FOR SALE:
Calcium Mineral Block @ P25/pc
We also accept bulk orders (minimum 5 dozens) with FREE delivery within Cebu and Mandaue City.
CMB Ingredients:
Washed and sterilized grit with redstone. Contains gastric grinding stones, silex-stones, oyster shells, sea shells, redstone and charcoal. Gastric grinding stones and silex-stones are the bird’steeth. Contains also anise. Assures an optimal digestion and produces solid droppings.
Aviary: GLR Aviary - Bacayan, Cebu City
Contact Person: Egay
Contact Number: 09286360133
Just to share the importance of Calcium for our Bird's health... taken from the internet...
Every bird keeper knows they must supply calcium to their birds because seed diets are deficient. There are no arguments that birds don’t require some form of supplementation of their diet. Where the differences of opinion occur is in what supplement to use- is it cuttlefish bone, shell grit, oyster shell, calcium carbonate or liquid calcium sources.
In our vet clinics we still see many birds presented with symptoms of calcium deficiency that are related to their diet. The most commonly seen condition is fledglings with deformed or fractured legs, wings or skulls. These young are the proof that the diet available to their parents is calcium deficient – why do we do this?
Egg bound hens are another sign that the calcium supply may be a problem.
There is a great variation in the requirement for calcium throughout the life of a bird. Beginning as a chick where they need about 1% of their diet, dropping to around 0.3% of the diet as a non breeding adult and then skyrocketing through the egg laying cycle of a hen. To accurately deliver the day by day requirement is impossible, so what do we do?
Luckily nature has an answer – and that is “some”.
The bird has evolved to take calcium on board when available, to store it in the bones for future use and to prevent uptake when the diet is in excess. But it all relies on there being “some” calcium in the diet.
Remember that it is the small birds that require the most calcium in relation to their body weight. Small hens (budgies, finches, canaries) have proportionally larger eggs than large birds (cockatoos), so require a greater calcium intake. A finch hen, for example, will completely exhaust all the calcium in her skeleton in laying only 5 eggs – therefore she must have a constant calcium intake during egg laying.
Don’t rely on one source of calcium – give the birds access to a number of sources and don’t get too concerned about actual dose rates – “some” is good!
Calcium Mineral Block:
CMB location in 17x30 double cage:
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Calcium Mineral Block
Originally Posted by javs
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