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Post by jellybean on Mar 26, 2015 13:58:47 GMT
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Post by Hezz on Mar 27, 2015 0:33:18 GMT
I am not sure why you would, tbh. If, and that is an "if" budgies need salt, or some component of the salt, the sodium or the chloride, I imagine it would be included in their mineral blocks. But ...... we (here in Australia) have a low growing ........ shrub is being a little too kind in the drier, inland parts, which we as kids would often take pieces off and lick, it is called saltbush, and the leaves are very salty. It has been written up as one of the foods of our wild budgies. Sooooo, who knows?? If I were to go down the track of providing some form of salt for the buds, I would be more inclined to snaffle a piece of saltbush rather than go to the Himalayas for it.
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Post by Gaile on Mar 27, 2015 8:57:31 GMT
I have a lump of Himalayan Rock Salt in my aviary and they love it!
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Post by jellybean on Mar 27, 2015 9:03:08 GMT
I think Corie when he used to be on the forum had one in his aviary. Is there something in there that the birds benefit from Gaile.
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Post by Hezz on Mar 27, 2015 9:16:39 GMT
I have a lump of Himalayan Rock Salt in my aviary and they love it! Why, Gaile?
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Post by samwiseg on Mar 27, 2015 9:18:11 GMT
I thought that they get their natural salts from their cuttle or block?
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Post by OP on Mar 27, 2015 9:24:35 GMT
I wonder if salt is what Whiskers is after when he goes hell for leather at my eyebrows.
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Post by jellybean on Mar 27, 2015 17:18:27 GMT
I emailed Paul Stannard (I think he is a friend of Barry Shutt) @ps1 budgerigars, and asked him about the benefits to be had from His Himalayan Rock Salt, this was his reply:-
You wont find a better natural source .I use it in every cage and my big flights .every day my birds use the rock . one piece will last years with no loss og benefit to the birds ,far better than any man made powder sold in a tub Himalayan salt contains an almost identical set of elements to those found inside the human body, 84 of the possible 92 trace minerals, in the same proportion as naturally exists in our blood.
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Post by OP on Mar 27, 2015 18:54:17 GMT
I emailed Paul Stannard (I think he is a friend of Barry Shutt) @ps1 budgerigars, and asked him about the benefits to be had from His Himalayan Rock Salt, this was his reply:- You wont find a better natural source .I use it in every cage and my big flights .every day my birds use the rock . one piece will last years with no loss og benefit to the birds ,far better than any man made powder sold in a tub Himalayan salt contains an almost identical set of elements to those found inside the human body, 84 of the possible 92 trace minerals, in the same proportion as naturally exists in our blood. That makes me think that Whiskers is getting his salt fix from my eyebrows. I really loves going for them.
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Post by Hezz on Mar 28, 2015 1:09:25 GMT
It still doesn't really answer the question of "why". If salt is something that budgies need, why hasn't this been brought up before? So I ask again, Gaile, why do you use it? What are the benefits to the birds?
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Post by Hezz on Mar 28, 2015 1:10:30 GMT
I think Corie when he used to be on the forum had one in his aviary. Is there something in there that the birds benefit from Gaile. This is what I want to know, as well.
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Post by Gaile on Mar 28, 2015 17:01:55 GMT
Budgies need salt, they don't eat alot but do need some salt in their diet! Many exhibition breeders add salt to their soft food for the budgies x
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Post by jellybean on Mar 28, 2015 17:10:45 GMT
Don't they get it from cuttlebone though Gaile
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Post by OP on Mar 28, 2015 17:40:14 GMT
From what I have read about this rock salt it as different trace elements in it. It's not like your everyday salt. If the Wikipedia article is true then the Himalayan rock salt comes from Pakistan and not fro the Himalayan mountains. A lot of wild animals have a favourite salt lick. I remember a program about elephants climbing to a precarious place just for their favourie salt lick. As for other sources in the budgies diet I don't know.
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Post by Gaile on Mar 28, 2015 18:44:12 GMT
I don't know about cuttlefish, but when I return a breeding pair to the flight they both go straight to the salt, even though there is salt in with the iodine blocks that I make x
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