LAFEBER'S Premium Daily Diet Pellets Pet Bird Food, Made with Non-GMO and Human-Grade Ingredients, for Parakeets (Budgies), 5 lb

Just received my parakeets nutritional pellet. The local pet store went out of business and I have been struggling to find her Lafeber's pellet. I was super excited to find it on Amazon so I brought the 5lbs bucket. If your pets food works nutritionally and keeps them healthy you'll search until you find it. Thank you to Amazon for selling it and Lafeber's for making a high quality nutritional pellet!

I guess they are ok, I grind with a rolling pin, kinda big and hard.I can break with my fingers and crush with the rolling pin. I also use Harrisons parakeet pellets, which are much smaller. I also use Dr Harveys seed mix but wanted to have another brand to give them a bit of variety, so we will see, my guys are picky, eat their veggies but refuse fruits. They seem to be eating this brand so I may continue along with Harrisons pellets.

I waste a lot of money for a pellet for find my both bird eat it well.I finally found !!! I'm so glad , they start to love this pellet .Green Cheeked Conure eat (hand feeding bought from breeder)first 1month he ate it but he more love to eat seed .i cut down each day andwhen he ate pellet always said "GOOD BOY " and very happy attitude to himafter he grab few pellet by his feet and move to beak same time look at me all time.after i said he good boy or something he look happy and wink back .if your bird do not eat pellet bird find one master from family .they trust most of time , that person train then very fast to learn .if no trust between bird hard to change to seed to pellet , becauseparakeet was too old to train because he do not listen to what human saidhe just trust my GCC only. if he eat parakeet scary cat but start to eat same thing.GCC75~80% pellet a day (lafeber's)20~25% veggies& fruits, safflower seed ,millet as a treat .parakeet (still train to eat pellet)20%~30% pellet and veggies& fruits (lafeber's)80%~70% diet kaytee's seedPARAKEET(bought at pet store not hand feeding . he still land on me but still scared human's hand )First time did not touch pellet at all , but i beat a pellet and make like almost powder,My GCC start little bit eat 2month ago it because i show parakeet that's food.your best friend eat it . they fly at house few hours a day ,i only give them pellet out side and let parakeet try to eat same pellet as my green cheek dose .My birds tried in since may 2012 1 GCC and 1 parakeet both male )(after fist check up at vet i found out i have to check poop color is healthy i studied i prefer Never give again colorful pellet)Harrison's super fine did not eat much but one parrot eat it .Zpreem's pellet natural color (never ate) fruit one just grab bananas one and just bite little bit and throw bottom of cage.kaytee's pellet rainbow never eat it . natural color never eat it .

I know this to be great food for birds. If your bird is a seed-a-Holic like my bird who was eating seed in the store when I got him, it's not an easy switch. I've tried going cold turkey offering nothing but the Lafeber's and I've tried mixing. He won't eat it. I suppose it's like taking a kid who has been allowed to eat sweetened cereal their whole life and turn giving them unsweetened oats. Healthy, but not an easy switch to an already ruined pallet. Next bird I get will be hand fed nutritious food from birth and never on seed.

I almost returned these pellets because it seemed like my budgie couldn’t bite into them. I started wondering if I could wet them, so I went to lafaber.com/pellets like it states on the back of the bag and checked out ways to introduce the new food to your parakeet. At the bottom it mentioned moistening the pellets, but warned to clean the dish out every few hours because of bacteria. I tried just that, and my young budgie chowed down. What a difference it has made! She was previously getting tired from a few short flights or walks around the room, but now she loves being out and is almost hyperactive. She really seems like she has so much more energy. I bought these because she was only eating the seeds out of her other food (a mix of seeds and these biscuit things), and she only eats fresh veggies if I hand feed them to her. I like that I don’t have to take the time to crush these pellets up, as I’ve seen other reviewers mention, but I do have to pay more attention to making sure the pellets get cleaned out properly a couple times a day. If my budgie stays happy with these I’ll keep buying them for her.

They just won’t eat it. One of my lovebirds will sometimes, and the other one will throw it out of the bowl.I bought a grinder to make it into smaller bits and use as a topper. I know they get some of it because pellets change your birds poop color to brown.