Lafeber Premium Daily Diet Parakeet Food, 5-lb tub

It can be very difficult to convert birds that are seed eaters to a pelleted diet. So I make muffins using the pellets in the recipe to get my birds to eat it I'll give you the recipe. 2 cups of pellets such as these lafeber's, I pulverize them into a powder the first few times, then I only pulverize half of them after they get used to them. 1 very ripe banana. 1/3 cup wheat germ oil (I substitute 1/3 cup applesauce). 1/3 cup vegetable oil (I prefer to use red palm oil Harrison's sells it). 6 large eggs. 2 heaping tbls of canned pumpkin (not pie filling). 1 heaping tbls of applesauce, add this even if you substituted applesauce for the wheat germ oil. 1 cup frozen mixed vegetables, thawed It can be very difficult to convert birds that are seed eaters to a pelleted diet. So I make muffins using the pellets in the recipe to get my birds to eat it I'll give you the recipe. 2 cups of pellets such as these lafeber's, I pulverize them into a powder the first few times, then I only pulverize half of them after they get used to them. 1 very ripe banana. 1/3 cup wheat germ oil (I substitute 1/3 cup applesauce). 1/3 cup vegetable oil (I prefer to use red palm oil Harrison's sells it). 6 large eggs. 2 heaping tbls of canned pumpkin (not pie filling). 1 heaping tbls of applesauce, add this even if you substituted applesauce for the wheat germ oil. 1 cup frozen mixed vegetables, thawed and gently squeeze out the excess water with paper towels. 1 cup canned pinto beans, drained, but save the liquid. 1 cup of cooked brown rice, allow to cool to room temp. 2 cups of cornmeal. 4 tbls baking powder (I usually use half the amount). Mix the first 8 ingredients in a food processor, add the beans and brown rice and process just enough to blend. Pour into a large bowl and add the cornmeal and baking powder. It should have the consistency of cornbread batter. if it's to dry add some liquid from the pinto beans. This will make one 13X9 cake pan or 24 muffins. I make muffins and I line them with paper liners and individually freeze them I remove the paper liner before freezing. Bake at 350 until knife inserted comes out clean. I usually use baby food jars of applesauce. You can mix this up and replace applesauce with pears or a combination of both. Once your bird is used to this you can stop pulverizing the pellets and they will find chunks of pellets in their muffins and get used to them. And hopefully eat them. … more

A bit pricey but worth it! My birds are very picky eaters and they have hated all the pellet foods I’ve gotten them. This is the only pellet food they will eat. Thank you for making my birds healthier!

I know you are going to hate this, but I am going to say the same thing again. I do not eat bird seed and my birds don’t talk, just make a lot of noise. They eat the seed, no complaints, no left over seed.

I have 10 Budgies they all have gone from not liking these pellets to loving them ! Read the Directions before using !!!!!!!!

No budgies love eating it I was skeptical at first about buying it but then I read the ingredients and I bought it and I mixed it in with their seeds that I bought previously and they are eating everything they love it they literally have eaten entire bowl of it and they normally don’t do that

He doesn't like the food, leaves it in his feeder or throws it out.

My 3 budgies absolutely hated this food. I'm not sure what it was but I do know it stinks. I wasted a good 90% + of this food. I had to go out and purchase another brand to try and trick them with a mixture. They still tossed this one and ate the other.

Unfortunately none of my 6 birds would eat this. They took a bite and proceeded to throw this out of their dishes. Tried soaking and mixing but no way.

My little snowball loves this brand and I will continue to get it for her in the future.

I have been trying to feed my parakeet Zupreem parakeet pellet & he had no intrest. I decided to try Lafebers. I put this new pellet in his bowl and overnight he ate it ALL! Highly recommend this!