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Tropimix No Shell Enrichment Formula by Hagen HARI Small Parrot 20 lb SPECIAL ORDER ONLY

Repacked Bird Food Can Be Bad for Your Bird’s Health

It has come to our attention that some of our retail outlets have been re-packaging our small animal and bird food products to suit to their market needs.
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Great Bird Food Pellet Conversion Tip from Hagen

Mitch Rezman
December 9, 2011
Feeding Pet Birds / Pellet conversion tips
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Tropimix method of diet conversion helps in removing any instinctual tendency a bird might have in a new diet; i.e. if the bird doesn’t recognize the food as food, their instinct advises them that it is probably poison.

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Tropimix No Shell Enrichment Formula by Hagen HARI Large Parrot 4 lb

How Do I Reduce Wasted Bird food?

I’ve been feeding my grey Loving World/Hari premium large parrot food. Her feathers have improved, but I notice there’s a lot of waste.

She doesn’t like the tropican biscuits, and doesn’t always eat much of the small black sunflower seeds.

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I Have a Very Picky Female Eclectus Parrot

From: Susan M

I have a very picky female eclectus parrot. I have tried every food that I could find in pet stores etc. Someone told me about Windy city Parrot . (more…)

Bird Food Factory Sealed for Freshness

Catherine Tobsing
November 7, 2011
A Better Bird / Bathing and Health / Feeding Pet Birds / Senior Birds / Website Shopping
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Like any good retailer, we constantly check our competition online. Sometimes we see prices on some of the same bird food pellets or bird seed that is priced just too low to make sense and like anything else in life, you-get-what-you-pay-for.

Upon investigation, we often find that the bird food or pellets they are selling have been rebagged in zip locks, canisters and boxes. We’ve even seen the term “heat sealed.” (Remember Seal-A-Meals?)

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Is Higgins Millet Really Organic?

Find Versele-Laga French Organic Millet for Birds Here

Thanks for touching base with me on that. Actually, I haven’t used any of the millet yet because the package says on it natural not organic. What does that mean? Everything is natural, even preservatives and pesticides. It’s all from nature.

Is it organic and why doesn’t the package say so?

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What’s the Story with Parrot Food Pellets?

Parrot Food Pellets
So what’s the deal with parrot food pellets? They’re popular for many reasons but on the flip side, there are no pellet trees in the rainforest. With all the bird foods on the market, why would you select pellets over a seed diet? Can a bird survive on an all pellet or all-seed diet?

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