First Ingredient to look for.

SO When I buy dog food I always look at the first 2 Ingredients to make up my mind as to what food is best. If the first one is whole Chicken or Whole lamb or whatever meat we are off to a good start as long as chicken meal is not the first Ingredients.

I am shopping for parrot food. I always look at the first Ingredient. I am seeing everyone uses corn as the number one. I do not like that because corn is always used as a cheap filler. Parrots are not eating corn in the wild.

SO what do you look for. Even Harrisons "life time" has Corn as the first one. I do not remember Corn being the first Ingredient in EVERYTHING a year ago. I remember seeing White Millet as the main ingredient a year ago. Harrisons high potency has Ground Hulled White Millet as the number one. what is better?

I think pellets are JUNK if the first 2 things are corn. I need to just make my own parrot food now I guess.

Fully agree!
That is why JoJo and I love TOPS.
https://topsparrotfood.com/ingredient-highlights/

Ingredients: Organic hulled millet, ecologically sustainable alfalfa, organic barley, ecologically sustainable rice, organic sunflower seed hulled, organic sesame seeds unhulled, organic quinoa whole, organic buckwheat hulled, organic dandelion leaf powder, organic carrot powder, organic spinach leaf powder, organic purple dulse, kelp, organic rose hips powder, organic rose hips crushed, organic orange peel powder, organic lemon peel powder, organic rosemary whole leaf, organic cayenne ground, organic crushed red chili peppers, organic nettle leaf.

I use goldenfeast goldn'obles I mix. First ingredient is quinoa, second is soybeans, third is almonds...list goes on. No corn whatsoever that I can find. Check out the label.

I have two concerns with soybeans, number one has to do with stimulating estrogen production, number two is if it is a GMO soybean, that is really nasty!

chris-md said:

I use goldenfeast goldn'obles I mix. First ingredient is quinoa, second is soybeans, third is almonds...list goes on. No corn whatsoever that I can find. Check out the label.

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Thanks I will try this it looks like a good option.

Flboy said:

I have two concerns with soybeans, number one has to do with stimulating estrogen production, number two is if it is a GMO soybean, that is really nasty!

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I looked up Goldenfeast Goldn'obles. It is not cheap but I only have one parrot so I will spend the extra $$ on my little brat.

Great for all exotic birds. Peanut and corn free. No GMO. Feed naturally as a complete food or blend with one of the many other Goldenfeast formulas. Mix with cashew, almond butter or organic peanut butter for a highly nutritious food for baby exotics. Each package is date coded for guaranteed freshness. Goldn’obles II is made by processing the following select ingredients: Quinoa, organic roasted Soy Beans, par boiled brown Rice and organic long grain brown Rice, raw Almonds, dehydrated and freeze dried vegetables composed of Carrots, sweet garden Peas, Parsley, Green Beans, Spinach, Red Garden Beets and Cabbage. Cranberries, shelled Walnuts, natural organic Agavi sweetener, organic Barley, organic Alfafa, freeze dried Banana powder, organic hulled proso Millet and white proso Millet, organic Flax seed, organic Spelt, organic Rye, Sesame seed, domestic grown Apples, dehydrated Honey, organic Chia seed, organic Kamut, organic Tricale, organic Amaranth, stabilized hulled Oats, Sunflower Kernels, organic Spinach, Fenugreek, freeze dried Raspberries, Hemp seed, organic Timothy, Ginger, Star Anise seed, Cinnamon, Fennel seed, dehydrated whole Eggs, Bee Pollen, Wheatberries, organic Echinacea powder, Cilantro, organic Red Clover Leaf powder and organic Spinach, dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried Lactobacillus casei fermentation product, dried Lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product, dried Lactobacillus fermentum fermentation product, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product and dried Bifidobacterium. Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein (min.) 17.5%; crude fat (min.) 9%; crude fiber (max.) 6%; moisture (max.) 3.5%; ash (max.) 3% Refrigerate after opening to retain freshness.

There are a lot of ingredients in there and noticed Bee Pollen which is not cheap on its own and also wheatberries, both are things I purchase separately. Unfortunately I cannot buy these pellets here in UK :-(

Check if you can freeze them for longer storage? Have you a birdy friend that you can share a pack with, split the cost? Soy beans and rice are the 2nd and 3rd on the list, mainly fillers IMO but still lots of good stuff in there, not sure why eggs are included?

Sorry to see you describe Sprinkles as a brat :-( Looks cheeky to me.

goldenfeast goldn'obles
My JoJo and wife's Bongo would not touch these, I thought they tasted good!
For sure, store them in the freezer! Mine went rancid in a very short time!
Unfortunately, even the wild birds wouldn't eat them!

Salty and I are going to try these Golden'obles. He has been raised on Roudybush Maintenance, but he does eat a lot of them, and we wind up throwing most of his daily amount away. If Salty will like these better, who cares if they are more $$, like everyone else, I want to give our parrot the best food possible ( but he has to actualy eat it - no sense buying $$ food if he wont eat it).

Flboy said:

goldenfeast goldn'obles
My JoJo and wife's Bongo would not touch these, I thought they tasted good!
For sure, store them in the freezer! Mine went rancid in a very short time!
Unfortunately, even the wild birds wouldn't eat them!

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I was reading they changed the formula and many birds are not liking it. I am going to give it a try and yes I will freeze what I do not need and keep the rest in the fridge. I can't wait to see what Sprinkles thinks of it.

I am happy to report Sprinkles loves his new food. I got him the Goldenfeast Goldn'obles II Medium. I mix the pellets with the Goldenfeast Central American Preservation Blend. He loves it. I am so happy.

As far as the best pellet, TOPs all the way. All my birds love it and it's by far the best quality. Organic, nothing artificial, good quality ingredients, it's really the best pellet out there.