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Hemp Seed

by G.A. Abbate Ph.D.^©

Mrs. Stone,we Need rain here in Marco Island.

Mrs. Stone, fellow fanciers, members, of the group. For your information, in my lifetime, I traveled in many country of the world. The thousands fellow fanciers that I visited, most everyone of them feed their birds that included Canaries, European Goldfinches and other Carduelian finches, a seed mixture that also contained, not sterilized HMP seed and also not sterilized Nyger seed (thistly seed). In my opinion, their birds in many of these fellow fanciers bird room looks, much worse than some fellow fancier's birds here in North America.

The fellow fanciers that live in North America and as well in the rest of the World, all those who use common sense in providing their birds, regardless of the species, with a comfortable environment, a well balanced seed diet, with the additions of all the necessary supplements, their birds simply looks beautiful, with bright and shining plumages, and in vigorous health conditions. All the fanciers that meet these criteria usually experienced excellent breeding results, with or without supplementing the seed mixture with Hemp and Nyger seed.

Some CLEVER seed merchants, add hemp and Nyger seed, to their seed concoctions, Canaries and others seed eaters, loves in digging in the seed cups, selecting, only the hemp and Nyger seed, discarding the rest of the mixture, causing the bird to suffer of malnutrition, especially when these 2 seed are sterilized and rancid. Results, more sales for the seed merchants. If these high oil content seed, are not sterilized, all the birds, that are feed in large quantity, eventually get very sick, and getting the so called "Blue belly" Not sterilized Oil Seed are very good supplements to the diets of most seed eating birds, but most be fed with moderation,

Dry basic seed mixtures such as canary grass seed and rape seed, is only the bred for canaries. Like mankind, cannot leave on bred and water alone, seed eating birds cannot live well on a basic dry seed alone. The basic diet, most be well supplanted with the right proportions of all the not sterilized oil seed, with variety of dark greens, fruit, egg food and properly soak seed.

I travel in areas of Canada where acres and acres of lushes green fields of Hemp plants growing. Are you Canadians fanciers, have access to not sterilized hemp and also Nyger seed? I visit in past many fellow fancier in Canada, the one that use coming sense are successful fancier, like in the USA, those fancier, that do not poison their birds with delicious home made connections, are very successful breeders and good exhibitors too!

I seeing Hemp plants in many country of the world, I have seeing the hemp plants, in Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil Morocco and others country. I never seeing, anyone high on Maruana, in the above mentioned countries.

I know as facts that many seed mixture, containing Hemp and Nyger are illegally imported in the USA, It would not be long, before we know, Hemp and Nyger will be growing, around all garbage's dump in USA?

Most canaries cannot crock hemp seed. The discarded seed goes in the garbage's, and the rest is to be seeing.

I personally don't believe that the hemp seed that is fed to our birds is maruana. I am not a knowledgeable person on the subject. Therefore experts, express your knowledge.

We lost the electricity in my house 2 times, as result I lost hours of typing; I better post this before I loose it again. Crazy things, occasionally, are happing here in SW Florida. Every one of you, seeing on the news, what a terrible TORNADO hit Central Florida? Our heart goes to all the people that lost their live and to all that lost their house and their possessions.

These are my 2 cents, of thoughts. Best regards to all.

G. A. Abbate, partially, cloudy, Marco Island, Florida.