Conure diet

[ashmash]

Not sure if this is in the right place or not... I'm on tapatalk and am having a hard time finding things...

Anyway, I'm looking for the best diet for my new GCC. I can't seem to find any corn, wheat, and soy free pellets (we are GMO free in this house, animals included). In fact, that seems to be the main ingredients in pellets.

I don't want to feed a seed only diet, and will include fresh foods, but I'm not going to feed fillers to my bird. Especially soy. That's nasty stuff.

Any good gmo free bird foods out there? Or recipes to make it myself?

 

[ashmash]

I just found one. TOPs pellets. Any others?

 

[Dinosrawr]

Harrison's claims organic, but it may not be entirely GMO free. I prefer Harrison's over TOPs and so do my birds.

 

[SilverSage]

I don't feed many pellets because I prefer a fresh and live food diet for my birds. Yes, pellets are better than an all dry seed diet, but an all dry seed diet is about the worst thing you can feed! I look at it like this;

All dry seed for birds = all bread diet for humans. You can find seed quality from white bread to whole grain bread, but it is still bread.

All pellet diet = all "health bar" diet for humans. Has some good stuff in it, some better, some worse, but has some nonsense too, most of the time. Not natural, processed food with a lot of guesswork involved.

Fresh and live diet = fresh and live diet!

By fresh I mean fresh or frozen, really, not canned, dried, etc. lots and lots of veggies and fruit a couple of times a week (don't get tricked into feeding too much fruit, the sugar content is high and can lead to fatty liver disease even though it is "healthy."). By live I mean sprouts. I sprout Volkmans brand seeds of appropriate size for the species, in your case, the conure/lovebird mix. Do not feed cockatiel mixes if you can avoid it, there is too high of a fat content for your conure. I also sprout single seed batches of lentils, chick peas, quinoa, safflower, sunflower, mung beans, and others. Sprouting is very nutritious and is cheap and easy.

Fresh is amazing, but don't be afraid to freeze! Organic veggies that were frozen while fresh are still amazing for your bird, and the sprouts do very well frozen.

 

[Ann333]

That reminds me... sprouts... petco sells sprouts labeled for cats like catnip, and a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head... Is this safe to buy for birds?

 

[ashmash]

Can you list some examples of foods to feed in a day/week?

 

[ashmash]

And what you buy for your birds?

 

[weco]

As SS alluded to and since you mentioned feeding fresh foods, you might want to search the forums for chop recipes, a lot of members around here prepare fresh foods for their birds...there's usually one recipe a month posted around here or at least discussions of what so-and-so puts such and such in their bird's food.....

Look up the various recipes and you might find one or two you'd like for your new GCC.....

Good luck.....

 

[Flboy]

I don't feed many pellets because I prefer a fresh and live food diet for my birds.
Fresh and live diet = fresh and live diet!
By live I mean sprouts. I sprout Volkmans brand seeds of appropriate size for the species, in your case, the conure/lovebird mix. Do not feed cockatiel mixes if you can avoid it.

Seeds--Are you talking about using off the shelf bird seed for sprouting? That never occurred to me, but if so, what a mixture!