What types of finch food do you recommend?

[nopEda]

I'm interested in what particular types of bird feeds people
recommend as a general feed for zebra finches, and also anything
people would want to add as far as vitamin supplements, calcium
sources, grit, protein supplements, greens, insects, etc...

Thank you!
David

[FINCHIE]

Hi,

Visit the following site. It has alot of good info on it. The finch information centre:

http://www.finchinfo.com/index.php

Good luck

[Page0044]

Hi David, i use a good finch mix with some fruit and vegs, fresh grass seeds, they also get white ants or meal worms and most important fresh water

[Pete Sara]

nothing beats a good finch mix that well balanced.dont reccomend the stuff u buy at coles etc .i give them i mix of grit with calcium , charcol, iodine etc theres a few of these products available on the market. even cuttlefish by itself would be good. plenty of green seeding grasses. lebanese cucumber, silver beet and spinach the list goes on . fresh water daily.there are also some soft foods you can give your birds egg and busicut and one i use from passwell finch soft food. only small amounts of this stuff as they can hog it and stack on the weight.. hope this helps...pete

[gomer]

The backyarder with a single aviary and a couple of zebs.would mostly just give them a seed mix a bit of cuttle fish and the odd weed from the garden.They would survive and breed.but i know i wouldnt like to be fed the same thing all the time.
So what the others said is the ideal diet,and what i to would recomend.