Mineral blocks

[Cpara]

do you give your birds mineral and calcium supplements?If so,what type do you give them?I've heard about cuttlebones,clay blocks,and other mineral&calcium supplements about 4 months ago,and I haven't seen lots of people give it to their birds.

[spiritbird]

Now days they are making mineral blocks in combination with cuttle bones. I have two in my bird's cage. They will sometimes use them but not often. Better to have one than not to. If the birds need them they will use them. [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]

[Casper's 2nd best friend]

Casper totally ignored the mineral block we put in his cage (another item in the cupboard with the flight harness) but he loves his cuttlebones - they are great fun to destroy and he might even swallow a tiny bit sometimes (it shows in his poop). Friends bring them back from the beach and we boil them to kill any nasties.
I attach them to the bars of the cage by drilling a hole through the middle and bolting them onto a spring clip that I liberated from a self-retracting tape measure.
I have a lot of those tape measures for my work (about five or six I think) but I can never find one when I need to measure something. I suspect they come and go with the phases of the moon - like the tides. :th_smile:

[Albert]

I have never had any bird pay the slightest attention to mineral blocks or cuttle bones.

[Lady]

Lady has a mineral block in her cage and I do see her use it to wipe her beak off mostly after eating before she settles down for the night.

[Robyn]

Riley will occasionally play with his mineral block but not often. It's been in there since he came home you can hardly notice any "damage" to it

[Mare]

The cockatiels, Chip and Jellybean, are the only ones I ever actually noticed using the cuttlebone. Once in a while, I'll microplane some into Sassy and Amigo's morning oatmeal..they never knew what hit them!! :)