by Pajarita » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:52 am
A solar schedule is not getting sunshine on his cage (which is great for them, btw), it's no artificial lights on until the sun is on the sky in the morning (about 8:30 am this time of the year) or when the sun is setting (about 4:30 pm this time of the year) and darkness after for a good night sleep (sometimes, this requires covering the cage with a black-out material). The times you turn on or off the overhead lights vary with the seasons but all you have to do is look out the window or, if you can, install the lights on timers that will need to get adjusted every three weeks or so.
A low protein diet is no free-feeding high protein food (just putting a lot of seeds, pellets, nutriberries, nuts, etc in a bowl and leaving it there all day long). They need to eat cooked whole grains (wheat, barley, brown/red/black/wild rice, oats, millet, etc) mixed with chopped or small-sized veggies mixed in (corn, peas and carrots, chopped broccoli, hominy, chopped green beans, sweet potatoes, etc) and a nice, dripping-wet leafy green (romaine lettuce, chicory, escarole, raw broccoli, cabbage, bok choy, nappa, etc) for breakfast and all day picking and just about one tablespoon of seed for dinner at sunset.