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You can always supplement and provide things with food but natural is best. Your birds will live fine and have for centuries without Uv lighting BUT the way our bodies assimilate nutrients with the aid of natural sunlight can never be duplicated no matter what you do. We all need natural sunlight just as much as we need darkness. Anything that will tell you we (us AND other animals) can survive without natural sunlight ever just by diet alone is nonsense. It also aids in our mental state. Birds were designed for the outdoors. I have a small 18 inch light fixture that mounts flat like for under the counter? It cost 8 dolllars at walmart and the bulb was just over 8 dollars. I lay them right on top of the cage. Inexpensive, hardly can even see it there till I turn it on, makes the birds look stunning (the colors really come out). Then I plugged it into a very inexpensive timer.
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