Groats and oats are fed alternate weekends. The oats, I soak for twenty-four hours and then drain. To the groats I add a teaspoon of cod-liver oil. This is a chance to introduce cod-liver oil to the diet without overdoing it. Be careful not to overdo vitamins.
Birds can suffer just as much from excess vitamins as an insufficiency.
Grit, cuttlefish and iodine blocks are available all year round. To Take Softfood I have struggled over the years to get my birds to take softfood. At various times I have tried EMP, bread and milk, and Trill's breeding diet. Some birds have picked at the dishes, others ignored them completely. Last year Hunibrite offered a tub of their product to all National class winners.