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freeze dried tropical fish bloodworms for finches

Post by san diego n8 » Fri Oct 04, 2013 5:41 pm

I just bought some bloodworms at the petsmart for my fish but it dawned on me that these birds should probably like bugs as well so next thing i did was drop a few small dried bloodworms in the cage a few moments later they were practically fighting over it . i want some feedback wether it is a good idea to feed the finches dried bloodworms in their diet.

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Re: freeze dried tropical fish bloodworms for finches

Post by finchmix22 » Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:06 pm

If you do a search on the FF for Freeze Dried Bloodworms, you'll find many posts about people offering these regularly to their finches. Mine all love them, especially during breeding season.
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Post by chirpy » Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:30 pm

I've wondere this too and glad you asked ;)
Will be picking up a little bottle of it the next time I'm there :)
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Re: freeze dried tropical fish bloodworms for finches

Post by san diego n8 » Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:51 pm

thanks for response more replies are encourged

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Post by wellingtoncdm » Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:17 pm

Some people have severe allergic relations to freeze dried bloodworms.
You can also consider mealworms or the easiest is serving hard boiled egg crushed up. My birds love egg.

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Re: freeze dried tropical fish bloodworms for finches

Post by Sunbay » Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:47 am

I started adding the freeze-dried blood worms to the dish of daily live mealworms. It took a while, but now they eat the mealworms first, then gobble up the bloodworms.

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Re: freeze dried tropical fish bloodworms for finches

Post by George » Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:50 pm

I get my FD Blood Worms from here:http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c7/Fre ... s-c38.html

Buy a pound and it will last quite a while...best value. My finches love them.

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Re: freeze dried tropical fish bloodworms for finches

Post by Sally » Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:22 am

Most of my birds (waxbills) love the freeze-dried bloodworms, which are very high in protein, but there is always the exception. I have a few pairs that won't touch their eggfood if f/d bloodworms are added. I just have to keep note of which ones are picky.
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