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Which do you think have better nutrition?

Here is a comparison chart that may help you:
http://www.artemisaviary.com/pellet.html

Most manufacturers will have nutritional information for each of their products on their website. Both of those are good companies. I don't feed pellets, so I'll let those who do give you their experience.

I dunno.
I feed Lafebers to my gouldians.
And Zupreem and Roudybush to my zebra and societies.

Are they in 2 different cages?
Why do u feed them differently?

personally, I think Lafeber's is better for nutrition. However, my birds definitely prefer the taste of the zupreem. I do feed the fruity zupreem, tho, not the plain, so that may be why. the lafeber's has better ingredients in my opinion - egg, molasses, canola oil. whereas the zupreem has sucrose, veggie oil, and artificial colors/flavors with ground fruit.

my birds get lafeber's everyday, zupreem is more of a treat, 3 or 4 times a week. they also get seed about 3-4 times a week, as well as fresh greens, fruits, bread, eggfood, I try to give one of those as a treat every day.

The company that runs the aviaries in nursing homes(My aviary came from a nursing home) is coming out Thursday.Will be interesting to see what they do and tell me.I plan on using them for a couple of months to see how they take care if things,watch and learn. Then I will be getting my own birds.(they take theirs back after a contract is done)
So far I plan on using pellets.

I agree that molasses is much more natural then sucrose.
The company uses seed

ac12 wrote:I dunno.
I feed Lafebers to my gouldians.
And Zupreem and Roudybush to my zebra and societies.

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Ah yes color
I first used Zupreem fruit flavored, but the poop was orange/red and stained everything that color. So I switched to Zupreem natural, until they discontinued it in the XS size for finches. So now I back to fruit flavored (like it or not).

The owner of a local bird shop gave me the advice of feeding the birds a mix of at least 2 different brands. That way if one is discontinued or not available, you can fall back on the other w/o retraining the birds for the new food.

Gouldians, societies and zebras are all in separate cages, so it is easy to feed each with specific food.

I don't remember why I started feeding the Gouldians Lafebers.

One thing that I observed is that birds will grind up the pellets as they eat and leave the powdered pellets in the food tray. The finer Lafebers is almost like powder so the gouldians are used to eating fine food. The zebras and societies will ignore the powdered pellets, unless there is nothing left to eat and they are HUNGRY.

I use all three...lafebers and roudybush m. I am picking up 50 lbs of roudybush tomorrow...Nibbles size. Lafebers finch is great for parents feeding young and weaning food...it contains egg.