What do birds often eat? How to make bird's nest food?

Bird's nest soup or bird's nest is inherently familiar to many people. But before now, we often only know the bird's nest without many people interested in what the bird eats. So, what is bird food? And how to feed bird nest like? Invite you to track the following article offline.

1. What do birds eat?

What do adult birds eat?

Adult birds nest eat small insects (about 0.01–0.72g), flying in the air like wasps, wing ants, small bees, mosquito flies, ephemera, spiders or small bugs.

The ratio of insects in the bird's food as follows:

The wing of the membrane (ant) accounted for 61.1%

The uniform set (termite) accounts for about 14.7%

Set of two wings (flies) makes up about 7.8%

The remaining species only account for a low rate

Adult birds nest often eat insects

The favorite food for bird's nest is ants (about 50-70%), followed by termites, flies or planthoppers, ladybugs, small bugs, damselfly, damselflies, moths, silk wings and locusts. Birds often catch food while flying, with an altitude of about 30m and according to the distribution of insects in the air. There are characteristic plants that are loved by birds, there are also places where they love to park. It is a source of abundant food for this precious bird. Plants often attract insects such as apple trees, fig trees, etc.

Food for chicks

Foods for chicks are often taken by their parents and fed to their children. Bird nest prey and feed the same as when nursing babies. The parents mix enzymes and other antibodies in their saliva into the bait to feed the chicks. The composition of bird's nest is quite diverse. In general, young birds often eat foods with thin chitin shell, the percentage of brown planthoppers, green leafhoppers account for 50% of the composition of food, mosquitoes occupy about 20% and the ants account for about 7%. Each young bird nest will see in the prey there are about 250 to 350 small insects.

In case of artificial breeding, birds eat what birds nest? Young birds are often fed eggs, young bee larvae. The current bird nesters also feed a few more small worms or crickets. The first time, lasting about 5 to 6 weeks, the birds nest are both parents fed by prey. During this time, the bait that birds nest eat about 0.6-1g. Afterwards, the lumps have a larger size of 1.5 - 1.7g. The nearest bait time is about 30 minutes apart. When feeding baby birds, often feed the chicks 3 to 4 times a day. Specifically, 3 times during the day, 1 time around 8 pm. Young bird's nest receives food from normal humans and also grows normally until it flies.

Bird nest eating insects on should not contribute very important in controlling the number of insects harmful to crops. Thus, what birds eat not only brings high economic efficiency, health benefits, but also contributes to increase crop productivity and protect the environment in the most natural way.

However, the knowledge of raising oats shows that young birds are fertilized bait lumps about 0.8 g once a day, about 2-4 times a day. If there are 1000 birds, it needs 2.4kg of insects. When the birds are bigger, the amount of food needed is also greater, the bait is nearly twice as big as before, meaning that every day the bird needs at least 5 to 7g of bait. Thus, 1,000 children need from 5kg to 7kg of insects. With such a small insect, a young bird nest will be fed 250 to 350 insects at one time by its parents. Thus, the number of insects used for a swallow nest is about 5,000 very large. Such an analysis helps us to better understand the orientation for long-term development of bird nest farming and the issue of bird food should also be raised more clearly.

Bird nest live near the forest, fruit tree growing area is where there will be many wing ants (belonging to the membrane wing), birds nest in urban areas will have many flies (of the two wings), bird nest eat many wing ants , quality will be better. Birds nest to eat a lot of quality flies will not be equal to eating ants.

2. How to feed bird nest

With the above information, you already know what birds eat. But for those raising oats indoors, the source of food for birds nest is a matter of great concern. With a plentiful food source will not only stimulate the growth and reproduction of birds nest, increase the quality as well as the number of nests but also create stability for the birds nest and time to increase the herd. Since then, deciding the ability to recover capital quickly, early return on investment in bird nest.

There are many methods of creating home-made food sources for bird's nest such as Drosophila fruit fly, Sitophilus Ozyzae flour mite using MIXCO-2. Thus, helping oats farmers will be proactive in the food source for birds and especially the supplement of food for the seasons or areas with unfavorable climates, insect resources decline.

Causes fruit flies

First step: You use 2kg of MIXCO-2 flour to mix together 2 kg of rice flour or flour or flour sold in the market and 5 liters of clean water into the pan and stir well. Then, put on the stove to boil and reduce the heat and stir to create a paste but not solid. After turning off the heat, add white NP powder mixed with water, continue stirring and allow to cool. You do this many times and you divide many plastic wheels.

Step two: You put a few pieces of orange or squeezed orange peel, pineapple peel, boiled corn pulp or ripe bananas on the surface of this mixture. Keep divided plastic trays in a cool place near the kitchen or where there are spoiled fruits, and lots of flies and mosquitoes are hanging.

The flies will slowly fly over and lay their eggs on the surface. Later, the eggs hatched into maggots and the maggots turned into pupae and then transformed into flies. When the fruit fly maggots have appeared, put the plastic tray in the oats barn. At temperatures above 22 degrees C, fruit flies will reproduce continuously until the fruit fly eats all of this nutrient mixture for 50-60 days. Nymphs turn into flies and then fly to feed the birds.

Note:

The downside of this nutrient mixture is that it will easily harden, so every 10-15 days, add 1 to 2 tablespoons of the batch to the mixture to soften the mixture, the new fly larvae survive. Batch is usually sold at the market. If you don't have a batch, add 1-2 ripe bananas.

The fruit fly maggot can live well in a mixture that is neither too dry nor wet. The maggot lives only in a soft, drained mixture. You should take 10-15 days to bring the mixture close to where natural fruit flies live, put the batch in and raise for 5-7 days, then return the old pen.

Above are the sharing of bird's food and how to make bird's nest food. So, the questions about what your bird's nest will be answered. Hope you had lots of useful information.

Source: Collector