Aussie Finch Forum

Hi all ,do you guys get envious at other countries and their increasing choices with bird food and bird products?I see stuff on the net that is either available in the states or the UK.Here is an example of egg food with insectivores..... http://www.tscpets.com/9245-pid.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and this company quiko has a multitude of choices - http://www.quiko.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .
Who is our best online store that might compare? Has there been a significant improvement in the recent years?

The range of foodstuffs and the premade cabinets too
Ive been trying to get a product over here the Europeans swear by but its difficult to get a reply from Customs let alone the product.

Customs is always going to be an issue.

Why be envious? Why not make your own? Perhaps fly pupae mixed with eggfood which should freeze well.

Tiaris wrote:Why be envious? Why not make your own? Perhaps fly pupae mixed with eggfood which should freeze well.

Where there is a will there is a way!It's not I can't make it it is the choice aspect and convenience.

Sometimes its a case of finding someone in Australia that has a license to import these products and then buying of them .
A certain brand of hand rearing formula only available in the USA was available from one online store only ( after an absense of quite some time ) , it cost a fortune and I was so excited to finally have some .

Guess what ? It was crap and I went straight back to my usual local product .

So 2 points there I guess > sourcing the product and is it really all they say it is .

There is a bloke in Newcastle who sells insectivorous cakes. He has a termite cake, a pupae/maggot one and a combo one. He has advertised them through the Hunter Finch Club journal (& I think in QFS one too). May be what you are looking for??

Those cakes sound awesome,be hard to know to if i`d feed to the birds or the x mother in law

What is it about x mother in laws ? I have 2 of them and they both carry pitch forks , have horns and a long pointy tail .

And just quietly number 3 is looking a bit dodgy too.

........Mine was over staying at our house and she is a smoker.Not to be unfair and smoke inside she would go outside at all hours of the night to light up and offcourse my birds would be disturbed and miss out on sleep. not while they are moulting and one is on medication.