F.M. Brown's Tropical Carnival, Gourmet Macaw Food Big Bites for Big Beaks - Seeds, Veggies, Fruits, and Nuts with Probiotics - 14 lb

This is by far the best parrot food/seed I have come across in the 23 years I've had an African Grey. Wow. This is a substantial food for parrots, and looks just like in the picture, if not better. Lots of huge quality interesting chunky pieces, mixed with some smaller, but everything they could want. I have a nut cracker I put by his cage to help my Grey with the gigantic nuts, just a little crack. I have never seen a parrot food with such quality ingredients, everything they have listed in the description is there. I ended up breaking up the bag into gallon storage bags, and as I emptied it, the entire bag was consistent with the variety of ingredients. There were no crumbs, so to speak. I highly recommend and will definitely be buying again. Oh and they are made in the USA.On a side note, I also recommend Nutriberries, but they are super expensive. My African Grey's favorite.April 14, 2018 Update:Okay, so from a human standpoint, I think this food rocks for parrots, it has such cool stuff in it. Unfortunately my silly spoiled African Grey is damn picky, and isn't as willing to try new things. It's been two weeks now, and he is picking through the quality ingredients trying to find his nuts. He doesn't seem to be truly eating everything. That upsets me, because I know there is good stuff in this. It may be I fed him the wrong things for too long, that he doesn't know a good thing when it is right in his face. He still prefers his Nutriberries, which are hard on the wallet.

My macaw loves this food he won't eat any of the other brands I tried. He is a very picky eater. I also like that I can find it cheaper here on Amazon than at Pet smart or Petco. My recent order of this product is the worst I just checked my order and I ordered this food on the 13th of April hoping it would be here by the 23rd, because I would have ran out of food by then it has not shipped out so I had to order a smaller bag until this one gets here as of the 21st it still has not shipped.

One of the better mixes I have found and a reasonable price. We used to own a parrot rescue and a lot of birds came in on CHEAP mix blends that mostly had small filler seeds and a lot of sunflower seeds. This blend is WAY healthier then most of the blends on the market. We MIX this with Zupreem slowly adding more zupreem over time until the parrots are on at least a 50/50 mix of the two. Our personal pets eat a 3/4 Zupreem and 1/4 F.M. Brown's Tropical Carnival as well as fresh fruits and veggies 3x's a week. We have 3 Blue and Golds and 2 Umbrella Cockatoo's. WIth this product all of the birds we have fed it to "throw out" very little and parrots can be picky. Every single blend on the market has something in it that someone is going to complain about. This one has the least amount of complaints for the large amount of variety that it offers your bird.If you are currently using a cheaper mix that is loaded with sunflower seeds and small filler seeds that your bird probably doesn't bother eating then please consider this: if you have less waste that your bird isn't eating then you'll probably be paying the same amount of $ for a healthier mix because your bird probably won't throw as much out. - Just a thought

It looks like it’s been sitting in a corner or container for a few months, the nuts are cracked up, but I need my seed so I’ll take it this time and look for someone else

Awesome food, hardly any waste. My macaws absolutely love it!This is an update: I was so happy with this food at first! Over the past few years though, I've noticed a major decline in the quality of the ingredients as well as the consistency from bag to bag. At first I thought they changed ingredients as different ones came in/went out of season, and that was great. As I started paying more attention, I've realized they are more and more cutting back on "the good stuff" and adding more crap!!! This last bag I received had TONS of some kind of dried fruit I've never seen! I think it might be slices of pear???? Either way, there's way too much of it and even my "Mikey" doesn't want anything to do with it! The bag before that was the first time I've seen dried corn and this last bag was full of it! More sunflower seeds, dried peas and peanuts and less tree nuts, different kinds of dried fruits, etc. I honestly kept track, and literally, just under half of this last bag was waste!!!!! It's a shame because this was a great food; now it's parrot junk food and waste. Oh, did I mention the consistent price increase over the years? No bueno!

I owned and operated pet stores, selling parrots for over twelve years. I purchased several brands of high quality parrot food but to satisfy our Macaws I would have to make my own blend, adding large nuts and dehydrated fruits and vegetables. I no longer have the stores but still own and care for parrots, including a fussy blue and gold macaw. F.M. Brown's Tropical Carnival Macaw Food is a fabulous blend of nuts with a good addition of dried fruits and a fair sampling of dried vegetables. I feed my birds fresh fruits and vegetables daily, so the addition of F.M. Brown's more than fill the nut requirement and my birds enjoy the crunchiness of the dried fruits and veggies. The large nuts eg walnuts, etc. are more then the smaller parrots, African grays, can handle, but they are easy to fish out and toss to the Macaws. My birds have gotten use to some of the seeds found in cheaper foods, eg. sunflower and safflower seeds, so I make a 50/50 blend of cheap parrot food with the F.M. Brown mix. Any seed not eaten is thrown out to the wild birds. Blending the seed in this way makes it affordable to give my birds this gourmet blend of fresh seeds and dried fruits and veggies.

If my girl bird doesn't like a certain food she will kick it out of her home. This one they both approve of. A happy beak is a quiet beak. LMAO

NEW MIX HAS BARELY ANY NUTS. It use to be full of nuts and seeds. Now it’s just 95% pellets full of artificial food dyes. Thought it was just one bag but now we have gotten 3 in row. Cheating out. Not paying $100 bucks for filler.