Unbalanced diets are a major source of nutritional deficiencies, which can lead to serious health issues and disease in birds. These issues may include musculoskeletal disease, cardiac disease, reproductive issues, iron storage disease, and hepatic lipidosis.
The Maintenance Diet is veterinary formulated to address these concerns by fulfilling all of your bird's core nutritional requirements in one easy-to-feed formula.
Complete Nutrition: Provides a balanced diet to maintain healthy weight without causing excess fat deposition.
Disease Prevention: Helps prevent the common deficiencies that lead to severe health conditions.
Superior Quality: Pellets are extrusion cooked for optimum digestibility, high palatability, and maximum food safety.
Store in an airtight container out of direct sunlight and below 30°C. Consume within 30 days of opening for optimum freshness.
Maintenance Diet should be fed as your bird’s primary diet (80% of daily feed consumed).
The remaining 20% of the diet should be made up of healthy fruit and vegetables (15%) and a small amount of treat foods such as nuts and seeds (5%), to provide variety and enrichment in their diet. Fresh water should be available at all times.
Daily Pellet Recommendation:
Vetafarm recommends that parrots are fed a minimum of 10% of their bodyweight in pellets per day, for example:
90g Cockatiel (or similar): provide a minimum 9g of Maintenance Diet per day.
150g Sun conure (or similar): provide a minimum 15g of Maintenance Diet per day.
300g Galah (or similar): provide a minimum of 30g of Maintenance Diet per day.
These feeding recommendations should be used as a guide only. Be sure to check with your veterinarian for more specific information if your bird has special dietary needs due to a health condition.
Whole grains (wheat, corn & soybean), soy protein isolate, oat fibre, vegetable oil, naturalorganic acids, amino acids (lysine and methionine), vitamins (A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, B12, C, D3,E, H & K), choline and minerals (calcium, cobalt, copper, iron, iodine, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium, sulphur and zinc).
