Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1890 — Feeding Canary Birds. [ARTICLE]

Feeding Canary Birds.

A good many people don’t know how to take care of cauary birds, and I, therefore, give them the following advice which I got from a bird-fancier: “Never give your bird sugar, or figs, or raisins, or anything sweet, except a small piece of sweet apple (peeled) twice a week. Put the applo in the cage in the morning and take it out at night. It should have all the rape and canary seed it wants and gravel should be kept at the bottom of the cage. Avoid feeding the bird celery. Twice- a week feed it on one-third of a boiled egg. using both the wiiite and the yellow of the egg. Grate up the egg; that is better than putting it in whole. Give it the egg the day before It gets the apple and as large a piece of the former as of the latter. Let it have a batli everv oilier day, using water with the chill taken off.” — Epoch.