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Roudybush Medium size Maintenance pellets are recommended for:
Large Macaws,
Large Cockatoos,
Mini Macaws,
Small Cockatoos
& Similar Size Birds
The main ingredients in Roudybush Maintenance and Breeder diets are corn, wheat, peanut meal, and soy meal. To that we have added vitamin and mineral supplements, and an all natural preservative. The Rice Diet is composed of rice, rice bran, rice protein concentrate, vitamins and minerals. This may benefit birds that are allergic to food items other than rice. Food allergies can be displayed by itchy behavior such as feather plucking/ self-mutilating.
Roudybush Maintenance Diet, the most commonly fed Roudybush Diet, is designed to be fed to most healthy adult birds. It is a single formulation that comes in 6 different pellet sizes allowing you to feed any pellet size they prefer. Typically, the best way to choose a pellet size is use the size of your bird’s beak as a guideline, feeding larger pellets to birds with larger beaks. The diameter of the pellets are: Mini 3/32”, Small 5/32”, Medium ¼”, and Large is ½”.
Don’t add sugar to Roudybush diets because you will want to avoid the growth of yeast. Yeast, Candida albicans, is a common oral and gut infection in birds. Birds resist yeast infections by passing the yeast through the gut at a rate that keeps the level of yeast low. In the presence of sugar, however, yeast thrives and multiplies and can infect a bird eating a diet containing sugar. If yeast infections are common in your bird or if you are treating a yeast infection in your bird now, eliminate sugar from the bird’s diet if possible. This will reduce the rate of reproduction of the yeast leading to easier resistance to or elimination of infection in your bird.
Colors in feed can cause a number of problems because many birds will select specific colors out of the mix and avoid others leading to waste. The synthetic pigment used in many diets can stain the bird or furnishing in the area where the bird is kept. This has kept birds out of shows and led to expensive cleaning or dying of stained materials. These synthetic pigments also show up in your bird’s droppings and interfere with the use of droppings as a diagnostic tool by your veterinarian. At a critical time in your bird’s life this can result in a delay in diagnosis and treatment of a health issue.
Use this diet when switching your bird from its old diet to Roudybush. Continue to feed to adult birds that are not laying eggs or feeding chicks. Lories and lorikeets, which will accept this diet, will have drier droppings than they have on nectar. If you have a bird that is a chronic egg-layer or a bird with a tendency to develop hypocalcemia (like African Greys), mix 2/3 Maintenance with 1/3 High-Energy Breeder to supply more calcium and vitamin D3. Do not give additional vitamin or mineral supplements. Fresh fruit and vegetable treats may be given as a minor part of the diet.
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