zupreem fruit blend vs pretty bird medium

[Conurebreeder]

My conures loved their zupreem fruit blend size medium but at $22 for 3.5 lbs, it was too expensive to feed my four green cheeks.
I purchased 20 lbs of pretty bird medium size pellets for about $50 and free shipping.
The pellets were similar in taste, look the same, and have a similar smell but less fruity. My conures instantly took to the new pellet food. The only major difference is the shapes are completely different and look like like cat food with letters and shapes.
one major pro is that when my conures dunk it in water, it doesnt dissolve into a soupy mess like zupreems did. when dropped in water, pretty bird pellets retain their shape and the color doesnt leak out into the water. so their water has been staying cleaner.

 

[Featheredsamurai]

personally I do not like pretty bird, I feel they have some very questionable ingredients. Unlike pretty bird zupreem is human grade. zupreem natural is a decent pellet.

Have you considered Totally Organics/TOPS? It's very affordible, and one of the best pellets available. $15.45 for 4 pounds, or $34.95 for 10 pounds, and 25 pounds for $74.95. it has AMAZING ingredients and is much healthier than both the pellets you asked about.

Here's TOP's ingredients
Ingredients: Rice, hulled millet, barley, alfalfa leaf, sunflower seed hulled, sesame seeds unhulled, quinoa whole, buckwheat hulled, dandelion leaf powder, carrot powder, spinach leaf powder, purple dulse, kelp, rose hips powder, rose hips crushed, orange peel powder, lemon peel powder, rosemary whole leaf, cayenne ground, crushed red chili peppers, nettle leaf.

 

[thekarens]

Not sure where you live, but the Zupreem I bought when I got my sennie wasn't even close to that much, but maybe you can't get it locally? Even my Petsmart carries it.

 

[Conurebreeder]

ive tried a lot of pellets and everybody turns their nose to it.
i went a full week with my conures refusing tops.

 

[handfedhandfuls]

Zupreem Natural is a much better pellet than either of the two you have used. Their fruit blend is full of dyes and the pretty bird uses palm oil... Which is destroying our rainforests (where our beloved birds come from!). They are cutting down the rainforest and replacing them with palm oil plantations, for our increasing demand! It's used in cosmetics, foods, etc.. Read your ingredients on human products too!
If your guys aren't taking to the not-so-fruity flavour of the natural blend, try adding fresh & dried fruits in with the pellets. If they are still picking through it and refusing the pellets, I would try making a bean & fruit mash and including the pellets in it, maybe that'll help get them on it!

 

[baron1282]

I use the Fruit Blend and my bird has been showing signs of great improvement. My bird is healthy and more active now than he was on the seeds I use to feed him.

I will say the fruit blend does change his poop color to a brownish reddish color. Thought it was internal bleeding at first or something was wrong. Turns out it was just the red pellets mixed with the natural blend.

 

[Featheredsamurai]

ive tried a lot of pellets and everybody turns their nose to it.
i went a full week with my conures refusing tops.

A week isn't long at all, I went six months with Rosie turning her noise up to a mixture of several pellets. She went from all sunflower seed staple, after removing the sunflower seeds she only picked out the safflowers. More than $200 worth of pellets were untouched by her. But I don't regret those wasted pellets at all, because in the end she began to eat them. Now Rosie is so healthy(she came to me terribly unhealthy mentally and physically). Once Rosie started to eat pellets, I then worked on getting her on a pellet I liked which was TOPS, but later I switched to Harrison's.

A week is nothing, if you like a certain pellet keep trying and in the end you will succeed.

 

[KeroRocks]

The Zupreem is super cheap if you buy it from Dr. Fosters and Smith online.
It's like $22 at Petco but only $10 or $11 from

Pet Supplies | Dog & Cat Supplies, Pet Meds | DrsFosterSmith.com Pet Products

 

[MonicaMc]

When I fed Zupreem, I'd buy a #20 bag for around $32....


And then Zupreem changed the size of their bag (smaller) without also lowering the price....


I switched to Roudybush. Currently, I feed Harrison's.



Supposedly the best thing about Pretty Bird pellets is that they contain Nucleotides... never fed the pellets myself.

 

[jenphilly]

Our Ivory is a super picky eater and won't eat any pellets. We are TOPs fans, everyone else in the house eats TOPs mixed into their blends. So for Ivory, I used a clean coffee grinder and made the pellets into a powder form, sprinkle them on everything One way or another!! Next round of birdie bread will be loaded with ground pellets. Kinda like hiding broccoli in brownies for kids, they can't argue about what they don't know they are eating!