FARMA Parrot Food - 15kg

The FARMA Parrot Food is a twenty-two ingredient staple mix for medium and large parrots — seeds and nuts through the base, with dried fruit and vegetable flakes blended in.

Key Features

• FARMA describes it as a mix of 22 selected ingredients, enriched with carrot and spinach flakes, banana chips, figs and raisins
• Corn, sunflower in three grades, safflower, wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, carob, peanuts and peanut kernels form the base
• FARMA declares 17.4% crude protein, 20% crude fat and 7% crude fibre
• FARMA's feeding guide is 100–150 g per bird per day
• 15 kg sack — breeder and multi-bird quantity
• Made in Greece by Farma Friends, a pet-food maker near Thessaloniki that has been blending seed since 1997

Feeding

• 100–150 g per bird per day, measured. A parrot left with a full bowl eats sunflower and leaves everything else
• Fresh vegetables daily alongside, plus a cuttlebone or mineral block
• Wash the bowl daily. Fruit pieces and damp seed spoil quickly in heat

Good To Know

• At 20% fat this is a rich mix. Seed-and-nut diets are the main cause of obesity, fatty liver disease and vitamin A deficiency in pet parrots, and many avian vets recommend a formulated pellet as the base of the diet with seed as part of it rather than all of it
• Selective feeding is the practical problem, and measured portions are the practical answer
• Avocado, chocolate, caffeine, alcohol and onion are toxic to parrots
• Nuts and sunflower go rancid and dried fruit attracts moth. Keep the sack sealed and cool
• Birds hide illness until very late. One sitting fluffed up on the floor of the cage is an emergency, not an off day