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At FFlocks, we define "bird feeds" as any food that is not either a seed mix or a supplement. This includes all pellets, egg foods, hand-feeding diets, etc.

Pellets

     There are so many good pellets out there today, and new ones that keep turning up all the time. This can make it very hard to chose one for your bird.  Listed below are a few things to consider when you are looking for pellets:

     1. While there are a lot of brands of pellets, getting them can be difficult and if you get you bird onto one and then you can't find that brand, you have to start all over again with a new brand.  Try to choose a brand of pellets that are readily available in your area.

     2. Nutritionally, most of the top brands of pellets are very similar.  You may have to try a few different brands to see which one your bird will eat.

     3. Some of the brands have a short shelf life or they don't move very quickly, which means that the stock left on the retailers/wholesalers shelves is near or has passed the expiry date.  Check the expiry date on the bag before you buy it, if you can not understand the code ask a salesperson to help you.

     4. Some brands of pellets are brilliantly coloured, for your benefit, not the birds, though it is not uncommon for a bird to eat one colour of pellet & leave the rest as waste. Unfortunately, these levels of food colouring may be as detrimental as they are pretty. There is still a lot of question about the safety of food colours in our own food so how come it is OK to saturate the birds food in it. The other problem that we have noticed is that when birds are fed these pellets, a lot of the food colouring goes right through them. You may think that this isn't too bad, until you realize that one of the first things a Veterinarian looks at to understand what is going on inside a bird is their poop! The colour and consistency of the stools is a very good indicator of what is going on inside of a bird. When the stools are coming out bright red/green/yellow/purple/etc, studying the stools just became a lot harder to do.  Try to get your bird to eat a "natural" pellet, no food colouring, or a brand that uses very little food colouring such as Hagen Tropican.

     FFlocks carries, Hagen Tropican pellets, Zupreem Maintenance (natural), Zupreem Fruit pellets and Kaytee Exact pellets.

Other Foods/Treats

     There are plenty of other foods and treats available for birds.  In most cases these foods should be considered as a treat for your bird as they quite often have a lot of fatty/oil seeds in them, such as sunflower, safflower, pumpkin, peanuts, niger, sesame, hemp, etc.  These foods quite often have other things added to them as well, such as pellets, dried fruit, dried greens, etc.  The addition of these last items is quite good for your bird, if your bird will eat them.

     We carry the following "Other Foods/Treats": a complete line of Hagen Gourmet and Hagen Tropimix.  Tropimix is an wonderful addition to the birds diet as it is 100% digestible and contains a wide range of dried fruits, legumes and nuts.

Egg Foods

     Breeders generally feed egg Foods to canaries, finches and some parrot-type while these birds are rearing young. Egg foods are high in protein and are used as a substitute for the insects that these birds would eat in the wild. In the case of the canary, the insects that the canaries ancestors would eat. The canary still requires this high protein when they are feeding young.

     FFlocks has Hagen's Tropimix Budgie/Canary eggfood as well as Hagen's Egg Granules.

Hand-Feeding Diets

     FFlocks sells Zupreem Embrace and Embrace Plus Hand-feeding diets.  Zupreem Embrace is suitable for Lovebirds to Conures to Amazons and African Greys.  Zupreem Embrace Plus is suitable for Cockatiels to Cockatoos.
      We carry Hagen Tropican Breeding Mash, which is Hagen's hand-feeding diet.
     We also carry Katyee's Exact Hand-feeding diet.

Soft-bill Diets

     Soft-bill birds, such as Mynahs and Touracos, require a diet that is low in Iron as they suffer from Iron-Storage disease.  We carry two brands of soft-bill foods that are both low in Iron.
     We carry Hagen's Soft-bill Bird Food.
     We also carry Mazuri^® ZuLiFe™ Soft-Bill Diet  which is an extruded pellet that is an excellent diet as well as it works well for hand-feeding soft-bills.