Roudybush Daily Maintenance Bird Food, Medium, 44-Ounce

I am allergic to a lot of grass pollens, and real grain or seed-based diets set off my allergies (its not the feathers, its the pollen and dust from the feed!). This pelleted food impressed me as being healthier for both me, and my birds.Parrots really should not be eating a lot of seeds, or the mainly seed-based diets, because that is not their natural diet and some of them eat too much of it (too high in starch) and become malnourished. Actually, they like to crack the shells of seeds and that is probably why some parrots go crazy for seed-based bird foods - and become unhealthy. Sort of like humans and buttered popcorn, potato chips and dips. :)This is a high quality pelleted parrot food, and they eat almost every bit (some dust or bits spilled outside the cage are lost, but nothing like all the shells on the floor, or the claw-fulls of fancy colored pellets that one of my birds likes to throw - like a little baseball pitcher).If I don't have time to give them fresh or cooked treats, they can thrive on this pelleted food alone and never tire of it.So it is clean, easy to feed, approved by all my birds, and is reasonably priced - -no more than some of the other brands. Their feathers shine and have wonderful color after a few months on this feed.I like it that Tom Roudybush did his graduate studies at UC Davis at the famous animal nutrition department, and then set out to produce one of the most wholesome but reasonably-priced commercial bird foods. It still outperforms the other pellets, even if it doesn't look like eye-candy in the bowl. It is minimally processed, wholesome, and apparently tasty to parrots.The medium sized pellets are meant for my amazon and pionus parrots, but sometimes they like the small or mini which are more "seed sized" and sometimes even the smaller birds enjoy gnawing on the larger sizes. It is funny to see a small bird clutching a chunk of large pellet in one foot and gnawing at it.BTW, if your bird is not used to pelleted food, and you want to get it to eat a new food, introduce very gradually. Also, empty the dish every day -- you don't want to find that the dish was full of shells of other seeds plus pellets, and your bird is going hungry because it refuses the strange new pellet. You might clean the dish in the morning and put just a few pellets in as a treat in the morning - -some birds pick them up as toys. Later in the day, add a day's worth of their old food on top of the pellets -- if any are left. For some birds, you might want to gradually increase pellets (only after signs that the bird does pick up and nibble at pellets) very very slowly, over a month or so, while decreasing the other foods.You might smear a tiny bit of peanut butter on a medium or large pellet and offer it as a "toy" (sneaky, but effective, if your bird likes peanut butter, as most parrots do). When your parrot clearly sees this as a special treat, you can then switch to this as its new food more quickly.My birds were raised with all sorts of foods, so are not picky, but given a choice, now will pick out the Roudybush pellets and eat them first! Fun to watch them hurrying to the food bowl and lingering over a size that fits nicely in their claw when they want to pick something up to eat as "hand food." :)I have not been able to buy Roudybush locally,and just bought a small bag to tide us over until next week when I will order a 10 lb bag.

Made in USA, VERY HAPPY WITH RESULTS, my Cockatoo has been very healthy and happy on Roudybush for over ten years. Great product

Ok bird owners are picky! I mean like REALLY picky about diet and toy safety. We check ingredients and wanna know how a product is made. Because of this there’s only 4 brands most bird owners will even use: Roudybush, Harrison’s, Golden Obles (all organic), & some use Zupream (although we don’t like the color additives so choose not to use this, plus the brand seems to have a lot of recalls).For us this is a great product for the price. Complete nutrition (we also feed homemade veggie/fruit/grain mash & chip along with their pellets, & most bird owners who know what they’re doing do this too!)I like the size of these for medium bird’s but we often break them up into 2-3 pieces per pellet but it’s fairly easy to do. The smaller size of this pellet is better suited for budgies and cockatiels as medium conures will just toss those out of bowls.We also use these pellets in our recipes sometimes too when we make mashes or need to add supplements.I like the ingredients list and think this is an ethical company who knows what they’re doing. Wish pet stores carried it more often. It’s our go to brand that’s affordable.Note: *Sometimes amazon sends us the wrong size pellets though which has happened and they need to look out for. But they usually fix the problem when we contact them which is great and why we use amazon so much.If you have picky birds, try this one.Tips: for weaning or picky birds you can try to wet them or soak them in a juice or water.You can easily crush them to add to mash or chop recipes you make.Use them for foraging toys by adding a few nuts & seeds & these pellets, to give them a variety of healthy options. Use seeds sparingly. If you need a brand of pellets to wean a bird off seeds onto, I recommend this or zupreem as birds seem to take to these 2 brands best. But I’d chose Roudybush just due to the ingredients list being better quality stuff and safer, & the company being one I can support and say good things about. U don’t often hear of an fda recall on this great brand! Try them!

My African Grey loves Roudybush. This is cheaper than getting it from a local pet store. I've been getting this for years for him. I always mix it with at least 1 other pelleted food, for some variety.

My 43 year old Double Yellow-head Amazon’s doctor recommended this, because my bird had fatty liver. I’m very careful what I feed her, because Amazon’s are prone to fatty liver disease. (I had been feeding her Zupreme Natural). After 3 months on Roudy Bush, her liver enzymes were all within normal range, again.I was afraid she wouldn’t eat it, because she can be picky and stubborn with new things, because she wasn’t introduced to them as a young bird, before I rescued her! But, it was a smooth transition! Highly recommend.

Three of my four parrots have displayed very hormonal behaviors on other pellets and have had to be put on Roudybush instead. It's got much lower levels of metabolizable energy than some other pellets, which helps to drastically reduce hormone levels in parrots. The cost means any waste is less of an issue, but the pellets don't produce as much waste as other brands so it's a win win!