RoudyBush Daily Maintenance Bird Food, Medium, 25-Pound

I am allergic to a lot of grass pollens, and real grain or seed-based diets set off my allergies (its not the feathers, its the pollen and dust from the feed!). This pelleted food impressed me as being healthier for both me, and my birds. Parrots really should not be eating a lot of seeds, or the mainly seed-based diets, because that is not their natural diet and some of them eat too much of it (too high in starch) and become malnourished. Actually, they like to crack the shells of seeds and that is probably why some parrots go crazy for seed-based bird foods - and become unhealthy. Sort of like humans and buttered popcorn, potato chips and dips. :) This is a high quality pelleted parrot food, and they eat almost every bit (some dust or bits spilled outside the cage are lost, but nothing like all the shells on the floor, or the claw-fulls of fancy colored pellets that one of my birds likes to throw - like a little baseball pitcher). If I don't have time to give them fresh or cooked treats, they can thrive on this pelleted food alone and never tire of it. So it is clean, easy to feed, approved by all my birds, and is reasonably priced - -no more than some of the other brands. Their feathers shine and have wonderful color after a few months on this feed. I like it that Tom Roudybush did his graduate studies at UC Davis at the famous animal nutrition department, and then set out to produce one of the most wholesome but reasonably-priced commercial bird foods. It still outperforms the other pellets, even if it doesn't look like eye-candy in the bowl. It is minimally processed, wholesome, and apparently tasty to parrots. The medium sized pellets are meant for my amazon and pionus parrots, but sometimes they like the small or mini which are more "seed sized" and sometimes even the smaller birds enjoy gnawing on the larger sizes. It is funny to see a small bird clutching a chunk of large pellet in one foot and gnawing at it. BTW, if your bird is not used to pelleted food, and you want to get it to eat a new food, introduce very gradually. Also, empty the dish every day -- you don't want to find that the dish was full of shells of other seeds plus pellets, and your bird is going hungry because it refuses the strange new pellet. You might clean the dish in the morning and put just a few pellets in as a treat in the morning - -some birds pick them up as toys. Later in the day, add a day's worth of their old food on top of the pellets -- if any are left. For some birds, you might want to gradually increase pellets (only after signs that the bird does pick up and nibble at pellets) very very slowly, over a month or so, while decreasing the other foods. You might smear a tiny bit of peanut butter on a medium or large pellet and offer it as a "toy" (sneaky, but effective, if your bird likes peanut butter, as most parrots do). When your parrot clearly sees this as a special treat, you can then switch to this as its new food more quickly. My birds were raised with all sorts of foods, so are not picky, but given a choice, now will pick out the Roudybush pellets and eat them first! Fun to watch them hurrying to the food bowl and lingering over a size that fits nicely in their claw when they want to pick something up to eat as "hand food." :) I have not been able to buy Roudybush locally,and just bought a small bag to tide us over until next week when I will order a 10 lb bag.

Been using Roudybush for about 10 years. Absolutely incredible quality, especially for the value! They have my partner and I as customers for life. 6 out of 5 stars. Thank you Roudybush!

This is the only bird food we feed our Indian ringneck, and he absolutely loves it. I’ve tried other brands in the past and he always picked around them, but he eats this one with no problem at all. The pellets are a good size, the quality seems consistent, and it keeps him healthy and happy. We buy it regularly and always keep a spare bag on hand.

Love Roudybush for our 2 Sun Conures and 2 Caiques. It is simply the best researched, best quality product for your feathered friends. Zupreem is also solid, though having tried both, I'd say our birds prefer the Roudybush and seem to be healthier and happier when we feed it to them. At the very least it's reassuring that this is the food several respected breeders and aviaries use. It's also been scientifically formulated and researched over the years, and has been shown to increase lifespan by as much as 10 years over seed-based diets. That said, do not buy PrettyBird -- which is cheap poor quality. And do not expect your birds to love it if you've been feeding them seed. It will take time to transition them over, but they will adjust in time. Starting with RB as a mix-in and increasing the proportion daily is a good way. We also found that letting our Sun sit in the bag and dig in it worked well -- as funny as that is. We used to do all seed (thinking this was the right thing to do) and learned later how important it is to balance our birds diets with more organic (non-seed foods). Now we use mostly Roudybush and fresh fruit daily, with just a small amount of seed (either as a treat some days, or as a mix in -- though we've found that mixing the two is sometimes counter productive as one of our Suns will dump all the pellets on the floor of the cage trying to get the seed). One note -- this medium size can work for Caiques and Conures (esp if you have the kind who like to crunch things up), but we find the smaller size suits our birds better. Just good to know you can buy this in a pinch if the small size is out of stock when you need it.

My macaws love this product

UPDATE:I just went to purchase another bag and really wish (with 20/20 hindsight!) that I'd bought more! The great price I found weeks ago is gone! Instead of eighteen dollars it's now twenty-five for the same bag! I know prices fluctuate a little bit, but thirty nine percent in six weeks?? It's still good food, but I may start looking at other brands... I never thought of looking on Amazon for this before! It's the exact same pellet type food we've fed our parrots for the last five years, only instead of paying nearly $30 per bag BEFORE tax I now can get them here! Delivered to my door without the time and fuel costs of driving across town. Saving the tax is a bonus! Our birds like these, they offer complete nutrition and we've never had any health issues with any of our birds. The breeder we bought them from prefers Rowdybush so we've kept them on it since they were weaned, and two of our birds we fed the "baby formula" version of this starting from just a few weeks old. These pellets have a good long shelf life so are very convenient for us to use. We don't have to make a trip every week or two to get more that way. (of course, now we don't have to travel any further than the mailbox!) There are really only two negatives to Rowdybush, and the same might be true for ANY pellet foods. First, you sometimes can get infested with flour moths hidden inside the grain that don't hatch until after you open the bag. They are a real annoyance and both have ruined a bunch of our food and driven us crazy! Best thing we've found to help avoid this is we put every bag in our deep freezer (kept at 0 F/-18 C) for at least two days before we ever open the bag. Don't know if there are other ways but it's worked for us. The other issue is a real puzzler. All of our parrots seem to love putting large amounts of their food into their water bowls. If you don't catch it right away and let the water go overnight with the food in it it somehow ferments in some fashion and makes a very disgusting smelling mess! This is probably true of other pellet foods as well, I just don't know for sure... It always amazes me how odorless pellets smell SO unpleasant when none of the individual ingredients start to smell until they physically start to rot. In any case, we are entirely satisfied with this product, especially since it comes in four sizes so everyone can get the best size for every size parrot from a green cheeked conure, sun conure, Hahn's macaw (smallest macaw breed) to our severe macaw. There's also a bigger size pellet for the bigger guys.

Very nice dress.

my cockatoo love this

My african likes it

新しい餌にすると、なかなか食べないルリコンゴウインコで、こちらも、最初なかなか食い付きませんでしたが、今では、とても喜んで食べてくれます 毎日、一粒残さず食べてくれます うちは、4種類の餌を一緒に与えています

These pellets are easy to hold and eat my parrot loves them glad I swapped from seed to pellets his feathers have gone beautifull

オカメインコを飼っています。 こればよく食べるし体調も良さそうです。

Great for my cockatoo