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Corn and Wombok?

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Corn and Wombok?

Postby dRAG_jUNKIE on 03 Mar 2010, 20:45

I was wondering if it's safe to feed wombok and corn to finches?
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Re: Corn and Wombok?

Postby E Orix on 04 Mar 2010, 08:48

I can not think of any reason why you can't feed Wombok, as for Corn on the cob.
Feeding corn on the cob is a great food especially pairs feeding young.
I buy the cheap unmarked brands of frozen cobetts and simply push them onto a nail.
At times within a couple of hours the cob has been stripped bare,the birds then fossick under looking for dropped pieces.
As for dried cracked corn I would even feed that to the chooks,too hard and too many sharp edges when cracked.
Possibly soaked would be OK
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Re: Corn and Wombok?

Postby jusdeb on 04 Mar 2010, 09:30

Mine love wombok and when its cheap thats the main green veg for them , they love corn also but I had a bad experience with a quarrion that pigged out and ended up with a blocked gut , on top of that she was unable to pass an egg due to the blockage and thus became eggbound .....nearly lost her thank god for a vet nurse who was "interested " in avian health .
Now they get the leftovers from the steamer and only a teaspoom full if that.
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Re: Corn and Wombok?

Postby dRAG_jUNKIE on 04 Mar 2010, 10:03

Excellent, thanks for your help deb and e orix.
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Re: Corn and Wombok?

Postby bluebutterfly213 on 04 Mar 2010, 10:07

Wombok? not sure what that is.
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Re: Corn and Wombok?

Postby dRAG_jUNKIE on 04 Mar 2010, 10:14

Um, it's a Chinese cabbage, well that's what the label says lol
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Re: Corn and Wombok?

Postby bluebutterfly213 on 04 Mar 2010, 10:59

ah ha.....probably the name of the variety, heard of chinese cabbage
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