by Pajarita » Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:18 am
No, I haven't used Featheriffic nor do I recommend anybody using it and I'll tell you why: it has iron [I don't like anything for birds that has iron added to it], it has a minimum of a whooping 22% fat! [nuff said!] - the good thing in it is the Omega 3 but you are already feeding flax seed for it. It's nothing but flax seeds, rice bran [and I can't think of a single good reason to feed it to a bird!] and sorghum [which is OK and I don't really have a problem with but I would choose a better source of protein], with man-made vitamins and minerals. A bird that has a good diet will not do well on this for the long term.
Birds on a good diet do not really need anything extra for growing feathers... I do give mine some extra protein in the form of hemp seeds, insect protein and more nuts but I also feed them very low protein during the winter so the increase in protein is more to reproduce the different seasons in terms of diet than anything else, and people who feed the same amount of protein all year round don't need to feed their birds extra UNLESS they have been feeding low protein all along.