vomit everything out there crop wondered if the y were trying to cure them selves the old birds would not go near it

[Guest stb-]

funny thing to when i was getting problems with ybs i had noticed my yb would gorge on the leaves of a small shrub in my garden which would make them vomit everything out there crop wondered if the y were trying to cure them selves the old birds would not go near it

heebe shrubs and seedum the young birds eat and then are seek as it irritates there crop