small parrot mix

[jusdeb]

Seems that no matter where I buy my seed mix its going to have too much sunflower for my liking soooo what about this for an idea ?

To a 30 kilo bag of small parrot mix I might add a small bag of budgie mix ....dont know how much to add but first was wondering if this could be a solution .

And if it is a goer then how much budgie would be alright ?

[VR1Ton]

Easier way might be to buy a bag of budgie & add the amount of sunflower (& safflower if you use it) and go from there. I buy all individual seeds & mix my own, that way you know there is no waste.

[Buzzard-1]

Trail small mix's of different ratio's and see how the birds go

[jusdeb]

Individual seeds here end up costing a small fortune compared to ready mixed seed ...

Will have to google whats in Budgie and go from there ....dont know what % of what to add to it though , all I know is if this keeps up the hens will be too fat to fit in the nest boxes come breeding time .

[Buzzard-1]

too fat to fit in the nest boxes

That wouldn't be worrying me going into winter

[VR1Ton]

Problem with premix is it varies every batch to what is availible & cheap at the time, you can get one bag with a good amount of canary, sunflower & safflower, the next bag will be nearly all Yellow Panicum, & hard pressed to find any canary or safflower. Even when I was getting seed mixed in Brisbane, the ratios over time were changed, & the price increased to compensate for say canary, when they were actually reducing the amount compared to what we were ordering in the mix.

[jusdeb]

Good point Buzz ... yes VR1 its never consistent , the last bag was just right but this bag has so much sunflower in it .

[Pete Sara]

always handy to have some white millet on standby to help thin out the mix...have had to do that a few times...but adding budgie mix even easier , but if its like the crap we can get over here its almost all oats....pete

[bleeding green]

I buy the budgie and add safflower. My lovebirds get this, parrots get the pellets. I offer sunflower in a soaked mix which is frozen and often mixed in with the frozen vegies. This way I control it.

[thehammer]

Dry Seed is so poor these days compared to even 10-15 years ago. I can remember when the Canary seed was sold in 60 kg bags and it was good quality.

I used to buy Blue Budgie as it was 60% canary seed, then they started changing mix ratios and dropped the canary %. Sometimes I purchased Love bird/small parrot mix. I don’t think I ever received too much sunflower seed in the mixes.

I now just mix my own to minimize wastage and feed the sunflower seed soaked.