Feeding your pet bird

I have mainly been talking about feeding wild birds in my blog to this point but today's blog will focus on our pet bird food products and the philosophy behind them. 

Yes we do manufacture bird food for companion birds, in fact this is how we got started in the bird seed business many years ago.  Our customers, many of whom are bird breeders, have very exacting standards on bird seed and we have created our seed mixes to meet those requirements.

One of the most important requirements of any bird seed mix is it's cleanliness.   Dust is very harmful to bird health and we triple clean our bird seed ingredients to ensure there is no dust in our mixes.  Then secondly, good quality ingredients are important.  We spend a great deal of time sourcing excellent quality ingredients for our mixes to ensure freshness, flavour and nutritional value.  Finally, our mixes are formulated to provide interest, variety and nutrition.  While our mixes are seed, fruit, vegetable and nut based, we do add a vitamin enriched pellet to some of our seed mixes where necessary to ensure that the seed mix can be used as a daily diet for your bird. 

We do not add preservatives to our mixes or food coloring.  This is because we know that some of these ingredients can actually be toxic to birds.  We believe in offering good, honest, all natural ingredients and believe that if we can educate our customers on how to store and rotate their stock effectively, then we should not need to add preservatives to our mixes. 

While some bird experts promote only feeding pet birds a pellet diet to ensure birds get properly formulated nutrition, it is our customers' experience that some bird's will thrive much better on a diet that has interesting and varied ingredients that provide this nutritional value. 

If you are located in Canada and are interested in trying a sample of our our Mother Nature's companion bird seed for your pet, send us an email at seed@chinridge.com and we will send you a sample to try.