Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
LOL! Feel threatened by you!!!The solution is for you to quit posting information that isn't correct just to be posting and arguing with others. Another example is telling the kid to throw out birds that are pecking on the others. To take care of that you either clip the top beak (debeaking) or put blinders on them by pinning it through their nostrils! Oldtimr has forgotten more about this subject that you have obviously ever known about it! When you argue with a person with his knowledge on this subject it does not speak well of you. You didn't even know that the birds need 28% to 30% or more protein in their feed and that is why the OP was told what to feed them. That alone should have been enough for you to quit while you're behind and move on to something else, but now you come back and even tell a big lie about what you posted! Sad, very very sad!
I also said after the first molt. Release after the first molt is acceptable, though it has a low survival rate. I knew the birds need high preteen, finding feed with over twenty percent can be problematic, maybe Turkey mash? Scratch is likely to be a disappointment.
The feed is also age dependent. Under a month got a special food, a 10 kilo (twenty pound sack) lasted a month or more.
Chasing those birds around the enclosure trying to cut their beaks is likely to cause more harm than good. They tend to injure themselves a lot when they panic. Sometimes it is the lesser of two evils. Oppinion.