What do you feed your finches?

EmilyHurd · Post by **EmilyHurd** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:17 am

What does your finches main diet consist of?

dinosaur party · Post by **dinosaur party** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:56 pm

Pellets, seeds and millet. Also, I like to give them egg food a few times a week. Oh and they get vitamins in their water. I'm so paranoid about my birds that it's a bit ridiculous

EmilyHurd · Post by **EmilyHurd** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:20 am

I do pellets, seed, millet, eggfood, cucumber, lettuce, carrots, miracle meal, powdered vitamins, beak appetite meals that you just add water to, egg biscuits, crushed egg shell, a mineral block, and cuttlebone...

gouldy · Post by **gouldy** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:26 pm

I feed mine with ABBA 1900,millet once a week,soaked ABBA seed once a week,egg food everyday,veggies or fruits twice a week,ABBA minerals,shaved cuttlebone(gouldians),herbs....

dinosaur party · Post by **dinosaur party** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:31 pm

I also give them fruits and veggies a few times a week, and I just attempted to give them some sprouted seed today... They don't take so well to new things though. I'm not even 100% certain that they've really eaten any of the fruits or veggies either... They may just be pecking at them and moving them around a bit; they're kinda sneaky that way

RH/WB · Post by **RH/WB** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:11 am

Canary seed with 18% protein mostly and what veggies they're willing to eat. Dry wheat bread, Celery greens are liked a lot but they dislike all citrus. I also gather wild seeds they love and they seem to dislike wild small sunflower seeds. Clover is also like a lot. I'm afraid to try poke berries which are a favorite of wild birds. Sounds like I'm feeding them seeds and garbage

EmilyHurd · Post by **EmilyHurd** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:52 am

It's funny how time has changed. I feed and take care of my finches very well now, but when I was a kid (12 years old), my mom bought me two zebra finches, and I only fed them seed which was changed maybe once per week. They lived for a long time on just a cheap store bought seed and even raised a couple clutches.

I feel bad when i think back on them... but try to make up for it with my finches now that I know a lot more about them.

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:02 am

hi
i just feed them the same as i have always done this firm has been going since the 1800s and is 2 miles away from me

it has everything that i want for my birds in it and i also get my canary seed from here

http://www.cranswickpetproducts.co.uk/p ... title.html

if you click on the PDF links you will see what goes into the bags for different birds

ken

Post by **Sally** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:48 am

Hey, Emily, I used to buy Hartz Mountain seed mix at the dime store for my parakeet.

Now my finches get pellets, seeds for treats, spray millet for treats, egg bread and egg food, greens and veggies, some fruit. Some of mine will eat orange, some will eat apple. They all love broccoli and cucumber, but not all like carrot. I haven't been doing the sprouted seed so much lately, seemed like it was going off too often. Once winter is here, they go crazy for chickweed. Oh, I forgot the mealworms, too, for the waxbills.

kiwi & mango · Post by **kiwi & mango** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:29 am

I feed my two gouldians seed mixed with egg food and vitamins. I just picked up come oyster and charcoal gravel mix that I also add to their seeds. And a cuttle bone as well.

Oh I bought some millet since I had never before and the male was soooo happy that he had it all over his face ....it was funny to watch.

Love Of Finches · Post by **Love Of Finches** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:15 pm

I give Pellets, Millet, carrots and lettuce.

blue28570 · Post by **blue28570** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:55 am

I feed my 2 boys a mix of seed and millet. But I also have a cuttlebone and oyster shell mix. But i have fed them some eggfood and broccoli. Found they do not seem to care for carrots. They like apples too.

Boothcreek · Post by **Boothcreek** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:58 am

I feed Seeds, eggsfood, Millet and Pellets, they don't eat the pellets tho since I can only get the ones for small parrots(and none of my lovebirds, tiels and bourkes eat them either, but at least I try).
I Mix all my seeds(I get like 6 bags from different brands with and without added vitamins and minerals and dried fruit etc), eggfood, and pellets together in 1 big pot so every cage gets the same thing.
They have a cuttle bone but I have never seen them use it, and they get vitamins in their water every second change(I change about once a week, they have a huge waterbottle).
They wont touch any fruit and veggies.

hilljack13 · Post by **hilljack13** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:27 pm

Mine get a wild finch mix, cuttlebone, hardboild eggs, and greens. So forgive me when I ask, but what pellet does a finch eat? This is new to me..

EmilyHurd · Post by **EmilyHurd** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:51 am

There are a couple brands of pellets for finches. These are the two I use:

- you get these normally in the crumbles.

You can also use these:

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