Budgie Starter is a nutritionally balanced, high protein soft food for breeding budgies. It is prepared from ingredients high in essential amino acids and contains added vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients to provide a complete diet for budgie chicks.

Use Passwell Budgie Starter as directed to supply a more digestable and balanced source of nutrition. Pre-breeding season, feed Passwell Budgie Starter at about 30% of toatl diet increasing this level to 60% during the breeding season. Reduce this back to 30% once chicks have fledged and eliminate it from the diet after the first moult. The balanced of the diet would be composed of seed, seeding grasses, soaked seed, vegetables, fruit and other treats.

About Budgie Diets

Budgie owners traditionally supplement their breeding birds with a selection of foods such as soaked seed, egg and biscuits products and a range od home-made recipes. Unfortunateley birds do not select for a healthy diet from a mixture of foods. They pick out those they prefer.

A breeding supplement for budgies needs to provide a balanced mix of nutrient in a single food to avoid favourite food selection.

In the wild, budgies feed their chicks a high protein diet of seeds, fruits and insects. Generally, the seeds of native plants provide superior nutrient compositions to those of most ceral grains fed by budgie breeders.

Millet and canary seed are low quality protein foods because they are deficent in serveral amino acids. adding an animal based protein to the food od breeding budgies will not only increase the quantity of dietary protein but will greatly improve its quality.

Breeding budgies need a supplement that contains a higher level of better quality protein than normal seed diet.

Beware of products that do not dispaly a list of ingredients, composition information or expiry date on the label.

Passwell Budgie Starter is prepared from ingredients high in essential amino acids and contains added vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients to provide a complete diet for budgie chicks.

Passwell Budgie Starter is nutritionally balanced, high protein soft food for growing budgies.

Passwell Budgie Starter is an ideal soft food for other small parrrots such as Neophemas, Red-rumps, Hooded and Mulga parrots.

Analysis: Minimum Crude Protein 23%, Maximum Fibre 6%, Minimum Crude Fat 10%, Maximum Salt 1%

Ingredients: Whey and soy protein isolates, hydrolysed casein, bread crumbs, panicum seed, hulled oats, niger seed, vegetable oils, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, methionine, vitamins A, B1, B2, B12, C, D3, E, K, nictinamide, pantothenic acid, biotin, pyridoxine, folic acid, choline, inosital, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, sodium, magnesium, maganese, iron copper, cobalt, idione and selenium.

Using Budgie Starter: Passwell Budgie Starter is granular powder and should be stored in an airtight container in a cool dry place.

To prepare a moist, crumbly soft food, slowly add warm water to the powder while mixing. Prepare food fresh for each day. We dot not advise storing prepared food in the fridge overnight as it can become contaminated with micro-organisms. Fresh is best.

Feed a heaped teaspoon of prepared Passwell Budgie Starter per bird per week about 1 month before budgies are paired for breeding. First time users should introduce Passwwell Budgie Starter in small quantities until the birds accept it. Fussy birds can be enticed to eat Passwell Budgie Starter by mixing small amounts of soaked seede or treat in the prepared food. Once the birds are paired, offer a heaped teaspoon of prepared Passwell Budgie Starter every day to pair of budgies.

After the hen lays, offer as much prepared Passwell Budgie Starter as the birds will eat. Continue to feed as much as the birds will eat until the chicks have fledged. Feed one heaped teaspoon of prepared Passwell Budgie Starter per pair per day after fledging and up till the first moult. After the moult revent to feeding one or two heaped teaspoons per week to each pair of budgies.

Available in 500G and 1KG packs.