Could some one help me in identifying the variety of the millet in the below picture. I was thinking it as French white millet, but not sure.

 

Sorry for the poor quality picture .

 

i have know idea what its called, but i do know that if my budgies were inside right now and saw that picture, they would be dive bombing the screen to get at that yummy seed hehehehe

Edited March 20, 200817 yr by **Liv**

i have know idea what its called, but i do know that if my budgies were inside right now and saw that picture, they would be dive bombing the screen to get at that yummy seed hehehehe

 

 

haha

Here is a link on millet alot of times when you do a google you will find the answers quicker (not that we can't help) but that is what I do Information on Millet.

Here is a link on millet alot of times when you do a google you will find the answers quicker (not that we can't help) but that is what I do Information on Millet.

Elly, before I post some thing here as you have said I would always first check by googling.....but the issue is that in google I have come across soooooooooo many varieties of millets and also I never found some thing very closely matching with the one I have posted.

 

So thought of checking with you all and know the exact name of this seed variety. Since in every part of the world it can be called with different names. Also in india this is the major regular base seed served to Budgies.

I think your right it’s called French White Millet it’s in most of our mixtures here is Australia, but in my experience the birds don’t like it as much as some of the smaller type millets which we call Hungarian & Japanese Millet [there are a few types of Japanese millet] one of the main seeds we use is called Canary seed, it’s more Grey in colour & has a sharp end on each side of it, whether that would be available in India I wouldn’t know & what you call it I wouldn’t know either. It’s scientific name is Phalaris canariensis…which is a colder climate grass.

It looks like white french as Norm said. Jap is darker and panicum is a more reder/orangy colour.

Thanks Norm and Daz, if possible will try to get you another better picture of this. Since I don't have a digital camera yet, soon planning for one and till then I need to fully depend on my friends.

 

Norm last 2 weekends I went out to local market in search of few seed varities (Canary, French Millet, Jap Millet, Panicum, Hulled oats (grouts), and niger), which Daz suggested in another topic. But looks like no one local store person in market here is knowing of Canary, French Millet, Jap Millet, and Panicum by these names and regarding Hulled Oats, they finally end up showing me rice or wheat with hull.

 

The one showed in the picture is the only plane seed which is fully fed to budgies here by all the breeders or budgie owners.

 

Norm if you don't mind when you have some time, can you get some close and clear pictures of few base seed varities you feed to your birds, so that I will try showing these pictures to the local store person and see if I can get hold of some seed variety for my birds. Thanks :hap:

Edited March 22, 200817 yr by Karthik

Okay atlast I have managed to get some better pictures.

 

 

 

This one with flash

Any ideas what is this seed variety name in overseas.

 

Note: All these new pictures size is showing as 1024 x 768, but in photobucket it is showing as 448 x 336. Not sure what is the wrong.