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KAYTEE Exact Handfeeding Baby Bird Food, 22-lb pail

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Is it good for baby sparrows

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Chewy

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Jul 07, 2019

This food can be used with baby sparrows.

Hi for how long I can feed my bird with this?

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May 20, 2021

Weaning age will vary depending on the individual bird species so it is best to research your species. To encourage the weaning process, exact Conversion diets should be offered when "exploration" begins. When the baby bird is fully feathered, offer exact Conversion diet, or an adult daily diet of exact Natural food or exact Rainbow food in a clean food cup, in addition to routine hand feeding. The baby bird will slowly begin to prefer these new forms of the food. Fresh water must be provided at all times. Prolonged use of hand feeding formula beyond the normal weaning age, or excessive feeding, may result in health concerns. A chick will lose up to 10% of its body weight during weaning as it begins to eat on its own. Birds wean easily onto exact Conversion diets or exact adult daily diets because of compatible taste and ingredients.

is this product good for cockatiels

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Mar 16, 2021

This product would be a good option for baby cockatiels.

Is this ok for wild bird babies?

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May 31, 2021

This food is formulates specifically for Baby Parrots (including Parakeets, Lovebirds, Cockatiels, Conures, Cockatoos, Macaws, Amazons, African Greys, and other Psittacines) & Baby Passerines.

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By Idunno on Jun 19, 2022

formula helpful for omnivores too

Rgregarding other reviews as to not for wild birds or, not for starlings… yes starlings need approx 33%. Protein, but add protein to this, or rather ,add This to protein , as it has the -biotics and enzymes that can help. Wit h any bird consider complete nutritional needs. And consider the specific situation, we don’t always have access to the exact ingredients we want. So we do our best with what we have available.

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Very good prices, easy to buy, high quality, and employees were very accommodating. I will be buying from here again if I can get a wholesale deal. If there is any wholesale deals available, let me know

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By Rhone on Dec 22, 2021

If Mommy can't

If the parents aren't able to care for their babies this is the best way to go. I have used this formula for quite a few babies and they all have done great with this

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I was so pleased when my order arrived so quickly. I had run out of food for my baby. I had traveled 40 miles to town to pick some up but stores were all out. I should have placed my order sooner!

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By pigeonpete on Sep 11, 2021

Kaytee Exact Hand Feeding Formula Baby Bird Food

Kaytee Exact Hand Feeding Formula Baby Bird Food is the standard the business

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By Catwoman06 on Sep 8, 2021

Baby Bird Formula

Very good value.. Baby birds grow very fast and look very healthy on this food

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By MickeyNz on Jan 22, 2021

Not appropriate for ALL baby birds - Insectivorous or Omnivorous Wild birds.

Hi there, Baby Starlings & Sparrows need a baby diet high in animal protein. Yes as adults they also eat seed but to develop as nestlings & fledglings they need a diet 33% and higher in animal protein. Kaytee is only 22% protein and its from plants. Your rescue baby starling and sparrow needs more than that. Check back of cat or dog biscuits - first ingredient needs to be chicken and check the percentage of protein. Soak in hot water and mush it up completely like porridge so the baby doesn't have blockages in its corp when you feed it. Needs calcium and bird vitamins as well, not just protein but that will get you far!. I do recommend Kaytee for Pet Parrots etc and the ones that it mentions on the back of the package.

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By CBMorgan on Feb 13, 2021

No sugar added!

I haven’t used this yet, but it was the only hand feeding formula that has good mixing consistency (per reviews) that surprisingly does not contain added sugar! Though I have read many people complaining about Kaytee in general, their formula is as complete as you could hope for considering today’s pet-feeding standards, and is not grainy like Harrison’s, and a fraction of the price.

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Kaytee Exact Hand Feeding Formula for All Baby Birds Description

Kaytee Exact Hand Feeding Baby Bird is a premium extruded food and has been the recognized nutritional leader by veterinarians and breeders since its introduction over a decade ago.

Exact hand feeding formula for All Baby Birds
High nutrition formula that helps baby birds grow faster, wean earlier
Aids in the development of better and brighter plumage

Available for birds and small animals, exact is the most researched and widely used extruded food available. Kaytee Exact Hand-Feeding Formula is a nutritious diet for hand-feeding baby birds.

