Topic: Canary Food to grow

[Bambi.1]

Anyone know what l could grow for my Canaries from seed  ??? l have an indoor avairy and they have the usual seed,carrot and iceberge lettuce..........their favourite LOL!
I would just like to growsomething different for them.

Any idea's please.

[redimp]

Millet?  ;D

Sorry this was not a facetious reply - you can grow it and they like the heads.

[jaggythistle]

  BROCCOLI'S the first 1 that springs to mind if you have chickweed on your
  plot they love that too I once even planted canary seed and the resulting
  heads were devoured with a vengence........ I am assumming you know
  you can buy soak seed too which you can sprout and feed that as well and
  if you have apples they love em...........need to de core of course sprouts
  are liked too.... thats more than enough from me.............what kind are they.....??

  Norwich,Borders,Fifes,Glosters or lizards.........??

[Bambi.1]

Redclanger l have tried millet..............they don't like it  :(

Jaggythistle
I only have Borders now,l used to have a Roller which sang beautifully, unfortunately not with me anymore,but he must have been 15 or 16 yrs at least before he died
.
Back to the food,l found tiny plants growing on the ground underneath the garden bird house which l found out later was my Canary seed which had sprouted,l also found out my hubby was feeding the wild birds with it   :o >:( :D l gave some of the tiny plants to my birds and they didn't like that either  >:( l will have to check out the chickweed,can't remember what it looks like,l'm sure l used to give them that years ago and then noticed a similar looking weed and got worried l might be giving them the wrong stuff and gave up.
I've never seen the soak seed in the pet shops or the pet bit of the garden centres  ???

[redimp]

Just remembered that as a kid our budgies and canaries all really liked fresh groundsel.

I can send you some if you want  ;D

[Bambi.1]

Thanks Redclanger  ;D

What's Groundsel  ??? never heard of it,is it another weed  ;D cos l have plenty of those in my garden  ::) ;D l might have it  :D

[redimp]

Looks like this:

[Bambi.1]

Keep forgetting where l put this post  ::) ::)should have put it in pets  :-[ never mind.

Thanks for the pic,l think l have some in my garden  ;D l'm always worried about weeds as l don't want to poison my birds .l will have a look and try some see if they like it  ;D

Does the yellow flower turn into the same looking thing like the dandelion,the things that float around seeding everywhere and takes over if your not careful LOL!

[redimp]

Yes

[Bambi.1]

Thanks Redclanger  ;D

As l have the pic already on the puter l thought l would show you my indoor aviary l made,which l'm proud of as l'm a girly LOL!!!! the birds in the background l painted,the real ones are on the perches LOL!

[redimp]

I can see it with a few sprigs of groundsel hanging in it  ;D