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Kookaburra Diet Sheet
Day Old Chicken. Our birds are fed a basic diet of day old chickens dead of course. (You may need to source a commercial hatchery that can provide culls and who are sensitive to your needs).
And/or
Mice Available commercially (but expensive) or breed your own (but then you have to kill them not a pleasant job even though they are mice). If you have mice around the place, put out a few traps rather than poison the trapped mice make good Kooka tucker they love em.
Whole food (i.e. complete with bones, fur, feathers etc) is important for their wellbeing but if you do not have access to either of the above, a reasonable substitute would be strips of beef, or other red meat, sprinkled with Wombaroo Insectivore Mix.
A Wombaroo Insectivore Mix supplier can be found at www.healthy-bird.com
In addition offer:- Mealworms, Crickets etc or any other insects or spiders you can trap.
Fish. We are currently experimenting with fish (Carp) cut into small pieces. (Results click here)
2. Quantity.
Day Old Chickens - our Kookas have 1 ½ or 2 chicks per bird per day. They are best offered cut in half. We have found that Kookas can struggle a bit with whole day old chickens.
Mice - you will need at least 2 adult mice per bird per day.
Should the birds produce offspring you will need to offer food that is small enough for the chicks to swallow. Cut up the day old chicken (or mice) into very tiny pieces and offer mealworms or other insect life.
Rabbit or other road kill could be tried but it will need to be cut up into mouse sized pieces (or smaller).
These birds do not drink but they do enjoy bathing, so fresh water should always be available. A large shallow container is best (e.g. an upturned dustbin lid is ideal)
3. Tips.
Cut up the chicks/mice or whatever, frozen or partially frozen its much less messy.
A good way to attract insect life into your aviary is to install a low wattage light within the confines of the aviary, which can be switched on a night (a sunset switch or timer will do this job). Also an insect "zapper" is good for this job but don't forget to disable the "zapper" part - all you need is the light.
This should be done by a qualified electrician. |
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