Exact Hand-Feeding Formula is made through a special process which produces an instant formula with low bacteria levels. Exacts high nutrition formula helps baby birds grow faster, wean earlier and develop better, brighter plumage than similar birds fed with homemade formulas.

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min) - 22.0%
Crude Fat (min) - 9.0%
Crude Fiber (max) - 5.0%
Moisture (max) - 10.0%

Kaytee Exact Hand Feeding Formula for All Baby Birds Customer Reviews

Royce, Hobbs NM on 2015/11/05

Very pleased

On recommendation from a friend, I tried Kaytee Exact baby bird formula for my baby pigeons which needed hand-fed for one reason or another. I was very pleased with the results. My babies grew and were healthy through weaning. Great product!

Ej, Hutchins TX on 2013/07/24

Fast Shipping and great prices!

PetMountain is our "Go-To" place for supplies needed at our Wildlife Rehab Center. As a non-profit, free shipping and great prices are a must for us!

Justin, Chicago IL on 2007/04/04

" perfect, perfect, perfect!"

I raised my Baby infant dove off this, and she grew to be one healthy bird.

Grace, Roscommon MI on 2006/11/02

Best we found

We raise Cockatiels and have for a number of years. We don't use any other formula except for Kaytee. We have raised over 200 baby cockatiels and found it easy to use and mixing it is so easy, my 7 year old grand daughter can do it.

How to feed the found chick, how many times a day

If you find a chick, the first thing you need to do is determine its species. Feeding granivorous, insectivorous and predatory chicks have their own differences. But in the early stages of feeding, you can use the same feeding methods, and then, after finding out what kind of bird you found, transfer the chick to the appropriate feeding.

Here is one of the most common feeding options for granivorous and insectivorous chicks. This nutrient mixture is well used for feeding for chicks and fledglings from the passerine family. To prepare our mixture, we need the following products: Boiled egg, low-fat cottage cheese, raw carrots, meat (beef, chicken, turkey), greens (lettuce, dandelion leaves, wood lice), hamarus and daphnia, Calcium gluconate (shell from boiled eggs) glycerophosphate , children's dry dairy-free porridge or boiled millet (without salt and fat on the water).

Action one. Boil the egg, free from the shell. We free the shell from the shell film. Grind the egg as much as possible, you can use a grater with small holes.

Second step. Boiled meat, it is better to take the pulp from the breast of a turkey or chicken and also chop or divide into fibers. The mixture will require meat 40 (for granivorous) and 60 grams (for insectivorous).

Third step. Take washed carrots of a small size, grate them on a fine grater, then squeeze the juice and we will use the remaining pulp.

Fourth step. We take not sour and not fatty cottage cheese. Cottage cheese should have 0% fat content, anything above is considered fat for poultry. We need 90-110 grams of cottage cheese. Sour cottage cheese must be boiled twice changing the water and then it will be suitable.

Step five. You can use greens to add the mixture, but you can do without it for the chicks. And so you can take the greens listed above, chop and add 1.5 teaspoons to the mixture.

Action six. To the above ingredients, add 1.5 -2 tsp. dairy-free porridge or boiled millet (well boiled, without salt and fat in the water).

Step seven. To the mixture we add the shell from the boiled egg, which must first be ground in a coffee grinder, plus one fourth of the crushed tablet of glycerophosphate. If it is not possible to find glycerophosphate, then you can purchase bone meal and add one fourth tsp. in powder form. At the very least, the shells are enough for now.

Step eight. We take chopped hamarus and daphnia and add about 1 tsp to the resulting mixture. Then we mix everything, it turns out a very thick, crumbly porridge, it should not stick to the fingers. If the mixture is sticky, you can add dairy-free porridge or powdered cereals.

