RIO Eggfood For Budgies & Small Birds - 250 g

RIO Eggfood For Budgies & Small Birds - 250 g is a 250 g soft rearing and conditioning food from Rio made with whole egg, fed to budgies and small birds during breeding, moult and recovery.

Key Features

• Made with whole egg: Which is where the protein and the point of it come from.
• With honey, vitamins and minerals: Rio's own description of what is added to the egg base.
• For breeding, moult and recovery: The three times a bird needs more than its ordinary bowl of seed.
• With biotin and amino acids: Rio names these as the part aimed at feather condition.
• Two hundred and fifty grams: A single pack size on this listing.

When Eggfood Earns Its Place

• Three situations, and outside them most birds do not need it: a pair feeding chicks, a bird part-way through a heavy moult, and a bird picking up after illness.
• Growing feathers is expensive and feeding chicks is more so. Protein is the thing a seed diet is short of, and egg is an easy way to add it.
• This is a complementary food. It goes alongside the daily diet rather than replacing it.
• Outside those windows, a small amount once or twice a week is plenty. Daily eggfood on top of a full seed bowl is simply a fatter bird.

Serving It Without Making Anyone Ill

• Soft food spoils fast, and in this climate very fast. Mix only what will be eaten in a couple of hours, take out what is left, and wash the dish rather than topping it up.
• Mix it with a little water to a crumbly texture rather than a paste, unless the pack says otherwise.
• Use a shallow separate dish, not the seed bowl. Damp food in with dry seed spoils the seed too.
• In a Gulf summer, two hours is a sensible outside limit for anything damp in a cage. Morning feeding works better than evening for that reason.

Good To Know

• Canary and finch breeders tend to use eggfood far more than budgie keepers do, and for good reason - it is a long-standing part of raising small softbill-style chicks.
• If your birds are not breeding and not in moult, ask us before you buy. There are cheaper ways to improve a diet.
• Keep the pack sealed, dry and out of the sun, and look at it before you use it. Anything musty, caked or webbed goes in the bin.
• If a bird is actually unwell - quiet, fluffed up, sitting on the cage floor or not eating - that is a vet the same day. Birds hide illness until they cannot, and by the time it shows there is not much time.