Commercial Diets are a Nutritional Bonanza for Pet Birds

With birds becoming more popular and valued pets, manufacturers have worked with avian nutritionists to develop better bird foods. The results have been gratifying.

Pet birds now can be assured the benefits of the best and latest advances. Owners no longer have to guess what variety of seeds and other foods might make up a complete diet.

Pet birds are the real recipients of these new efforts in bird foods. With excellent diets they can reach their full potential as pet and breeding birds.

To stay strong and healthy, every bird needs 40 nutrients in each meal.

Advantages of Commercial Diets for Pet Birds

Guaranteed Balanced Diets
The main benefit that manufactured diets offer bird owners is a balanced diet. The foods guarantee 100% of the nutrition needed for life and health.

Nutritional Integrity
High quality commercial diets have been formulated by leading avian nutritionists, and field-tested by knowledgeable veterinarians and aviculturists. Ongoing programs of evaluation and updating are used. Many products have an annual nutrition review so as to provide the finest in bird products.

Economy
Many steps and superior ingredients go into the production of high quality bird foods. These may initially cost more than other bird foods on the market, but a cost effective study will show you that, when waste is controlled, better bird foods can compete with the less expensive products. Since no vitamin, mineral or protein supplement need to be added, the total cost of the nutrition program is the cost of the food.

Further, the real economy of high quality bird foods is in the resulting health of the birds. Balanced diets offer birds a maximum opportunity for excellent health, longevity and a productive life.

Offers Unexpected Results
Many birds eating high quality manufactured diets have shown unexpected improvement in appearance and disposition. No one really knows how well any bird can feel and act until they have been fed a guaranteed balanced diet. Birds are often judged to be in peak condition, but who really knows? The glowing reports of people who have changed their birds to a balanced diet confirm that many birds could be better than they are.

Controls Overeating
Birds eating a balanced diet will remain constantly at their normal weight, neither gaining or losing except for moderate seasonal fluctuations.

Changing Formulas
Since the appearance of the maintenance, and stress formulation pelleted foods varies only insignificantly, diets can be changed according to birds' nutritional needs without birds becoming alarmed about the change.

Quality Control
Laboratory tests are used to help keep food at formulated values and to assure users of a uniform product.

Variety Available in Commercial Diets

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A unique type of food for bird. - Nutri-Berries - has received much attention over the past several years and enjoys great popularity. Formed into little round balls of seed and nutrients, these berries provide important nutrients to birds in a form they enjoy eating.

In addition, fruits and vegetables have been added to some of these berries to give birds some much-needed variety in their daily dinning.

Firmly compressed cakes, such as Avi-Cakes, offer an attraction to birds and their owners not found other foods. This combination of seeds, pellets and natural flavors fulfills the balanced diet requirements and also makes birds excited about eating. The appearance attracts the birds and, once the start eating, the flavor does the rest.

Combining the nutritional excellence of a manufactured diet with the appeal of a formed product is Nuts 'n' Nuggets. Crispy, crunchy balls of sound nutrition in a form that birds really enjoy eating.

Pellets, Crumbles and Granules
Following the lead of successful nutritional achievements of other animals, bird seed manufacturers have marketed complete diets in the form of pellets, crumbles and granules.

Balanced diets make birds look and feel better.

Making a food into a pellet provides an economical method of reaching the goal of supplying birds with a balanced diet. While feeding other than seed diets is a break from tradition, it is needed for pet birds to reach the nutritional requirements for excellent health and long, productive lives. When the proper ingredients are blended together and formed into a pellet, birds are guaranteed a balanced diet in every bite.

Most seed eating birds can successfully be converted to pelleted foods, although some differences have been found in the speed of acceptance. Birds are suspicious animals-a defense mechanism which protects them from eating wrong things in the wild, sometimes restricts them to a narrow diet in captivity.

A new food suddenly introduced into the diet can frighten a bird away from his food, and, indirectly, deprive him of eating, For this reason, changing a bird from seeds to a pelleted food requires special attention.

Information on a number of methods to convert birds to pelleted food is available by clicking here.

Pellets are generally manufactured in a variety of sizes to appeal to a wide variety of pet birds.

Even though most pellets on the market appear similar, customers must depend upon the reputation of the manufacturer.