Aussie Finch Forum

Hi Everyone,

I found some Sorghum seed growing in our backyard, and I’m just wondering if it’s good for finches.

Thanks
Aidan

My understanding of this is that the native (wild) sorghum seed is sought out by finches, but the commercially cultivated variety is not.

Yeah it’s not the native kind, so I won’t feed it to the finches.

Never tried it with finches . .

Mate of mine used to feed cultivated variety to his breeding parrots when half-ripe, because it was readily available, and they loved it (as did the wild parrots); so probably OK at that stage for likes of munias, parroties etc

As Starman points out when ripe it is used as a cheap 'filler' for commercial mixes, and mostly wasted on all bird types