Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!iuvax!inuxc!inuxd!jla
From: jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: It's all your fault! (was Re: Hookbills)
Message-ID: <1282@inuxd.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 19:02:49 GMT
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> A primary natural function of hookbills is to spread seeds around.
Madeira (Blue-Front Amazon) puts her head down in the dish and
goes
  "BLLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLB"

And you think your bird can scatter seeds?  Let's have a contest!

> You should be aware that the common practice of simply providing seed
> mix for the birds does not provide a balanced diet for the bird. You

Here in the Florida Keys (KoKoMo), everyone has a hookbill.  A
favorite food is chicken leg bones (the drumstick).  I haven't
given any to Madeira, but others let their birds break the bones
open and eat the marrow.  I am afraid of pointed splinters of
bone (the reason you shouldn't give them to dogs and cats), but 
my friends tell me that the birds have a better crushing
apparatus than dogs and cats, and the marrow is good for them.
does anyone else feed chicken bones to their hookbills?

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	Joyce Andrews King                      
	att!inuxd!jla
	AT&T, Indianapolis
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