Lovebirds and Millet Grass, ..but more

Lovebirds love millet grass.
Yes, millet grass is a good food addition for Lovebirds or other small parrot. Millet grass is usually fed in the form of sprouted millet or as part of a seed mixture served to lovebirds. We've done that several times, and all the lovebirds love it. Especially Fischer's lovebirds and Personata lovebirds. But this time we made something a little different.
Some time ago, we thought about a way to reduce the insects on the floor of the lovebird cage. We have tried several methods, and they work, but it is quite troublesome and involves a lot of things that seem quite dangerous to be near the lovebirds.
Some of my conclusions about the insects on the cage base:
- There are a lot of them.
- They eat the lovebirds' seeds scattered on the bottom.
- They can survive even when flooded with water.
The condition of the lovebirds cage base at that time:
- Using sand as a base, with the initial aim that when we clean the lovebirds' droppings, just turn them over. Easy and fast. Lovebirds also need to consume sand to improve their digestion. Although in the end after some time...
- The remaining shells of lovebirds' seeds become thickly piled up and the sand is covered by them. So it might provide more space for insects to grow on the bottom of the cage.
In short, we want to create a simple system, about reducing insects while ensuring that the seeds scattered below are not wasted (Well, because the price is getting more expensive -_-)
We put cocopeat as bedding for the cage! Yes, with just a small mixture of fermented and finely ground goat manure. What I imagine is that if the seeds fall on it, the seeds will sprout and will be a good addition to the feed for lovebirds. It also reduces insects, because the mixed base is denser than before. Actually, this is just speculation, but apparently after a few days it was proven that the number of insects had decreased quite a lot. There were a few ants there for about three days, but after that there weren't many. In short, as of the posting of this video, this plan has proven to be quite successful.
What you see in this video is mostly millet grass that grows due to the many seeds that fall, but on one side near the wall, we deliberately grew millet grass there. It took about four days from the time the millet was sown until it grew like this (which is faster than processing in trays, usually it takes a minimum of seven days). And we shot this video for about four days. So it takes at least four days for these lovebirds to consume that much millet grass.
Anyway, that's the short story... Thank you and sorry for bad english :D

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