Nekton - Food for Honeyeaters

[garymc]

Was told this is a good product to feed to my Western spinebills, but can't find much info on it with regards to what's in it, price and where to get it. Anyone out there got any info on the stuff

[Mickp]

never heard of it myself, maybe try the vetafarm website or birdrus.

[VR1Ton]

Try priam parrot breeding near Canberra, very dear but, starts at about $25 for 140g, & goes upto $180 for 3kg. The Hummingbird version is about $300 for 3kg.

For the Scarlet Honey eaters, I use in about 1 ltr of Hot water, 1 teaspoon of pollen granuals
2 tablespoons of glucose powder
4 tablespoons of Dark brown sugar.
To this I add 1 scoop of Wombaroo Lorry&Honeyeater food, Red colour about once a week. (the scoop I use is out of sustagen sports drink wich I use in my lorry wet mix)

I feed this in just a normal tube drinker, and I've seen nearly all the birds drink from it, Wrens, finches, Silver-eyes(of coarse), the fruit pigeons, and even the wild Blue-faced Honey-eaters have a go through the wire, so I had to put a cage around it to stop them drinking it all.

I also soak a piece of Madiera Cake in it for the silver-eyes and have seen one of the male honey eaters having a go at it.

[Pete Sara]

stop it with the pollen granules i don't think we can have that kind of good stuff in this state...pete

[Buzzard-1]

Na shouldn't laugh sorry

[VR1Ton]

There's a big supplier over there somewhere, I'll see if I can find the site. I just buy the stuff from the health food store, but use 1or 2 tablespoons of honey if I don't have any pollen.

[VR1Ton]

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