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Do any of you put "insectivore foods" in your fresh egg food? Do you think it helps and/or necessary for breeding?
If so, which is the best insectivore food with the most actual bugs? Seems like most are just full of fillers.

Thanks!

managermania wrote:Do any of you put "insectivore foods" in your fresh egg food? Do you think it helps and/or necessary for breeding?
If so, which is the best insectivore food with the most actual bugs? Seems like most are just full of fillers.

Thanks!

I have yet to find an insectivore food that all my birds love and will eat. It kills me to spend a small fortune on something that is completely ignored! And you are right, so many of them have a lot of filler and not so much in the way of bugs.

The one food that most of my birds will eat is Hikari freeze-dried bloodworms, like you find in the fish department of a pet store. They are very lightweight and blow all over the cage, so I mix them into the eggfood a bit. The wild-caught Strawberries that I recently purchased are eating these bloodworms, along with my eggfood, except for one pair that won't touch either one.

I bought the Quicko Insectivore eggfood and only a few of my finches ate that one. I did not try mixing it with fresh eggfood, but my Stars and Spice finches ate that fairly well and ignored the fresh eggfood. My other finches were the opposite. They went for the fresh eggfood and freeze dried bloodworms as Sally mentioned. I also buy the Hikari brand.