switch food brand?

[Eurycerus]

So the sweet little bird i'm adopting is fed an extremely expensive specialty food. How do you switch them to something like zupreem?

[MikeLK]

ZuPreem is my favorite pellet food for my parrots. There is a conversion method to switch a birds diet to another food. They are noted on the bags of food. You basically start with 90/10 of the two foods. (90 old.) As time passes so does the conversion in favor of the new food until they are weened from the old and only accept the new. I had some birds that made it easy and took right to the new immediately. I have different parrot food descriptions including ZuPreem on my website and prices and get from there. Hope this helps some,
Mike

[Eurycerus]

Wonderful thank you so much! I'm definitely going to work on that first.

[terri]

Parrots stomachs are only so big.You should be feeding them a variety of things.Like seedmix,pellets,fruits vegs,bird bread,mash,eggs[lots of stuff,read up on it]So your expensive food [I think you mean pellets ] should last awhile.Im always trying new things so they dont get bored.

[Eurycerus]

I knew about fruits and veggies and maybe some healthy people food as well as about ten percent seed but not the other stuff. however I figured that the primary food was the pellet

[Grey_Moon]

I think personally, that's its a mistake to go backwards in quality.

I don't like zupreem as a brand and my grey experienced many problems on it---flaky beaks, flaky feet and very itchy. if you read it its low-fat and predominantly wheat, corn and soy with chemical additives---not good for parrots.
I'd also wager that the expensive stuff though isn't worth the money.

A quality homemade diet is my vote for both quality and money.

[ljeanne]

has anyone tried higgens intune natural? i gave some to my cag and you would think he had never eaten before. he seems to love it, of course he will proberably hate it next week..lol

[laducockatiel]

I'd suggest Harrison's or roudybush. Wouldn't suggest Zupreem, cos its full of artificial rubbish.

Also (as grey-moon and terri have said) feed him/her plenty of fruit, veg, mash and healthy human food.

[Eurycerus]

I had only ever heard the name "Zupreem" and saw it in the store the other day and I thought it was weird that some of the pellets were dyed!

Anyway I am continuing to feed her Harrison's and am integrating some fruits and vegetables every day. I need to steam some carrots because I think generally they are too hard.

[laducockatiel]

I had only ever heard the name "Zupreem" and saw it in the store the other day and I thought it was weird that some of the pellets were dyed!

Anyway I am continuing to feed her Harrison's and am integrating some fruits and vegetables every day. I need to steam some carrots because I think generally they are too hard.

Cool. My cockatiel prefers raw carrots rather than steamed, cos he likes crunchy food