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Reddit mentions of Volkman Avian Science Lovebird & Conure Bird Seed 4 Lb
Sentiment score: 2
Reddit mentions: 2
We found 2 Reddit mentions of Volkman Avian Science Lovebird & Conure Bird Seed 4 Lb. Here are the top ones.
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- A nourishing daily diet made especially for Lovebirds and Conures
- The variety of delicious and healthy ingredients includes red and white millet, canary grass seed, safflower seed, sunflower chips, diced carrots, papaya and shredded coconut
- This special blend is naturally preserved with orange oil and has been cleaned to ensure that it’s dust-free
- Provides essential nutrients your bird needs to live a long, healthy life
- Each Avian Science Diet blend has added vitamins, minerals, and amino acids for your birds' health
Features:
Specs:
| Height | 8 Inches |
| Length | 9.5 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Size | 4 Pound (Pack of 1) |
| Weight | 4 Pounds |
| Width | 4.5 Inches |
Sure thing, absolutely--thanks for asking!
Getting your bird to switch to pellet is THE CLASSIC new parrot problem. The reason is pet stores and breeders feed seed diets to young birds. This serves two purposes: first seeds are cheap, second seeds add weight which is good for young birds in potentially stressful situations.
Here's a great article on switching your bird from an all-seed to a primarily pellet-based diet: http://www.parrot-and-conure-world.com/switching-birds-to-pellets.html
Seeds aren't bad as PART of your Conure's diet. I'm a big fan of Volman's seed products, one reason is that they package their seed in breed-specific mixtures.
Pellets are extremely important. They are specifically designed to give your Conure the nutrition a growing bird needs. Even offset with fresh fruit and vegetables a seed-based diet is not good for your bird's health and pellets are specifically formulated to include proteins and trace minerals that your bird is not going to find elsewhere.
My bird's cage has four feeding stations: Pellets, Water, Seed and I have this acrylic thing that holds up to four bowls for fresh foods. So you can provide a whole lot of variety in your bird's diet once you establish pellets as the base.
Additionally, you're going to want to give your bird small amounts of occasional good fats like coconut oil and red palm oil. This can be done by infusing it into your pellets. It's pretty easy to do, just gently warm some of the oil to liquid and drop in some pellets and shake them around until they soak up the oil. Store and feed.
You'll also want to be sure to provide either direct sunlight (not through a window) or a bird-specific full-spectrum lamp as this is how birds produce vitamin d and process calcium. Check on Amazon for "bird light full spectrum" for the light that best works with your cage setup--be very careful to get the "avian" bulbs and not the "reptile" bulbs, as some companies make products for both. The reptile lights are different and can harm your bird's eyes.
Another GREAT habit to get into is weighing your bird every day. A gram scale with a T-perch like this one is super easy to use and changes in a bird's weight are the best indicator of health. This is because birds are very good at hiding any illness so as not to be banished from the flock. To them, looking healthy is a matter of life and death. Having an understanding of your bird's current and usual weight is the quickest diagnostic tool available. Once grown your bird should weigh about the same within a +/- 5% window.
Ideally you'd be purchasing food that doesn't contain sunflower seeds at all. I've been buying this and mixing it with this and this. Gradually I've been including less seed in general and reserve it for treats. I've also taken to growing millet in my garden, so soon I'll have fresh millet to give my conure as well.