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Have read somewhere that societies like parakeet mix ?? is this right and does anyone have any recommendations ??

thanks

I mix parakeet seed in with my finch seed. The societies eat a lot of millet seeds. When I feed at night their bowls have the most millet hulls in them (mostly white and red) compared to the other finches I have.

I haven't tried adding parakeet mix to my finch seed mix--it seems to me that many of the seeds in a parakeet mix are large for finches--but then, I have many of the smaller waxbills, and they seem to like the smaller seeds.

hi I feed sprouted aviary mix which has also sorts and the finches go mad for it. it has hulle oats , sunflower, safflower, rape, red & white millet, canary seeds. i sprout this over 4 days until roots start to show wash it and feed it out. chichs do really well on this.

I mix finch canary and parakeet seed and feed to all my finches. The javas eat 90% parakeet seed and the canaries eat 90% canary seed but all my finches like the mix.

the main differance between finch seed and parakeet, is that parakeet had sunflower and some serials, and also less smaller millets. as bengalese cannot eat larger sunflower seeds or most serials, i dont see the point realy.
i used to provied my mixed aviaries with black sunflower in the winter, but only the greenfinched and canaries would eat it, none of the bengalese or similar types would touch it

lonchura_boi wrote:i used to provied my mixed aviaries with black sunflower in the winter, but only the greenfinched and canaries would eat it, none of the bengalese or similar types would touch it

Try sprouting the sunflower seeds until they have a 0.7-1 cm cotyledon. My finches (everybody, including parrot finches, stars etc) eat this almost everyday. It's true that they don't eat all the seeds, just the cracked ones due to sprouting.

I was told that zebra and society finches like white millet. You can buy white millet seed from a feed store for like $17.50 for a 50 lb. bags. One local breeders is using that to mix with his birds. The birds eat more of the eat and less waste.

The last few weeks I have been using parakeet seed for the zebras and society and they seem like it.

Scott