Feeding:

There are two kinds of feed for raising starling chicks: one is granular feed, generally eggs, rice, eggs and rice; The other is soft material, which is made by mixing minced meat, cooked chicken (or chicken material), fruit or jam fruit. Feed it once (in summer) or twice a day. If possible, put a few insect larvae or pupae in the soft material.

Young birds can feed on powder and meat foam by adding water or using bananas to make mud. Pill feeding, 5-8 times a day. When the birds can eat by themselves, change to soft food, and add eggs and millet when the feathers grow up.

Management and training:

Flower myna eats a lot and has a lot of soft feces. A large amount of manure accumulates at the bottom of the cage and ferments after a few days. The bottom of the cage must be cleaned 2-3 times a week. Wash the pitcher and change the fresh water every day. It likes taking a bath, and it needs to be supplied with bath water every day in summer. In other seasons, depending on the temperature, it should be raised in the north, and moved indoors for wintering in winter, and the room temperature should be above 10℃.

It is best to teach birds to "talk" from small to large. Every morning and evening, when they are on an empty stomach, the surrounding environment should be quiet and there should be no noise. If you teach, you should learn one sentence before teaching the second sentence. Give the birds their favorite food every time they make it clear. Like bananas, insects and so on. It needs to be repeated many times. Generally, it takes 3-7 days to learn a sentence, and those who can learn 10 are excellent.

It is easiest to learn to talk with an old bird, and it is faster to let the bird face the mirror when teaching. As for the statement that "Hua myna must perform some operation on her tongue to learn to" speak ",there is no scientific basis. Because most birds' vocal organs are the branches of the "sound tube" and bronchi located at the lower end of the trachea, they sound through the contraction of the attached muscles, while human vocal cords are at the upper end of the trachea.