LostStoner
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- 11/30/20
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I got my baby Cinnamon Geen Cheek on Saturday, and she is such a pretty, tiny, and cuddly lil thing. I love her so much that I have this intense urge to do like a child does with a cat or dog and cuddle/squeeze the crap out of her. But instead I settle for holding and stroking her baby feathers that feel like fur because I know that would hurt her.
I also have a 1 year old Yellow Sided Green Cheek conure that I adopted from a lady last month, he (haven't gotten DNA results yet) was on Higgins Sunburst conure food, which I knew wasn't very healthy for him, as I could tell he was a little pudgy, but not to much. Either way since I knew a primary seed diet isn't very good for him, and I knew I was getting a baby in a month who would be on Zupreem fruit blend pellets, I switched him over to the same thing.
Since then I noticed that one of the top 5 ingredients was sugar or sucrose, which I would think isn't all that much more healthy for them than a seed diet. I'm also a watcher of the BirdTricks youtube channel and one of her recent videos was about food, and she said that if your feeding your bird pellets with soy, corn, sugar, and a few other things that they are not on a healthy diet, not to mention that these kind of pellets have a ton of added vitamins and stuff that your bird may not really need, and can cause problems with some birds.
Of course she then started pushing her own brand, which thanks but no thanks I have no interest in paying that super high price, which is when I found TOP's brand bird pellets which are virtually the exact same thing, but at a much, much, much more reasonable price, not to mention they offer sample packs where bird tricks smallest bag by itself is 4lbs, and I'd hate to pay that much for something they would refuse to eat.
So now I'm considering trying to switch them to TOP's brand pellets because they are organic, they only have ingredients which I can pronounce, and don't have sugar, fillers, corn, or soy in them.
But I'm well I'm not sure how to put it really, I'm kinda iffy maybe, or leary, or worried. While I know tops would be better for them, the boy is rather picky eater, and tends to be "afraid" of many types of bird treats which I have no clue why but that's a different topic.
Plus when I switched him to Zupreem fruit blend I did the tough love thing, and took out all of his old food at night when I put him to bed, and the next day only gave him the Zupreem, which he slowly took too, to my surprise.
But now the thought of doing it again, and also trying to do it to my 10 week old baby feels rather daunting.
So I guess I'm wondering what others think of the Zupreem (FB) vs TOP's, or TOP's vs Zupreem (FB), and what success they have had with switching to TOP's from Zupreem (FB).
Did your bird really love it?
Did they take right to it?
Did they take time to warm up to it?
Also do you think it's worth the benefit to switch to TOP's, or not?
I would appreciate any help you can provide a new bird dad.
Thanks!
I also have a 1 year old Yellow Sided Green Cheek conure that I adopted from a lady last month, he (haven't gotten DNA results yet) was on Higgins Sunburst conure food, which I knew wasn't very healthy for him, as I could tell he was a little pudgy, but not to much. Either way since I knew a primary seed diet isn't very good for him, and I knew I was getting a baby in a month who would be on Zupreem fruit blend pellets, I switched him over to the same thing.
Since then I noticed that one of the top 5 ingredients was sugar or sucrose, which I would think isn't all that much more healthy for them than a seed diet. I'm also a watcher of the BirdTricks youtube channel and one of her recent videos was about food, and she said that if your feeding your bird pellets with soy, corn, sugar, and a few other things that they are not on a healthy diet, not to mention that these kind of pellets have a ton of added vitamins and stuff that your bird may not really need, and can cause problems with some birds.
Of course she then started pushing her own brand, which thanks but no thanks I have no interest in paying that super high price, which is when I found TOP's brand bird pellets which are virtually the exact same thing, but at a much, much, much more reasonable price, not to mention they offer sample packs where bird tricks smallest bag by itself is 4lbs, and I'd hate to pay that much for something they would refuse to eat.
So now I'm considering trying to switch them to TOP's brand pellets because they are organic, they only have ingredients which I can pronounce, and don't have sugar, fillers, corn, or soy in them.
But I'm well I'm not sure how to put it really, I'm kinda iffy maybe, or leary, or worried. While I know tops would be better for them, the boy is rather picky eater, and tends to be "afraid" of many types of bird treats which I have no clue why but that's a different topic.
Plus when I switched him to Zupreem fruit blend I did the tough love thing, and took out all of his old food at night when I put him to bed, and the next day only gave him the Zupreem, which he slowly took too, to my surprise.
But now the thought of doing it again, and also trying to do it to my 10 week old baby feels rather daunting.
So I guess I'm wondering what others think of the Zupreem (FB) vs TOP's, or TOP's vs Zupreem (FB), and what success they have had with switching to TOP's from Zupreem (FB).
Did your bird really love it?
Did they take right to it?
Did they take time to warm up to it?
Also do you think it's worth the benefit to switch to TOP's, or not?
I would appreciate any help you can provide a new bird dad.
Thanks!