Roudybush Daily Maintenance Bird Food, Mini, 10-Pound

Great for my cockatoo

Cancelled my order two weeks after accepting it. Didn't even inform me of the reason

I am allergic to a lot of grass pollens, and real grain or seed-based diets set off my allergies (its not the feathers, its the pollen and dust from the feed!). This pelleted food impressed me as being healthier for both me, and my birds. Parrots really should not be eating a lot of seeds, or the mainly seed-based diets, because that is not their natural diet and some of them eat too much of it (too high in starch) and become malnourished. Actually, they like to crack the shells of seeds and that is probably why some parrots go crazy for seed-based bird foods - and become unhealthy. Sort of like humans and buttered popcorn, potato chips and dips. :) This is a high quality pelleted parrot food, and they eat almost every bit (some dust or bits spilled outside the cage are lost, but nothing like all the shells on the floor, or the claw-fulls of fancy colored pellets that one of my birds likes to throw - like a little baseball pitcher). If I don't have time to give them fresh or cooked treats, they can thrive on this pelleted food alone and never tire of it. So it is clean, easy to feed, approved by all my birds, and is reasonably priced - -no more than some of the other brands. Their feathers shine and have wonderful color after a few months on this feed. I like it that Tom Roudybush did his graduate studies at UC Davis at the famous animal nutrition department, and then set out to produce one of the most wholesome but reasonably-priced commercial bird foods. It still outperforms the other pellets, even if it doesn't look like eye-candy in the bowl. It is minimally processed, wholesome, and apparently tasty to parrots. The medium sized pellets are meant for my amazon and pionus parrots, but sometimes they like the small or mini which are more "seed sized" and sometimes even the smaller birds enjoy gnawing on the larger sizes. It is funny to see a small bird clutching a chunk of large pellet in one foot and gnawing at it. BTW, if your bird is not used to pelleted food, and you want to get it to eat a new food, introduce very gradually. Also, empty the dish every day -- you don't want to find that the dish was full of shells of other seeds plus pellets, and your bird is going hungry because it refuses the strange new pellet. You might clean the dish in the morning and put just a few pellets in as a treat in the morning - -some birds pick them up as toys. Later in the day, add a day's worth of their old food on top of the pellets -- if any are left. For some birds, you might want to gradually increase pellets (only after signs that the bird does pick up and nibble at pellets) very very slowly, over a month or so, while decreasing the other foods. You might smear a tiny bit of peanut butter on a medium or large pellet and offer it as a "toy" (sneaky, but effective, if your bird likes peanut butter, as most parrots do). When your parrot clearly sees this as a special treat, you can then switch to this as its new food more quickly. My birds were raised with all sorts of foods, so are not picky, but given a choice, now will pick out the Roudybush pellets and eat them first! Fun to watch them hurrying to the food bowl and lingering over a size that fits nicely in their claw when they want to pick something up to eat as "hand food." :) I have not been able to buy Roudybush locally,and just bought a small bag to tide us over until next week when I will order a 10 lb bag.

My three conures adore this food and on top of the usual veggies it's kept them super healthy with amazing feather quality. Decent price, too - I get this food in ten pound bags and it lasts me about 2 months. It smells good and the bag closes to keep it fresh.

Along with some daily fresh food, my birds are healthy and happy with these pellets for the last 30 years

My bird loves this and it lasts for over a year (she is a cockatiel). She has been very healthy, and we have bought this for years.

This food has less waste and better nutrition.