In a pet shop, I have recently seen a natural bunch with a plenty of seeds on it. (Sorry for a long description, i don't know what it is called )

 

I was excited to buy it at first, but it was so expensive. What do you think about them, do the budgies like picking their seeds in a "natural" way? Is it worth to pay that much money? Or, any cheaper way to buy?

They love it. If you are referring to the green bunches of seed...they go mad on it. I sometimes buy it for a treat for the kindie cage babies or the mums with babies in nestboxes. If you mean the dried millet sprays ....same rule applies

Edited May 30, 200916 yr by KAZ

In a pet shop, I have recently seen a natural bunch with a plenty of seeds on it. (Sorry for a long description, i don't know what it is called )

 

I was excited to buy it at first, but it was so expensive. What do you think about them, do the budgies like picking their seeds in a "natural" way? Is it worth to pay that much money? Or, any cheaper way to buy?

 

I think what you are referring to is a MILLET SPRAY. Yes, they can be expensive but they are real favourites with budgies and a good tip is to start adding them to the nest box so the chickies lear to eat seed before they fledge.

They love bunches of millet spray. You can get it much more cheaply from a seed merchant. To store it, hang it in a warm, dry place.

Millet spray my birds go crazy over. I use it almost solely as a training treat and inside foraging toys, because they love it so much and are happy to work for it. It makes them work a bit for their food because they have to pick out the seeds, especially if you hang it in a hard to reach location or inside a toy (captive foraging). This helps by stimulating their brains and bodies a little - a wild bird would spend almost the entire day (over six hours) looking for food, whereas our indoor birds spend about twenty seconds to climb down to the seed dish and pick out their favourite seed.

 

So I advise using it to make them work for their food. I don't hang much millet spray in the cage "for free" because they choose it over anything else in there (except sunflower! But they only get that occasionally!). Be aware that seeds are deficient in many essential nutrients and high in fat, so don't let them gorge all day on the millet spray. This is only one type of seed so the deficiencies will be even worse.

Edited May 30, 200916 yr by Chrysocome

my birds love Millet spray my birds go crazy over to

 

i will go with what Chrysocom send

Edited May 30, 200916 yr by shannon bird breeder

I buy millet spray but in the bag also comes a bone coloured bunch of grass seed type thing. not sure what species it is but they absolutely love it even more than the millet!