birds searching

birdy2011 wrote:

if you notice first thing in a morning if your birds go on the garden they look for soil patches and pick at them im not sure what it is they want or what they pick up but i recon its some kind of mineral that comes to the top during the night or what worms have pushed up ours have many grits and minerals but still they seek something more god knows what or why
but lets face it they know best

Nice little topic & did the last bit of wisdom G above come, with beer ??? or without .

birdy2011 wrote:

we do spinkle a tea spoon of salt in loft every few days but they dont seem to touch it then again must be a thousnad bits in one spoon

You taste the grit you give your birds, that has salt on it same as pick stones and that's sometimes the reason why the birds gorge on it

Why can give the birds watery droppings

The only good thing with salt is to use it in the loft to see if the loft is damp

I would imagine salt would go damp overnight in most lofts to be honest......

when we had our caravans come the winter when we shut them down
we put about 10 big bowls of salt in and around the rooms stack the cusions etc in a piromid shate so air went round and role nespaper to put in the window ledges when ya come back to open up again all would be nice and dry the salt bowls would be rock hard where they absorbed all the damp etc
but it did the job no mould or wet

always wondered why a caravan I had a few years ago went all mouldy graham.........

put a bowl in ya loft then see next day how it takes all the moisture out then check few days later as don says its a good test

You can put some grated salad and chopped lettuce down and birds just mess about with it, but sprinkle a bit salt on and they eat it all, not every day though once or twice a week is enough imo

birdy2011 wrote:

when we had our caravans come the winter when we shut them down
we put about 10 big bowls of salt in and around the rooms stack the cusions etc in a piromid shate so air went round and role nespaper to put in the window ledges when ya come back to open up again all would be nice and dry the salt bowls would be rock hard where they absorbed all the damp etc
but it did the job no mould or wet

Will have to tell the in laws to do the same thing

Don Webb wrote:

birdy2011 wrote:

we do spinkle a tea spoon of salt in loft every few days but they dont seem to touch it then again must be a thousnad bits in one spoon

You taste the grit you give your birds, that has salt on it same as pick stones and that's sometimes the reason why the birds gorge on it

Why can give the birds watery droppings

Don I'm one of those blokes that has salt 24/7 in the loft etc & I for one have never found that they tend to gouge on it. True tho about it  being a good indicator of dampness or high humidity as such in the loft.