All pellets have corn 1st ingredient, isn't too much corn bad?

[SierraCaique]

Just as the title says.

Some more detail:
I read somewhere that corn is too starchy for birds to have every day, yet every single brand of pellets I see in the store have corn as the first ingredient. What's up with that?

My Caique has been having a lot of health problems lately (I wish I could say specifically what's wrong, right now we are thinking liver problems, the vet is not totally sure yet, we have another appointment coming up) and in the meantime I am trying to be very health-conscious for her. Putting that aside, in general is this high corn content something I should be worried about? Can anybody point me to a pellet without corn?

 

[JosienBB]

Where are you located? In the USA?

Tropican Alternative Formula has no corn or soy:
80555 - Tropican Alternative Formula for Parrots - 1.8 kg (4 lb)

My Safe Bird Store sells it in the USA, I believe.

 

[SierraCaique]

Yes, I'm in the USA. Thank you! I will probably try to hunt down a bag of that!

 

[Lady Jane]

I feed goldenfeast Goldn'obles pellets. First three ingredients (all organic)

Quinoa, soybean and almonds. Next on the list brown rice, Apple's, cranberries .......

It is the most nutritious ingredients I have ever seen in any bird food.

 

[Laylatoo]

Tops pellets are my fave because of the ingredients and they just happen to be what Layla loves too.

 

[Mizzely]

TOPS has no corn but it also isn't really a pellet. It has no vitamin D3 which is the main reason I feed pellets. They are also not backed by any vet or studies.

I personally am not concerned about corn in my pellets. It's not the same thing as dogs and cats - birds tend to do well on grains. Corn free pellets that are "complete" I know of are:

Caitec Oven Fresh Bited
Goldenfeast Gold'n Obles
Hari Alternative

 

[Laylatoo]

I should add that although TOPs is Laylas favorite she also gets Harrison's fine mixed with her chop, zupreem natural with the tops and I have Hari Alternative, roudybush, caitec, and Harrison's pepper also. The only two I know she really eats are Zupreem natural and Tops though. I try all of them hoping she will take to something other than The Zupreem because I'd like to use TOPs and something other than Zupreem.