commercial egg food ?

B CAMP · Post by **B CAMP** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:34 am

Want to try some egg food other than the homemade that I have been using it seem like there eating less and less. What kind are you using ?Are you serving it moisten or dry ? Thanks for any input

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:59 am

I use Orlux Tropical Egg Food (with insects). I always have a dish of it in the cages and I also mix some in to the eggfood / soak seed I make to dry up my mix. They like it.

dfcauley · Post by **dfcauley** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:05 am

I use Miracle Meal. My birds love it!!

B CAMP · Post by **B CAMP** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:34 am

Donna
I have used the miracle meal a few of them ate it do you mix anything with it ,do you feed dry or moist thanks

liz
The Orlux Tropical Egg Food (with insects) sounds good with mealworms might be better thanks

DVBourassa · Post by **DVBourassa** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:14 pm

I mix one scoop miracle meal per egg for my eggfood. Everyone seems to like it.

nixity · Post by **nixity** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:04 pm

I use the Orlux Gold Patee and also sometimes offer Miracle Meal.
The Orlux Patee has a good bit of moisture so you don't need to moisten it, and that makes it great if you want to add something like probiotics or supplements, because it sticks really well to it.

I also have the Orlux Insect Patee but my birds mostly just throw it around and I end up finding large dried insects all over my floor. Creeps me out..
My societies seem to dig it when they have babies, though :)

CandoAviary · Post by **CandoAviary** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:18 pm

Depending on what kind of birds.... I make 2 mixes...

For seed eaters ABBA nestling egg food, miracle meal, feast eggfood
with this I mix grated boiled egg, shell and all

Insect eaters ABBA, Miracle meal, feast insectivorus, bag O bugs,
with this I mix boiled egg I feed live mealworms also

dfcauley · Post by **dfcauley** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:54 pm

B CAMP wrote:Donna
I have used the miracle meal a few of them ate it do you mix anything with it ,do you feed dry or moist thanks

When I am making fresh egg food, I put miracle meal in with it, but I always keep the dry out for them and I do not wet it at all. They eat it dry

Nagdabit · Post by **Nagdabit** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:01 pm

We use the CeDe Eggsnack. Our guys gobble it up. Every new finch that we've brought in is usually eating their egg food within a couple of days.

http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/243643/product.web

Rory and Sherry

ac12 · Post by **ac12** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:20 am

I need to get some dry egg food.
When I give them the egg whites, it is too pasty, and they ignore it half the time. I don't have enough birds to mash the entire egg, so the early and late egg is whites only. Although guess I could mash the entire egg and just use what I need to use for the day.

Post by **Sally** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:41 am

Mash the whole egg, shell and all, and refrigerate what you don't use right away. It will keep for a couple of days.

ac12 · Post by **ac12** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:04 am

Couple of days !!!
With as little as they eat a whole egg would easily last more than a week.

I guess we will just have to make an egg sandwich with most of the egg

lovemyfinch · Post by **lovemyfinch** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:05 am

ac12 wrote:Couple of days !!!
With as little as they eat a whole egg would easily last more than a week.

I guess we will just have to make an egg sandwich with most of the egg

Kind of crunchy for an egg sandwich.

Mine won't eat much either but I keep trying.

So I give them orlux gold pate. They do gobble that all up.

I put some in a seed cup and leave it at all times. No mixing they eat it dry.

mike · Post by **mike** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:37 am

I'm using Quiko egg food and they all eat it in varying degrees.

The BCCBs eat the most of the fresh prepped boiled egg but that still isn't much. Some of the other birds won't touch it at all.

I might try CeDe and see how that goes.

CandoAviary · Post by **CandoAviary** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:44 am

I boil the egg for 12 hard minutes. once done I cool them quickly in ice water to stop the cooking. Sometimes I remove the shells and place them in the microwave for about 25 seconds...this makes them crumble easily. But usually leave them on the egg (if I am in a hurry) I get the cheese grater out and grate the hard boiled egg on the side that has the little round holes. The white part of the egg comes out in thin strips...Looks like a little meal worms or white worms

...... The birds take to these strips quickly.
I put the unused egg in a small tupperware container and keep it in the fridge...if it is air tight then it should keep for up to a week.
I have fed eggfood to many different species for many years...I have tried just about everybrand and prepared it just about everyway....
I have found that the method I use now works great...I take an eggfood mixture (gold label feast, miracle meal) and add Dried bugs,( bag o'bugs, feast insectivorous) nestlig food with seed (ABBA) I mix this in bulk and keep in the freezer, removing what I would use in a week to a large jar in the fridge.
I fill an oval seed cup with a layer of this mixture and then I add the egg on top, spreading over the top of the dry mix. The parrot finches go straight for the egg strips then they eat the other. The waxbills eat both equally.. they like the dried bugs and the seed as well. The gouldians pick at it but have never consumed it like the others. And of course Zebras will eat anything I put in front of them.
I have found different birds act and eat differently. Sometimes it is a matter of being patient and letting the bird get use to the new food. Also I have found that offering a small quanity in a shallow container is not as scary for the new birds than a bunch of weird looking food. You can always increase the amount later. Also you can offer it in an eye appealing state. Try the egg strips..small 1/4 to 1/2 inch long....just a couple.....I bet they just will have to go get a bite. Good luck