Parrots of the macaw
One of its kind parrots of the macaw create the feeling of an eternal holiday - bright,colorful, fervent birds will not leave indifferent any of those who are lucky enough to "communicate" with them. These parrots gave us America - South and part of Central, but it can hardly be said that the ara miss their home. Many fans of exotic birds in our country and in the near abroad create them excellent living conditions in their apartments and country houses.
These handsome men are very much appreciated and, moreover, are listed in the Red Book, so they rarely appear on sale. Parrots are the most expensive of all those kept in captivity. Their cost reaches $ 20,000. These birds reach 95 cm in length, and still boast the strongest beak on earth. Their feathers can be painted in all shades of green, red, blue and yellow.
If you properly keep the ara and take care of it, the bird quickly gets used to the owner and is easy to learn the conversation and training. With rough handling, the parrots become veryaggressive, thereby presenting a great danger to others - with their powerful beak they destroy everything around and shout loudly (as well as cockatoo).
The ara has a very sharp voice, and their cry for most people becomes torture. But the macaw that is content with its life is quiet andcalm bird. Therefore, when choosing a house for keeping at home, you must necessarily familiarize yourself with the nature and habits of the bird, so that in the future there will be no trouble.
Most of the large parrots, includingara, has a wonderful memory, so they remember for a long time and easily recognize a person who ever frightened them or caused some harm. Therefore, when handling such birds, you should be especially careful, otherwise lose the trust of the bird to you forever. As well as for all large species of parrots, for the contents of the macaw is required all-metal cage.
For one parrot is best to choosetetrahedral cell with a flat opening top or domed. In the middle there should be one or two perches, toys, a feeder, a drinking bowl. The cage must be spacious, so that the parrot can freely spread its wings.
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At home, feeding this kind of parrots is not so difficult. It differs little from the diet of cockatoos andother large parrots. The basis is grain. Ara eat all kinds of grain feeds, but most of all they love corn, sunflower, peas. With less desire they eat oats, millet, wheat, barley - perhaps because these grains are small in size, and with such a huge beak, like a macaw, they can be peeled indefinitely.
It is also advisable to make a variety in the diet. It is necessary to offer vegetables and fruits to the birds in raw form, various nuts, both small and large, which they easilygnawing. Apricot seeds serve as a special delicacy for the macaw, they can replace nuts in the diet of birds. According to the vitamin and mineral complex, they are not inferior to peanuts.
From fodder of animal origin occasionally it is necessary to give a low-fat cottage cheese, a hard-boiled chicken egg or a slice of boiled low-fat meat (better heart, liver). But it is not necessary to abuse these foods, since they can cause a metabolic disturbance in the body of the bird.
