Last Updated on June 3, 2023 by Mitch Rezman

Lafeber Company was built by a father-son team of veterinarians with a shared love of animals and a special passion for birds.

Micro rant-> Most caged bird keepers give nowhere near the credit our birds deserve.

The caged prisoner you care for has the potential to mimic human speech, can fly, can use their feet as well as their beaks to manipulate food and other objects – knows the precise time of day – can pre-plan events into the future – and did I mention they can fly?

The single biggest refrain we hear from our customers is “my bird doesn’t like” – fill in the blank.

Drilling down, what we are saying is “I’m a 75 kg human that is accepting the decisions of a 100 g feathered animal”

Real-life example.

We love Lafeber’s Avi Cakes because of their 100% nutritional proposition.

The second week Peaches, our Senegal parrot was home I cracked open a bag of Avi-Cakes “for parrots” and offered a square to Peaches.

She’d have nothing to do with it.

She would not beak it, she would not grab it with her right “eating” foot.

I thought about it for a moment, ground the square between my thumb and forefinger making it into a jumbled strand of seed and pellets.

It instantly became one of her favorite nutritional substrates.

This isn’t rocket surgery people.

End rant

We have taken this attitude about Lafebers foraging foods to our 10 budgies.

If we get a cracked container of nutriberries, we receive a credit from the lafeber company and then grind them up for our keets.

They devour bird food with (8%) pellets.

 

Classic Parrot Nutri-Berries: Recommended number to feed the companion parrot
Body weight (g)	Kcl/day	Berries/day	50% waste*
100	28.79	2	4
200	47.75	3	6
300	64.2	4	8
400	79.2	5	10
500	93.21	6	12
600	106.48	7	14
700	119.16	8	16
800	131.36	9	18
900	143.16	20	20
1000	154.6	11	22
1100	165.74	11	22
1200	176.61	12	24
1300	187.24	13	26
1400	197.64	13	26
1500	207.85	14	28
*Number of berries recommended daily assuming 50% waste