Pellets: Zupreem versus NutriBird?

[HungryBird]

HERES THE ingrdient list for nutribird i just thought it might be usefull

Ingredients
Cereals, seeds (min 10% groundnut kernels), fruit (min 5% fresh fruit), vegetable protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, sugars, minerals, L-Lysine, methionin, Extr.Yucca schidigera, fructo-oligosaccarides, vitamins, trace elements.
Analysis
Protein 15%
Oil 16%
Fibre 3.5%
Ash 4.5%
Calcium 0.9%
Phosphorous 0.6%
Copper 14mg/kg.

not sure about this dibate about ingreadents but wanted to help.

Ingredient lists like this one drive me crazy. They are so incredibly vague and somehow it is permitted. What exact type of seeds? What type of vitamins? Why include sugars at all? What type of vegetable protein extracts? I really don't understand why these ingredient lists are even allowed. I think companies should be required to post exactly what ingredients they use.

[rebeccaturpeinen]

HERES THE ingrdient list for nutribird i just thought it might be usefull

Ingredients
Cereals, seeds (min 10% groundnut kernels), fruit (min 5% fresh fruit), vegetable protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, sugars, minerals, L-Lysine, methionin, Extr.Yucca schidigera, fructo-oligosaccarides, vitamins, trace elements.
Analysis
Protein 15%
Oil 16%
Fibre 3.5%
Ash 4.5%
Calcium 0.9%
Phosphorous 0.6%
Copper 14mg/kg.

not sure about this dibate about ingreadents but wanted to help.

Ingredient lists like this one drive me crazy. They are so incredibly vague and somehow it is permitted. What exact type of seeds? What type of vitamins? Why include sugars at all? What type of vegetable protein extracts? I really don't understand why these ingredient lists are even allowed. I think companies should be required to post exactly what ingredients they use.

very treu!! it shouldnt be so confusing!!! it makes it look like they have something to hide...

[Cage Cleaner]

"trace elements" ...of cyanide?

[spiral]

Hi guys

i think i have found some inorganic pellets which are g.m.o ingreadent free, someone asked about that somewhere in this thread they are called wagners parrot pellets they are maent to have human grade ingreadents no color salt or g,m,o i have not tried them myself though but thought the ingreadents looked ok if your interested are/ were on the zooplus website

hope thats useful for someone.

[HungryBird]

Here are the ingredients by the way. Thanks so much for pointing this brand out, I'd never heard of it before. Adding it to the list now!

Maize, soya, rice, oats, peanuts, peas, wheat, buckwheat, wheat bran, alfalfa, oat bran, dried yeast, maize germs, vitamin and mineral pre-mix, calcium carbonate, lysine, methionine, polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 and omega-6), fructo-oligosaccharides, yucca extract, chlorella green algae.

[spiral]

Hey thats exellent that i was of help, i am pleased now my research seems useful so all in all a good day
i tried to go a really big pet shop in the nearest city from me but it was shut so i could not check it out i research parrot stuff just for the hell of it, even for species i would not try to keep my self because its fun!

Maybe i should be a librarian? lol. I think id like to be a zooologist/artist librarian as a fantasy carreer!

[Zooey]

Not sure about that. I only buy the small bags. I think Harrison's and Totally Organic Pellets are the best pellets currently available and I rotate between the two.

Is Roudybush as good as those? It's the only one I can get my budgies to eat.

[GlassOnion]

It's not as good but still one of the best pellets on the market. Continue feeding Roudybush, it's totally healthy.

[allirho]

I would order pellets online, it's actually really affordable even in Canada, trust me. Check out, http://www.mysafebirdstore.com

I'm transitioning my birds to Totally Organics Pellets. I think these are the best you can get.

GlassOnion,
Do you feed Spice pellets as well or just the Apple?
And if so, have you started the budgie on the Totally Organics?
I'm just curious as to how the little bird took them, I was going to buy a bag of Harrison's this weekend for my budgie but my vet's office was out of the super fine and if Totally Organics is a better pellet than I think i'd rather get those instead.

[GlassOnion]

TOPS is a bit better in its ingredients but Harrison's is more scientifically blended. I mix a bit of TOPS so Spice eats them but she loved Harrison's.