Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR: Cockatiel breeding question
Message-ID: <9372@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 21:27:58 GMT
References: <757@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <27C2E8E5.10DE@intercon.com>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <27C2E8E5.10DE@intercon.com> ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry) writes:
>The next decision you will have to make is whether you wish to pull the
>chicks for hand feeding.  If so, we use purina AVN pellets ground up,
>mixed with baby cereal (dry) and nekton lori food.  We've tried some of
>the commercial formulas on the market and they seem to cause crop 
>impaction.

    Have you tried NutriStart?  It is expensive (about $35 for 5 lbs.),
but it is an excellent product.  We have handfed lovebirds (from 4 days
old), cockatiels, and large parrots on this and not had one single problem.
It is made with rice and absorbs huge quantities of water.  This eliminates
crop impaction by bonding the water into the food - we have tried other
commercial products (Lakes, etc.) and I've never seen anything that came
close to it.  On the big parrots you could (using weight-gain graphs)
actually see what day the bird was switched from the NutriStart to a
diet much like the one you recommend.

   Stewart



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