A captive diet for European Starling 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.

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