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Feeding Equipment

What you need:

  • a small kitchen sieve for thawing the house crickets/crickets
  • a small porcelain plate for arranging the food
  • a small bowl for drinking water
  • another small bowl, preferably of different material, for the hand disinfectant
  • a blunt, rounded-front tweezers
  • a glass with vinegar water for disinfecting the feeding tweezers after feeding
  • a clean cloth handkerchief for covering the plumage

After feeding, carefully clean and dry tweezers and dishes.
Sterilize the tweezers once daily in boiling water

Feeding station: 1) Handkerchief for covering the bird, 2) short, rounded-front tweezers for feeding, 3) bowl with "Sterillium" for disinfecting fingers, 4) small jug with vinegar water for disinfecting tweezers, 5) water glass for rinsing tweezers before mucous membrane contact, 6) bowl with drinking water (here fennel tea), 7) plate with feeder insects