tubifex worms

canucky2 · Post by **canucky2** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:14 pm

Anyone feed these? Some I know gave them to their gouldians and they love them. Full of protein. I gave them to my birds and they gobble them down.

Are they ok to feed?

franny · Post by **franny** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:25 pm

I haven't fed the tubifex worms, but I do feed dried bloodworms to my GBs. They are both really high in protein (about 51%). The bloodworms come loose in the jar, so are easy to pick out a few and scatter in the treat dish. Mine love them.

The tubifex usually come in those compacted cubes, for feeding fish. And when you try to break them apart they are almost like dust. Would you mix them with eggfood? I wouldn't have thought the finches would find them appealing because of this. I'm only guessing, but I wouldn't think that it would hurt to feed them some though, as part of a "complete nutritional diet" as the commercials say.