What's in your seed blend?

[Foosa101]

I am sending off 5 different premium finch seed blends to our seed testing facility to have them determine what hemp seed is being used and if I am missing anything. There's only one other seed that I am not sure of but they will be able to tell me. The other larger white seed we had discussed, Cindy, was White Millet and mine haven't seemed to care for it the same as the Dove Proso. The new millet crops will start being cleaned and processed toward the middle of next month and there isn't any white millet available yet.

[cindy]

Nancy, I noticed the zebras and shaft tail like the white millet...the two they (all) down the most and finish is the Japanese and brown top...the lavendars, owls and green singers love this...today is cage cleaning day so I am getting a good glimpse of what is in the tray bottoms lots and lots of jm and btm for sure!!!! The owls ate some dove proso but the hands down winner so far...the jm and btm.

[Foosa101]

That's what I am seeing and I am really anxious to see what they think of the German Foxtail and the Red Millet. It should be here today and I am sending those sample out today.

[cindy]

Thank you again Nancy...my birds love being test subjects!!!!!

[managermania]

Are you able to special order certain seeds from any of the "big box" pet stores? I am looking for affordable red millet. Shipping raises the cost by almost a $1 per pound.

They have a nice basic seed mix with very little color available at Pet Supplies Plus for about $1.10 per pound, but I would like to add something to it. It only contains a small amount of red millet. It's mostly white millet and canary seed.

[Foosa101]

It would not come from a pet store but from the actual grower. The cost is $30.00 (this is our cost and I am not making any profit off of this btw). If you are not interested in this large of an amount, I will split it with you. Just let me know and it may take me a week or two, as I will have to bring this in from another warehouse and I would marry it with a larger order to save us on shipping. Let me know what you would like to do.

[Foosa101]

It would not come from a pet store but from the actual grower. The cost is $30.00 (this is our cost and I am not making any profit off of this btw). If you are not interested in this large of an amount, I will split it with you. Just let me know and it may take me a week or two, as I will have to bring this in from another warehouse and I would marry it with a larger order to save us on shipping. Let me know what you would like to do.

Guess it helps to include the amount. The $30.00 is for 50 lbs.

[managermania]

Nancy-
That amount would be great but what would the shipping be to Atlanta? Any idea?

[Foosa101]

Shipping for 50 lbs. To atl would
Be around $17.00 but Cindy and I are working
On a specific mix of seeds that would cut down on the cost of shipping. Basically, I'm thinking a mix of browntop, Japanese, dove (or white) millet plus red millet. I can pre-mix this and offer wholesale pricing (in addition to the fact that the sees is viable and tested for germination, purity, and weed seed, unlike store bought mixes) for a fraction of the cost. Again, and I cannot express this enough, I am not making a profit off this. I only ask,that in the future, you pay shipping and wholesale cost of the seed.

[Foosa101]

Cell cut me off again...I would like for additional breeders or hobbiest to take advantage of this so I can make specific mixes for all of us. I've been in this business, not with domestic birds/finches for quite sometime, but have not been an avian enthusiast until now. I understand that it may be hard to believe that someone would offer this w/out profit but...I am one of you and I know the market. I only have Gouldians and Societes at the moment but am determined to assist in making everyone happy. Unfortunately, I am not willing to ship outside of the US as there are additional
Andexpensice permits that are required. Should

[managermania]

Are you looking for more birds in the future?

[Foosa101]

Should you live outside of the US but have an address within I will gladly ship you samples. Exporting seed cost a lot of $$$ and
Would not work in comparison to shipping within. I hope everyone acknowledges that I am NOT trying to benefit from this post and will take advantage of this offer.

A finch loving friend...foosa101

[6finchfriends]

I checked your site out Nancy (where you work)but several 50# bags is too much for me to store in the freezer. I was hoping I could order 10 or 20# bags and mix it up myself. If you are offering to send out your finch mix to all us lucky FF members I would gladly buy a huge bag of your fresh seed mix & pay the shipping! If I could get some seed my finches would actually eat and love I'd be overjoyed! You know, you could start your own side business! people like me that only have Petco, PetSmart waste a lot of $$$ on seed not being eaten and I'm convinced it's not that good for them. Not like freshly harvested seed would be. And I could use it for chitted seed too. Oh, and we do have feed stores here but like you said, the bird seed they have is either for parrots, wild birds or they have the same food the major pet stores have. It's very generous of you Nancy! And if you wanted to make a profit it would be okay with me too. But it's once again, very unselfish not to. there really are the best people on this FF!!

[monotwine]

The proof of freshness! My birds will drop the store bought seeds they picked up the minute I put in fresh seed heads (home grown).

The Australians have farmers that produce milk-seed heads for them. FANTASTIC nutritional source for breeding. Half ripe crops in half the time.... could be a good business for an interested producer. They freeze excess and it lasts.

[Foosa101]

I checked your site out Nancy (where you work)but several 50# bags is too much for me to store in the freezer. I was hoping I could order 10 or 20# bags and mix it up myself. If you are offering to send out your finch mix to all us lucky FF members I would gladly buy a huge bag of your fresh seed mix & pay the shipping! If I could get some seed my finches would actually eat and love I'd be overjoyed! You know, you could start your own side business! people like me that only have Petco, PetSmart waste a lot of $$$ on seed not being eaten and I'm convinced it's not that good for them. Not like freshly harvested seed would be. And I could use it for chitted seed too. Oh, and we do have feed stores here but like you said, the bird seed they have is either for parrots, wild birds or they have the same food the major pet stores have. It's very generous of you Nancy! And if you wanted to make a profit it would be okay with me too. But it's once again, very unselfish not to. there really are the best people on this FF!!

You wouldn't have to store it in a freezer...just put it in the closest or garage. It doesn't need to be refrigerated. Just let me know what you all think and once I get everyone's opinions back then I can offer smaller quantities or custom blends. Cindy and I are still playing around with other seeds as well so we will let you know how are experiments go as well.