My parakeets love this food and are very happy.

Yum, yum, crunch, tweet!

I’ve tried a lot of other foods, but this was my parakeets favorite since it has all the mix ins. Parakeet was able to break the shell easily to eat the seeds and food came very fresh.

birds loved it.

I typically buy this at the pet store for my 3 parakeets, but can be rather expensive when you buy the 4 lb bags. This saved me a little money and divided it all in 1 quart freezer bags and put it in my birdie freezer. Less trips to the pet store and some money savings. Good bargain!!

I bought this as a supplement to add diversity to the finch mix I already feed in my aviary. It has lots of variety including buckwheat and some kind of crushed pellet similar to chicken feed. The only thing I don’t like is the little colored cat food looking bits and the artificially colored random seed. In my experience no hook bill or softbill I’ve owned has ever eaten those cat food chunks. I understand they’re trying to make it colorful so it’s interesting to the birds but it’s always wasted until it ends up on the lawn for the wild birds. Another good option for adding some seed diversity is hitting up the bulk grain bins at a health food store. Even my finches enjoy the challenge of safflower seeds and the other odd ones not usually in a finch mix.

This is long- sorryFirst of all, I’ve been feeding our three parakeets this food for 8 months now. You need to check for mold and smell the seeds for freshness- any company. The seeds can get damp in a warehouse if not sealed properly. I also order from chewy (they put the bag of seeds in another bag and then on a box to send. )Anyway, you should not feed your parakeet an all seed diet. I don’t care how good the seed are. I also mix add fresh lettuce (not iceburg) and carrots chopped, but not everyday. Unfortunately one of my female parakeets developed an external tumor growing from her oil gland. It was small and unmonitored it daily. It started to grow fast because she was picking at it. It grew large and bulbous looking. I made an appointment to an avian vet, but had to wait a long time to get her in. Finally she was seen and the doctor said it was a tumor. Sometimes they can be cancerous. It was hanging on like a stem on a flower. She was very uncomfortable with the weight on her backside. I felt bad. I had to wait another month to get her in watching for changes in the tumor growth. Anyway, they put her under and removed it. Great vet. She had to wear a fabricated collar around her neck for almost 2 weeks, she wouldn’t bite the stitches. I also had to administer pain medicine and antibiotics. Have you ever tried catching a bird and putting meds in the mouth? It is not fun. I know most people would say, it’s just a parakeet” and not spend the money, but she is a family member and I didn’t want to see her in this condition.It cost me $388.00 for the operation and because I want to know if it was cancerous. It came back negative. It’s a common tumor developed from an all seed diet and lacking in vitamin A. I was told by the vet that eating an all seed diet is like eating fast food all the time. High in fat. Seeds loose can their vitamins which were added. She suggested mixing in a brand called Zupreem (you can order on Amazon) They are tiny pellets you can introduce slowly to your parakeet. They are full nutrition instead of an all seed diet. I bought a bag and slowly I introducing them. I won’t take the seeds away because they will starve if they don’t want to eat the pellets. It’s a slow introduction. Kaylee seeds are excellent because they do provide a variety mix. There are pellets in the seeds but a different type. My birds don’t eat them.They do seem to live the Zupreem pellets.Not all parakeets develop tumors, but it can happen. You can look up these tumors on the oil gland. :)I like this brand because it has a good mix of dried items. None of my three parakeets have been sick from these seeds. However, I would suggest to freeze the seeds for several days ( don’t allow moisture ) because I now have flying moths around my house. They are harmless to the birds and people, but annoying and make little cocoons in your corners high up. The caterpillars- once in a warm room- will hatch and craw up to make a cocoon. The birds love eating them if they see them in their dish. After all, a lot of bird seeds have the caterpillar eggs but many don’t hatch. Extra protein and they are birds - right? Some seed have insect larvae and some brands don’t. I’m going to call the company to tell them.Don’t let this deter you. The seeds are great and then it’s love them, but don’t stay with an all seeds diet

All I can say is that our parakeets LOVE this stuff. They simply can't get enough of it and have told me it is a perfect diet for them and to stop trying other brands. So I suppose it really is gourmet to them. They enjoy the vast majority of the delicious items in there, only leaving a few behind (or throwing a few out of the food bin). The yellow disk-like ones they aren't too fond of, maybe because they are too large. I'm not quite sure what they are, but perhaps those are the "dried whole egg" listed on the ingredients. They don't seem to be too excited about fresh (boiled) egg anyway. But everything else clearly tastes good to them. When viewing their excrement it is clearly healthy, so I do believe this is providing them with everything they need.Initially my wife was worried that the birds were only eating seeds and wanted to get them something else too, since having "real" food is essential to their diet. But if you look at all the delicious things in here from dried papaya, dehydrated apples, dried pineapple, sunflower seeds all the way to dried bacillus licheniformis fermentation product, they clearly are getting more than seeds in their diet, so who wouldn't love this mix! I might just buy a bag as snack mix when I'm at the office!UPDATE after 2 years. We've been buying this stuff now for quite some time, and the birds still love it. Unlike humans, they aren't getting sick of it : )