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All natural ingredients! Ever wonder why our foods are not colored?

We pride ourselves in providing your pet with healthy food that is
good for them, with ingredients their bodies require, not food that is appealing
to our human eyes. That is why we only use high quality ingredients and
never add food colorings.

8oz, 22oz, 44oz &      10 lbs Tub
Nibles, Crumble, Mini, Small, Medium & Large
Daily Maintenance:  Use this diet when switching your bird from its old diet to Roudybush. Continue to feed to adult birds that are not laying eggs or feeding chicks. Lories and lorikeets, which will accept this diet, will have drier droppings than they have on nectar. If you have a bird that is a chronic egg-layer or a bird with a tendency to develop hypocalcemia (like African Greys), mix 2/3 Maintenance with 1/3 High-Energy Breeder to supply more calcium and vitamin D₃. Do not give additional vitamin or mineral supplements. Fresh fruit and vegetable treats may be given as a minor part of the diet.

44oz
Nibles Pellet
Breeder:  This diet meets the nutritional needs of the growing chick. Feed it to overweight breeding birds that are feeding chicks. Mix 1/3 Breeder with 2/3 Low-Fat Maintenance for overweight birds that are chronic egg layers or overweight birds with a tendency to develop hypocalcemia (such as African Greys). The mixture provides the extra calcium and vitamin D₃ to support egg production or to meet the needs of birds that seem to need more calcium than other birds. Do not give additional vitamin or mineral supplements, such as cuttlebone, mineral block, or multivitamins. Fresh fruits and vegetables may be given as a minor part of the diet.

2 lbs
Powder
Formula 3:  Use as a handfeeding formula for all species of psittacines from day one to weaning. Also used for handfeeding Squabs older than 7-14 days (7 days for smaller species, up to 14 days for larger species). Do not give additional vitamin or mineral supplements.

These Questions & Answers are from RoudyBush website you will find more questions there.

Repackaging: A Bad Idea?

If you search the Internet you will upon occasion see among the legitimate sellers of Roudybush products a few companies that buy our products in large packages and repackage them into small packages. The main advantage to the consumer is that these packages may be a little cheaper than small packages filled by Roudybush. There are reasons why they might be cheaper and I would like to review some of these reasons here. Repackagers frequently have low overhead. Their facilities are commonly uninspected garages or other buildings connected to their aviaries or homes allowing food to be exposed to bird feces or other contaminants. Another “contaminant” commonly found in repackaged food is an insect infestation. Labels from repackagers are often simply pieces of paper that are stuffed into cheap zip lock polyethylene bags. Their labels often fail to include legally required information, such as their contact information and our “use by” date, which is our lot number. The polyethylene bags favored by many repackagers are fragile, pass air through the plastic easily and often have no seal except the zip lock, which anyone could open and close without your knowledge. At Roudybush we discourage the repackaging of our products. The seeming advantage of a reduced price is over shadowed by the risks and losses in the repackaging process. We encourage you to seek other ways to get our foods and protect yourselves and your birds from these risks.

Can I feed more than just Roudybush? (seeds, fruits, veggies, nuts, etc)

Birds eat to meet their energy requirements. It is safe to offer fresh fruits and vegetables as treats because they are low in energy, so your bird will continue to eat the pellets. Foods such as seeds and nuts are much higher in energy and can lower the bird’s consumption of pellets. Therefore, if you wish to provide treats to bond with your bird or as an environmental enrichment, it is better to offer foods like fresh fruit and vegetables and limit the amount of seeds and nuts.

When should I stop hand feeding and switch to pellets?

You should not stop hand feeding and switch to pellets. You should offer pellets long before your chick is ready to wean and allow the chick to become familiar with pellets and begin to eat them. Chicks will eat pellets long before they are ready to wean, but not enough to meet their needs. Eventually you will be able to reduce hand feeding and observe whether your bird maintains its body weight. If the bird looses weight, it is not ready to give up the hand feeding. If it maintains its weight, you can stop hand feeding. If your bird looses weight when you stop hand feeding, resume hand feeding for a few days or a week and try again. Normal birds will eventually maintain their body weights without hand feeding. If your bird does not wean in a reasonable amount of time see an avian veterinarian.

Roudybush food does not look interesting or fun; won’t my bird get bored

Pet birds are especially intelligent animals and it is true that they need environmental enrichment. However, the food you are providing your bird is meant for nutrition and we specifically do not add “interesting” things such as colors, because they can create other challenges for your bird. Further if the food is the only interesting thing in your bird’s cage it is most likely “bored” anyway. The best advice we can offer is to provide your bird with many different types of toys and switch them out frequently. You can even offer Roudybush pellets inside a puzzle toy if you want to simulate your bird’s natural forging behaviors.