Bird Food Pellet Conversion Made Easy
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Bird Food Pellet Conversion Made Easy

We get a lot of people who call and e-mail asking how to convert their birds to a pellet diet. The advantage of a pellet bird food diet is that pellets are considered engineered foods. In other words the bird food manufacturers decide what components are necessary for a nutritious diet and then they blend the ingredients by grinding them up and extruding them so that each individual pellet contains a precisely controlled diet. 

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Seeking Bird Food for Multiple Species of Birds
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Seeking Bird Food for Multiple Species of Birds

Thanks for speaking with me today.

Here is a list of my birds and the emails from Hagen.

The birds are all breeding pairs: 6 English Budgies, 6 Pacific Parrotlets, 5 Bourke’s, 4 Red Rumps, 4 Eastern Rosellas, 3 Green Cheek Conure’s, 2 White Belly Caiques, and 1 Senegal.

As I mentioned it would be easier for me to have only two diets for these birds.

Whatever help you can be would be appreciated and I look forward to working with you.

Don
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Is It Normal for an Indian Ringneck to Feed a Lovebird?
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Is It Normal for an Indian Ringneck to Feed a Lovebird?

Do you know of anyone who makes cages for disabled birds? I’m looking for something probably made of plexiglass for a Congo. He/she is about 7 weeks old. Has a bad right leg. He is standing on his left & seems like he will perch. 

I’m going to be moving him into a plastic bucket that I can make perches for. If he learns to perch, I’ll be looking for a cage. It was an option to have the leg removed.

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