How to Keep a Red Tit? Feeding Methods and Precautions

The red tit, also known as the marsh tit, is mainly gray in color, with the forehead, crown to the back of the neck being black, and the cheeks and sides of the neck being white. It is small and cute, and many people are willing to keep it. How to keep a red tit in the best way?

How to keep a red tit

1. Prepare a birdcage for keeping the bird, and for a newly bought red tit, first cover it with a cage cover and hang it in a high place. Except for adding food and changing water, try not to remove the cover. After 2 weeks, you can begin to remove the cover. At first, you can open only a little, then put it down after half an hour, gradually opening it wider and wider, and the time should also be lengthened.

2. Usually, cornmeal, egg yolk, mung bean powder, and peanut powder can be mixed in a certain proportion, steamed, and fed. The specific preparation process is: mix the cornmeal and mung bean powder, wrap them with a steamer cloth, steam dry over the pot for 20 minutes, then take them out, let them cool, and rub them evenly with cooked egg yolk. Remove the skin from the peanuts, grind them into fine powder, and mix them evenly with the mixed powder. In different seasons, the proportions of the various ingredients should be adjusted appropriately. In spring and summer, appropriately reduce the peanut powder and slightly increase the proportion of egg yolk; in autumn and winter, appropriately increase the peanut powder and slightly reduce the proportion of egg yolk.

3. Walnuts, perilla seeds, insects, fruit, and so on can also be fed appropriately.

4. Regularly clean the hygiene inside the birdcage, replace the leftover feed, and change the water frequently.

5. Walk the bird once a day, generally at 6-7 in the morning or 2-3 in the afternoon. In summer, when temperatures are high, it is not suitable to walk the bird in the afternoon. For those who do not walk the bird, the cage cover can be opened at a fixed time every day.

6. In spring, egg yolk can be increased and insects appropriately supplemented, so as to provide the nutrients needed for its gonadal development. During the molting period in summer, more animal protein should be supplemented, and cut-open cicadas can be fed to the red tit. In autumn, the fat content in the feed should be increased.

Keeping a red tit is not difficult; as long as you are patient, you can keep it well.