Don't let people bully you into doing something you aren't comfortable with. You learn about your choices, consider your situation and your bird, and make your decision based on that.
So true.
Shame it has been the manufactures, Av vets with NO Study on Avian Nutrition, And a number of others.
Who have badgered, bullied, lied, you into feeding ground up much loaded with synthetic supplements.
There is actually No independent study showing that adding any pellet to a birds diet is anywhere as good as real foods.
I have and will keep repeating the very fact that unless you are feeding 80% more of any pellet as the diet.
YOU ARE WASTING your time.
When a person accuses me of lying, yet cannot produce any evidence to show that.
What does that make them?
Sure makes makes you feel better! Right?
Same as it is WELL KNOWN that most synthetic supplements do not work the same as natural ones.
Example: Yes I know a few of you do not care that most pellets contain nasty additives.
Lets take VitK. Menadione TOXIC.
There are so many natural foods you can feed that have K in them.
So why do you need a known BANNED substance in anything you feed your birds.
Yes there is clear evidence, that once pellets have been removed, a bird can in most cases recover.
Except the toxic over loads the likes of VitA.
This is just one of them that the body cannot excrete. And here is the key to the facts I keep trying educate about.
Some people are not willing to do there only research and study.
It reminds me of a person who once said "I will never trust food that has not been processed.
Sally would call this the IDIOT FACTOR.
You have no factual knowledge, but follow blindly into commercial processed so called foods.
The list just keeps getting longer.
"The conference program I wrote about previously, each of the veterinarians and manufacturer’s representatives made it very clear that their product was by far the best on the market even though the most pushed one at that conference is, in my opinion, the worst because it is full of synthetic chemical nutrition, artificial food color, Menadione, and other ingredients I wouldn't feed to my outdoor squirrels. There is always a bias to push a product when people manufacture, represent or sell a product."
"I have paid very close attention to the world of parrots for over 4 decades. I never heard about as many parrots dying of cancer as in the last two decades or so. Is it a coincidence that this started when pelleted diets became the only food recommended by companies and misinformed veterinarians? Does the increase in cancer have to do with the reliance on chemically laden pelleted diets like it does in dogs? One ingredient that is in almost all pelleted diets is Menadione (it has middle and last names like Menadione 'Bisulfate Complex” but it is the same horrible stuff if it starts with Menadione) other also called “A Source of Vitamin K Activity” by some companies. It is banned in human foods in the U.S. and pet foods in several countries in Europe because it is considered a carcinogen but it is in so many parrot pellets that it is disgusting to me. Of course the companies will tell you that there is so little of it that it isn't a problem, but then they want you to feed their product as a total diet every day for the rest of its life – which could be a lot shorter if you do."
