Mike Fidler's Soft Food

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Below is a testimonial from Dr. Gary Fitt, President of the National Finch and Softbill Association, Australia on his use of Mike Fidler's Complete Soft Food. You may find his methods helpful in planning your own nutritional program:

"There is little doubt that the last 10 years has seen a tremendous improvement in the capacity of aviculturists to provide balanced nutrition for our seed eating birds, particularly finches. This is a result of improved understanding of nutritional requirements and of the availability of new products, one of which is Mike Fidler's Complete Soft Food. I have been using this product as a component of my softfood mix for the last two years and have found the results to be impressive. The powdered product is convenient to blend into my mix, and since it contains a full compliment of amino acids, vitamins and minerals it helps greatly in ensuring that all my birds can select the nutrients they require at any time through the breeding cycle.

In my case, Mike Fidler's Complete Soft Food comprises about 30% of the softfood mix that I make up and freeze. When this is then mixed with half-ripe millets and a tonic seed mix, the Mike Fidler product is about 10% of the total volume of softfood that I feed out everyday. It is always difficult to quantify the benefit of different foods for finches because few of us have the time to conduct a controlled experiment with alternative foods in order to measure the differences. Nonetheless, I am certain that my finches now get the best possible nutritional mix and breeding results have been excellent. My birds also come through their moult with no difficulties and come into brilliant feather. I certainly intend to continue with the Complete Soft Food as part of the nutritional program for my collection."

Dr. Gary Fitt
President
National Finch and Softbill Association, Australia