A captive diet for Common Mynah is:
Fruit: 14 grams halves of fig, dates, grapes or plums, slices of apple, orange, pears, bananas; or 1/3 can fruit cocktail or diced fruit, also blackberries, eugenia, elderberries, hawthorn berries may also be used, as may raisins which have been soaked overnight in water.
Minced meat: 5 grams
Choice of seeds: 5 grams millet, canary, milo maize or wheat
Insects: 5 grams grasshoppers, crickets, mealworms or beetle pupae
Boiled rice: 5 grams
Grated carrots: 5 grams sprinkled on rice
Hard-boiled egg: 5 grams sliced
Mynah pellets: 5 grams mixed with meat or can use trout chow
Minerals: 5 gram Vionate multivitamin powder sprinkled on meat or 2 drops wheat germ oil may be placed on the meat.
If you have a description or pictures of a Common Mynah please email it to
birdsofprey1@aol.com to be included on this page about the Common Mynah.
