{"id":3037,"date":"2016-02-02T23:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T23:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pheasant1.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:49:44","slug":"game-birds-stay-healthy-with-daily-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pheasant.com\/about-us\/blog\/game-birds-stay-healthy-with-daily-monitoring","title":{"rendered":"Game Birds Stay Healthy With Daily Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monitoring of feed consumption is an essential component of making sure our birds stay healthy. One of the first signs of a sick bird is that they stop eating and drinking. This is why we are vigilant about checking our feed and water systems and our birds morning, noon, and night.\u00a0 If our birds eat less feed one week compared to a previous week we intensify our monitoring and our inspection of the birds.<\/p>\n

We usually start chicks out on flats of feed and hand fill them so we can base what they normally eat by how many buckets of feed we use. For example, a flock of 7000-8000 ringnecks should eat about 2-3 buckets of feed overnight. If that doesn\u2019t happen, birds are examined more closely. So here is the bottom line-with chicks we monitor the feed flats daily and weekly. Mature birds\u2019 feed consumption is monitored by how much food we order. Food is available to our birds at all times. We want them to eat as much as they want so they grow big and healthy! Birds that run out of feed get stressed.<\/p>\n

At different ages, birds receive differing amounts of protein. Chicks start with high protein (around 25%) and as they grow the protein level in the feed can go down to around 15%.\u00a0 We also feed different sizes of feed for different ages. Chicks are given a small crumbled feed (Hungarian chick feed is ground even smaller.) As birds grow they get switched to regular crumb size feed and then to a mini pellet.<\/p>\n

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