sounds great and gooby loves it but is it okay for him to eat? It contains coloured seeds (red and green).

does he like it more than ordinary seed? i am always cautious of anything with added colours. i think there are some preservatives that i think rainbow knows the names of that you have to be vary wary of. i will try and find the thread on here. look on the ingredients for those.

 

EDIT**** just found it its called ethoxyquin. im sure there are more to look out for though.

Edited August 30, 200519 yr by pixie25

I think it would be okay if it's not his only diet. Mine get a bit of seed mix every day (besides the Beak appetit, birdie bread and wheatgrass) and it has a small amount of colored seed, but the colored seed is such a small percentage of their diet I'm not too worried. They eat the avi-cakes more often than the plain seed mix.

So, I guess after all that rambling, I think he'll be fine as long as he's not eating 100% colored seeds.

 

Sorry I'm so chatty today!

does he like it more than ordinary seed? i am always cautious of anything with added colours. i think there are some preservatives that i think rainbow knows the names of that you have to be vary wary of. i will try and find the thread on here. look on the ingredients for those.

 

EDIT**** just found it its called ethoxyquin. im sure there are more to look out for though.

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Ooooh, thanks! I'll watch out for that!

I used to feed it to my birds. I got it because it doesn't contain ethoxyquin, but it does contain BHA or BHT (I forget which). My birds loved it too, but I've switched seeds so I don't feed it anymore.

well i fill one seed pot up with that and the other with trill and he eats from both.

 

i was only curious as i read in another post about the dangers of colourings in bird food and i panicked.

I got some of this Budge and Tobi adores it, does Gooby like it?

 

I also bought the tiel version but they arent as taken.

It should be okay in small doses, as a sort of treat.

 

I sometimes use one of the Vitakraft products which has very scary colours, it also has aniseed which makes my bird go barmy when he eats them :sport: