Food Values

It would be very wrong to allow any bird to exist on only one kind of seed as most seeds are deficient in some respect. Their food values are given below. It should be remembered that protein is a very important item of the diet and that different seeds have vary­ing amino acid constituents. Those of peanuts are superior and those of mil­lets are especially poor.

Seed Food Values (in percentages)

sunflower pine nuts peanuts	20 12 19	24 31 26	47 47 47 Fats and oils	Mineral	Water
canary seed	52	14	5	2	14
millet	61	15	5	2	13
hemp	16	16	32	4	12
niger	15	17	33	7	8
maw	12	17	40	6	15
linseed	18		40