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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]22ND Jan 1942 Ripley & Heanor News FEEDING BIRDS IN WARTIME The authorities have decided in order to save the shipping space, to reduce all seeds for canaries and budgerigars. There is no reason, the R.S.P.C.A. announces, why owners of such birds and their friends should not grow many of the seeds in this country. Grow your own seeds It is certainly possible to grow several kinds in this country, but the prospect of a satisfactory crop of seeds would depend largely on the weather in any particular season. Canary seed, teasle, hemp, maw, linseed, sunflower can be grown in the open, but need care. There are at least five kinds of millet in the trade great, common, Italian, sanwa, spiked –but the prospect of success in more doubtful than with the other seeds mentioned, as the millets are normally grown in a considerably warmer climate. You can grow your own linseed, but care must be taken not to give it to canaries, though it is quite suitable for budgerigars. Alternative diet for Budgerigars Budgerigars can be kept on alternatively a mixture of oats, linseed and millet and on stale bread. Oats, groats and rye can be used in lieu of the smaller seed usually given to budgerigars and to a certain extent wheat can be given. Threshing screenings or caving are most useful as they contain many weed seeds, most of which are suitable for canaries and budgerigars. For parrots, oats, rye, barley, wheat, as well as sunflower seeds, may be used. Seeds from plantain, dandelions, groundsel and chickweed are all suitable for canaries and budgerigars, and chopped roots such as carrots, turnips, and Swedes will provide an alternative diet. The guidance above given is authoritative and expert. Jenny[/quote]
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Jennypeg
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Rationing and Kitbags
replied on: 11/21/2006 10:34:05 AM

22ND Jan 1942
Ripley & Heanor News
FEEDING BIRDS IN WARTIME
The authorities have decided in order to save the shipping space, to reduce all seeds for canaries and budgerigars.
There is no reason, the R.S.P.C.A. announces, why owners of such birds and their friends should not grow many of the seeds in this country.
Grow your own seeds
It is certainly possible to grow several kinds in this country, but the prospect of a satisfactory crop of seeds would depend largely on the weather in any particular season.
Canary seed, teasle, hemp, maw, linseed, sunflower can be grown in the open, but need care. There are at least five kinds of millet in the trade great, common, Italian, sanwa, spiked –but the prospect of success in more doubtful than with the other seeds mentioned, as the millets are normally grown in a considerably warmer climate.
You can grow your own linseed, but care must be taken not to give it to canaries, though it is quite suitable for budgerigars.
Alternative diet for Budgerigars
Budgerigars can be kept on alternatively a mixture of oats, linseed and millet and on stale bread. Oats, groats and rye can be used in lieu of the smaller seed usually given to budgerigars and to a certain extent wheat can be given. Threshing screenings or caving are most useful as they contain many weed seeds, most of which are suitable for canaries and budgerigars.
For parrots, oats, rye, barley, wheat, as well as sunflower seeds, may be used.
Seeds from plantain, dandelions, groundsel and chickweed are all suitable for canaries and budgerigars, and chopped roots such as carrots, turnips, and Swedes will provide an alternative diet.
The guidance above given is authoritative and expert.
Jenny

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