Egg food

[Marvin]

Can anyone help please!

I've been feeding my zebs egg food daily, this is the kinda thing



but wondered if it can be fed dried? I mix it up with water but saw somewhere it could be fed dried?

Has anyone tried it?

Thank you for any help anyone can offer.

[Animal Quackers]

I believe it can be fed dry - we feed it dry at our house! Does it give you any instructions on the box?

[Nagdabit]

We have been using Cede egg snack for years (packing on American product appears a little different) and have always fed it dry. Our guys devour it as is. I have noticed that some cages when they are feeding young will take a beakful over to the water dish and make up their own type of "slurry", but for the most part they eat it dry.

[Marvin]

Thank you so much!

I've been feeding it mixed with water, so I'll try it dry. It'll last a lot longer in the dishes if fed dry, so thats really useful.

Egg food's great stuff for the parents feeding chicks as they can regurgitate it and feed the young ones really easy and quickly.

Thanks again folks, very much appreciated.

[Nagdabit]

My only concern would be that since finches can be such creatures of habit, it could take them a little while to realize that the dry stuff is the same thing. Seems like every time we try something new in the cages, it takes a couple of days until they get into a new routine. Although it could be that our birds are just goofy

[Total Finch]

i had it and my birds barely eat it

[Marvin]

Thanks for that - my birds go crazy for it, I think they find it the easy option when cramming as much food as possible into the chicks.

They've only got about seven hours of daylight a day to feed so maybe thats why they stuff themselves with it!!

[Neysa]

I can't get my birds to touch the stuff. Not dry, nor wet. They have gotten used to me putting a treat cup in and they come to check it out. But if it's the commercial egg mix they fly off and go eat their normal seeds. I've tried mixing it with their seeds and they just leave it in the bowl. Today I have added it to the fresh boiled egg. Will see what happens. A small bag costs me over US$8 so I really don't want to think it was a waste.

[Marvin]

Thats amazing! My birds fight over it!!

[ac12]

Birds can be FUSSY.
I have a pair of gouldians,
- the male will eat pellets, seeds, egg, miracle meal, commerical egg mix, lettuce, brocoli, carrots.
- the female will only eat sees and miracle meal.

I have given up trying to get the female to eat anything else. At this point rather than training her to eat other food, I want her to mate and SIT on her eggs to hatching.

[Nagdabit]

Have to echo Gary's sentiments, finches diet preferences can fluctuate greatly from one individual to another. We have a total of eight cages and most cages will eat the egg food on a daily basis. Some of those will totally empty their dishes while others will eat to varying degrees. We do have one cage that will barely touch it unless they are feeding babies, as well as another that hardly bothers with it at all, period. Some of our new additions had to be exposed to it for a week or two before they decided they liked it. All birds that are raised here will eat it regularly, most likely cause that is what their parents would load up on when they were feeding them.

Depending on what other food options they have, some birds very well might be getting what they need from another source and not bother with the egg food. I wouldn't worry too much about it unless they are raising young.

[FinchDegg]

A cheaper equivalent is just a normal boiled egg mix with crushed oyster shell (2kg = £4.99 free delivary on ebay)

[Neysa]

I've been boiling my own eggs and crushing the egg shell in it too. To the point where my son saw me cooking yesterday and asked what was for dinner. Really glad I had his dinner on the stove too.

Added a little of the commercial egg food to the fresh egg, and it seems to have gotten eaten that way.