13/09/2025
🖤🤍 FEEDING MAGPIES 🤍🖤
Feeding wild birds the wrong food isn't kindness - it's cruelty without even realising it.
Right now, many birds - especially magpies - are raising chicks. When fed the wrong food, like raw mince or bread, these chicks can grow up deformed, weak, or even die.
🚫Mince
Can stick to their beaks, cause severe calcium deficiencies, and lead to 'soft bones mince, syndrome," leaving them unable to fly or fend for themselves.
▶️ Safe Foods for Magpies (as a supplement only)
🔸Dog or cat kibble (low-salt, no added
flavour soaked in water to soften
🔸Boiled egg (chopped) - including the shell for extra calcium
🔸Insects and larvae (crickets, mealworms - frozen or live).
🔸Specialised insectivore or omnivore bird food (sold for native birds).
▶️ Foods to Avoid (harmful or deadly over time)
🔺Bread or processed human food - offers no nutrition.
🔺Milk or dairy - magpies cannot digest lactose.
🔺Fatty, salty or seasoned meats - like sausages or bacon.
🔺Raw mince - lacks calcium and can cause "soft bone" deformities in chicks
🔺Sugary foods - disrupt their natural diet
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Feed only occasionally, not daily.
Provide water more often than food.
Never replace their natural foraging diet.
Please educate yourself and everyone you know. We can do better
