Holiday bird treats

BirdCast

English - December 17, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.78 MB
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As the end of 2020 approaches, human social lives ramp up, as people make preparations for celebrating Christmas and the New Year. In Birdman Dad's neck of the woods this time of the year is summer, and many Australians have extended holidays over the summer break. Life can be very busy this time of year, and for those who keep birds in their backyards, you may be finding it challenging to care for your birds whilst trying to fit in all your social and holiday plans.
As well as the social demands on your time, as a birdkeeper you may want to provide your birds with something special within the celebrations. A great little book the BirdCast team have found is "The Finch Keeper's Recipe Book" by Peter Roy James. Mr James managed to prise these recipes from a variety of finch breeders at a finch convention in Brisbane back in 2008. The book provides 52 recipes that you can cook/create for your finches (and we also feed to our parrots). The book also contains some tips and hints on getting your finches to eat what you have cooked for them as their "Christmas treat".
If you Google the title a number of places that sell this book will pop up. The BirdCast team purchased their copy at their local bird store, but there are several online stores that advertise they have this book in store. Two places in Australia is here: https://www.tassiebirdandpoultrysupplies.com/products/the-finch-keepers-recipe-book
https://www.petandgarden.com.au/bird-books-dvds-magazines/1037-the-finch-keepers-recipe-book.html
and it is also being advertised on Amazon.
Birdman Dad and the BirdCast team would sincerely like to Thank our listeners!
Thankyou for the regular downloads of our podcast and for the comments we have received to date offering words of support, encouragement and listener suggestions to future podcast topics.
The team wishes everyone a safe and merry festive season.
Over the summer the team will be busy compiling a few You Tube videos (as requested) and these will be placed on the Birdman Dad channel.
The team will be taking a few weeks break from Birdcast but keep a watch out in the New Year for our next podcast!
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