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My livefood arrived recently, frozen pinkies aka maggots. I have quite a few birds who need livefood, at least 46 finches, does anyone know how often the livefood should be fed, should it be daily, or only a few times a week, and in general how much livefood for each bird?

The only fids I have that "need" livefood are my shaftails. I usually give them about 30 a day, but I also only start when I know that babies are to hatch any day now. I must also say that there food is now no longer "live" when I give it to them. I put the mealies in the freezer for at least an hour before feeding, otherwise I find beatles crawling around the house a few weeks later. I just happen to have "flingers"

I have raised shaftails with and without live food. I prefer not to feed live if they take the dried egg food mix or boiled egg.

My fosters raised Shaftails w/o any live food.

What kind of finches do you have finchbob?

As far as I know, we don't have frozen pinkies available in the U.S., probably someone from the U.K. will be able to help you more on that.

I give mine mini mealworms daily. I don't see what should be wrong about that.... And it's almost exclusively the Cordon Bleus that eat them.

I give all my flights mealworms twice a day and I think all mine eat them. I use a product called miracle meal dry and mix mashed hard boiled eggs and sprouts every am thats where I put the mealworms seems to cause them to eat more of the egg food but some just eat the mealies