UV Lighting

nofearengineer

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Gandalf - CAG (1997-2010) R.I.P. my baby boy.
Bitty - CAG (2 yrs old? and working on spoiling her rotten)
I found a good read on the web.

http://www.palsvetlab.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/63uvb.pdf

To summarize...he took two groups of African Greys, fed one a poor diet, and fed the other a Calcium and Vitamin D rich diet. The poor diet group had poor plumage, but when given UV light, they became visually indiscernable from the good diet group. Probably because it stimulated them to preen more.

UV light did seem to boost the blood concentrations of beneficial minerals, even in those birds already having a good diet.

Food for thought.
 

Garnet

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May 27, 2011
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Silver Springs, Florida
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5 Green Cheek Conures; 1 Blackcapped Conure; 2 Sun Conures; 3 Cockatiel; 1 Quaker; 1 Whitecapped Pionus; 2 Peach Fronted Conures; 1 parakeet
Great information, glad to know I didn't waste my money on UV lighting for my parrots.
 

xreinx

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Alaska
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-no parrots yet-
I do have two cats -Riply & Nano bites-
four snakes- china, dip & stick, and Grand Chahee-
what happens if you put the light over parrots that have a good diet? this has me wondering *good plumage + light= Brillant plumage?*. Thanks for the good read.
 

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