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from: `jmcquown` jmcquown{at}bell
date: 2005-02-05 22:34:00
subject: Re: Food for Parakeets

cainlovesnakedmen wrote:
> "jmcquown"  wrote in message
> news:DF6Nd.14741$3W3.13580{at}bignews4.bellsouth.net...
>> cainlovesjynx wrote:
>>> "msterspy"  wrote in message
>>> news:phi701dv2890jiu0d1rq04sbutbasp5vfk{at}4ax.com...
>>>> I've been told that pellets are better than seeds for parakeets.
>>>> Any opinions here on this? When I read the labels for ingredients
>>>> for seeds, it says it has all the necessary nutrition for a
>>>> complete diet. My parakeet will eat both pellets and seeds but
>>>> mostly seeds and not much else.
>>>>
>>> Try soaked and germinated seed.
>>
>> aka - grass :)
>>
>> Jill
>>
>>
> Not grass, try pulses, millet and sunflower is good germinated and
> fed in small quantities.

I was being facetious since germinated seeds look like grass.  My birds
always loved the stuff and that's how I turned them on to other greens.

Jill




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