Opinions on pretty bird pellets?

[onamom]

My Ona girl came home from the breeder weaned on Pretty Bird pellets with a small amount of Cockatiel seed mix added in. I’ve stopped adding the seed mix and am now using that for training treats. She eats just the pellets fine. In fact she’s a little piggy and eats practically anything we put in front of her.

Opinions on pretty bird pellets? Link here: https://www.greatcompanions.com/product/pretty-bird-daily-select-bird-food/bird-supplies

She’s getting fresh veggies too.

Edit: link above doesn’t list ingredients… this one does: https://www.prettybird.com/breeder-select.html

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

My first conure was raised on Pretty Bird Pellets, as were my first cockatiels. They did okay on them, though they are a bit expensive. SOme people don't live the fact they use dyes to color their pellets. I can't remember if they still do that.

 

[HeatherG]

I think the colored pellets make bird droppings more “staining” to clothes, carpet, and furniture, so I don’t feed them and transition a bird off of them. However, when Lucy broke her leg and stayed at the UW vet clinic, that’s all they fed. She wouldn’t eat a bit of it and I had to bring her regular zupreem. (UW clinic seemed to think she was a brat but I’m glad she got her birdie needs met.)

I know that Jasper (Meyers) prefers the fruit blend zupreem that Willow refuses to his natural zupreem.

Jasper likes bright colored toys, too, where Willow is scared of them. I have always thought the colored pellets were a marketing tool aimed at owners. Who knows?

(There’s a “chicken thoughts” comic strip about this but I can’t find it.)

 

[BirdyBee]

I'm not a fan of coloured pellets, not only because colours are unnecessary but also because they can change the colour of the droppings, making it harder to tell illness.

Here is a good list of pellets and ingredients:

Ingredients to pellets

Pellets are something everyone has a opinion about, because of this I went around and found as many ingredients as I could and posted them all together on this thread. It will be a great place to compare ingredients and for people new to the world of parrots will be able to see what is available...

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