Here we are folks, almost into December 2003 and we figure it's high time Jo gave you an update on our eating habits. As with anything, the more you read, learn, study and observe, your routine always has room for improvements. As has ours here at Tiny Rascals Aviary.
No more does Jo try and force us linnies to eat our pellets. If we eat them fine, if not, Jo does not worry. We get all our supplements and vitamins, are in perfect feather and have such charming personalities and dispositions, Jo's convinced we are A1 little gems.
Our diet consists of a good seed mixture which Jo adds Tropimix and some hemp too. We get our soaked seed daily as well as all our supplements on our softfoods. For supplements we get Daily Essentials 3 on our softfood daily, we get Bio Plus weekly. We get Flourish weekly. If we are molting we get stuff called Feather Up daily instead of our vitamins. We get Calciboost once a week (unless we are nesting, then we get it five days a week). We now get a new eggfood called Feast, which is just OH SO GOOD. When we go to nest we get Proboost Supermax and Potent Brew daily. To top it all off, the babies get stuff called Formula Plus in their formula as well as they get the Potent Brew stuff. Jo has seen such a vast improvement in our breeding habits, no more soft shelled eggs, we feed our babies much much better she says. Our molts take not even half the amount of time they used to and our feathering is beautiful. Oh ya, and YES we still get all our treat foods as well! Jo's always dehydrating fruits, then she breaks them up and adds to our seed mix.
Our babies are growing up and weaning, in Jo's mind, far healthier. We linnies love our veggies and softfoods so it is not a problem for us to get our supplements at all!
If you wish to continue with the supplements Jo is now the distributor for Canada for these products and will be more than happy to supply you. Soaked seed is also not a problem to supply. Healthy Bird also has loads of mashes which we like. Feel free to visit the Healthy Bird website at www.healthybird.net to learn more about these products. Jo will be doing a major overhaul on that site very soon to provide much more information for you.