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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Bird diets
Message-ID: <33456@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 16:50:58 GMT
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>>      Pellets are a
>>      quick fix in my opinion and often make up for a wrong that
>>      should be rights the RIGHT way.

This sounds an awful like "If God had intended birds to eat pellets, then
She would have created pellet trees" -- high on emotional content, nil on
information. If pellets are so bad, why do most zoos and other major avian
institutions rely on them so heavily? With such good results? And why do
most avian nutritionists (such as Roudybush at UC Davis) push pellets if you
can convert your birds to them?

From my reading of the research I can get my hands on, the experts feel that
pellets are now at the point where they are the way to go if you can get the
birds eating them. What do you know that the experts don't? Pellet
forumlations have changed radically in the last five years as avian research
has hit the point where we finally understand (or start to) what makes them
tick and don't just assume they're funny colored chickens.

Sheesh. Another religious discussion.



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