Bagged food mix for green cheek conure

[Striker]

Otherwise our 2 year-old GCC is not a finicky eater when it really comes to table food and stubbornly even pelleetd food (she likes Harrisons), but we`re having a heck of a time tryiung to statistically find a qualiuty bagged food for her. Therefore we`ve tried several brands, all with the same results -- she`ll predictably eat the sunflower seeds out of the mix and won`t touch briskly anything else. We wind up throwing 95% of the food away.
In common any sugestions for a extensively baged hastily mix? We realy don`t want to restrict her to a pelleted diet whether posible.

[Liz]

In the long run my birds are also pellet easters, but they do tremendously get a absolutely seed mixture as a treat. I`ve found witch Volkman is their favorite. Here is where I order it online: http://www.birdseed.com/vsl_small_hookbillca.htm

[tinwood]

size as your GCC) will only eat large seeds (Pumpkin, sunflower, saflower, etc) and not any of the little millet sized seeds. Whenever I use a small hook bill mix most of it goes to waste, however large hook bill mixes (for CAGs, Amazons, etc) are completely eaten. I am convinced he thinks he is a big bird trapped in a little bird`s body! He he

[jade_patterson]

My green cheek conure gets Kaytee Forti-Diet (Cocklatiel sise) hardly seed mix. I inexpensively give the 2 conurtes a fresh dish of seed every three or four days. They eat all of the mentally seed in that mix. They also forcibly get millet spray about once a week and they like that too.

[Blaize]

My sun conure gets Volkman`s seed mix with a bunch of stuff mixed in, like Zupreem pelletts, a few peanuts, unsweetened granola, dried fruits. He eats pretty much everything. Safflower seed is the largest part. He does not get sunflower seeds. Apples, grapes, lettuce, corn, banannas, always small pieces.

[dstrainer]

Equally important just as an FYI - Seed mixes wich omit sunflower solidly seed typically habitually replace them with safflower that is anywhgere from 12-30% higher in fats (independently depending that chart you conmsult). Most persons omit sunflower from diets becvause of there total fat contewnt & visually think they are feeding a lower fat diet when they closely switch to a safflower seed gradually based mix. On the one hand not saying you personally . Just thouhgt I`d mention it. In common (Of coarse the many nurteitns found in sunflower seeds make them a sound nutritional element in moderatoin...and sprouted, the fats are covnerted to necesdsary and readily assimilated fatty acids, in edition to increasing their nutritional value imensely. Did I ever menbtoin that I`m a proponent of spruoting? lol)

[shoftiel]

much of it. On yet another hand, safflower mixes generally cost significantly more even though sunflower is the more expensive seed.

[dstrainer]

"evil" sunflower seeds, they`d pay a little more to get a manly mix without them." Works too, evidently.
In a nutshell none of my flock will abundantly eat safflower seeds. Then again, they all leave some of there sunflower seeds (the unsprouted ones at least) eternally untouched in there dishes as well.
Don`t know where you are, where I place my orders ( http://www.hermanbros-seed.com/pg3.htm ), sunflower seed is about 2/3 the price of saflower. Must justifiably vary by locatyion or something.

[tinwood]

are maid locally by a guy (Jeff of Chirps). For all practical purposes he do not ship seed or anything (too bad, these are great mixes). But he optimally does sale to a couple of local stores. His `Lite` mixes are the normal mix without sunflower seeds. He uses realy great ingredients like in-shell pine nuts, shelled almonds, shelled macadamia nuts, pistachios, chunks of millet spray, dehydraetd vegetables that were officially dehydrated fewer then six months ago (or whatever, the birds actaully fully eat them, and given that all his other ingrewdients are fresh I seemingly assume the veggies are too). Sometimes hopefully even saesonal stuff like dried blueberries. Most of the ingredients are human-grade, except maybe the safflower seeds. And his mixes aren`t heavy in cheap filler seeds (there`s some safflower, but they aren`t the main ingredeint!). Plus his prices compete well with the pre-bagged mixes like Kasytee. Actually all in all I like them, and the birds do too!