From the resulting mixture we roll small balls no larger than a small pea, focus on the size of the chick's beak. You can feed 2-5 balls at a time and after each feeding drink plain water from an insulin syringe with a removable needle (without a needle) 4-6 drops. A week-old chick should be fed every 1-1.5 hours, older than two weeks of age every 2-4 hours, at three and four weeks of age you can feed 3-4 times a day. Do not forget that the chick is growing and, accordingly, one-time portions of food are growing. A very important point, do not forget to warm the chicks, because at their age they themselves cannot maintain normal body temperature. Warming up promotes better assimilation of feed. Don't forget to control your chick's weight. If possible, show the chick to a specialist. To control the work of the intestines, you can take the litter from the chick for a coprogram, this is an analysis of the digestibility of the feed.

Take care and love your feathered friends and they will love you back.

Veterinarian ornithologist
Chuguevsky VV

Veterinary clinic Bambi.

You can ask an ornithologist on the forum.

How to feed chickens with compound feed - compound feed for chickens

Complete and balanced nutrition is the key to the health of birds of any age. Compound feed for chickens is very important for the daily diet. It is allowed to feed both purchased and self-cooked food. However, it is extremely important that such food contains useful vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Depending on the age of the chicks, the weight and composition of the daily portion differ. This factor will have to be taken into account if it is important for you to choose the most suitable compound feed for chickens. Read our article about what types of feed mixture exist.

What to feed in the first days of life

For newly hatched chicks, hard-boiled and crushed eggs (if the birds are not broilers) and egg powder (if broilers are being prepared) are usually added to the food. It is possible to use millet. However, mash or crushed grain should not be given, because such products can cause digestive problems. Ready-made feed for chickens is usually included in the diet no earlier than the fifth day of life. The daily food intake can vary from 15 to 30 g per chick. Also at this time it is recommended to give cottage cheese. Food needs to be slightly moistened with whey. It is also allowed to add reverse, yogurt, greens, buttermilk, fodder yeast, crushed eggshells, grated carrots. As the bird's body weight increases, the amount of product given should also increase. For example, if the chick is only a week old, its weight is approximately 80 g, then it is enough for him to get 15 g per day. Compound feed for two-week-old chickens - 30-45 g per day (with a weight of 150 g). One month old birds can be switched from starter feed to grower pellets. Its daily rate should be about 100 g per individual. The composition of such food is very rich and includes all the necessary:

minerals;
vitamins;
amino acids;
proteins.

Whey, meat and bone meal, lettuce and cabbage leaves, nettles, green onions, cake are already mixed into food. In addition to compound feed for chickens in granules, you can give millet steamed porridge (you need to pour grain into boiled water, turn off the fire on the stove and leave the food to infuse until it cools). However, the consistency should not be too hard or runny. Otherwise, birds will have digestive problems from such compound feed for chickens.

Advantages and disadvantages of compound feed

It is recommended to feed chickens from birth with feed specially designed for this purpose. However, this feeding option can have not only advantages, but also disadvantages. Let's talk about this in more detail. Benefits of feeding with compound feed for chickens:

The growth of birds is accelerated.
The level of vitality is increased.
Strengthens the immune system, the ability to resist diseases.
Feed mixture consumption is reduced.
There is no need to additionally feed the birds, because the feed is balanced.
Ensuring good nutrition thanks to the content of substances necessary for health.

Disadvantages of compound feed for chickens:

Requires a constant supply of water.
Foods high in wheat may impair digestion.
High price of the product.
Unnatural composition and improperly selected feed can impair the health of the chicks.

Popular brands of feed for chickens

The most popular at the moment are two feed options - PC-5 and PC-6 (PC-2 is also actively used, but its popularity is a little less than these two). The brands have been on the market for a long time and have earned respect from breeders around the world.

PC-5

This mixture can be used immediately after the birth of the chick. It has a high nutritional value, therefore it is primarily recommended for meat species. It guarantees the rapid growth of bones and muscles, will contribute to the proper development of the joints. Sold in the form of crushed granules. The food is easily and quickly digested, it is considered easy to digest. It is worth saying that you can buy equipment for the production of compound feed in our company. Main ingredients of compound feed for chickens:

cereals (make up about half of the mix, corn usually more, about 30%, and wheat 20%),
meal,
vegetable type oil,
rapeseed cake,
animal fat,
gluten,
beet molasses,
baking soda,
vitamins, chalk,
salt,
fishmeal,
phosphate,
starch,
yeast.

From the first days, the chicks are fed on the basis of 15-20 g per head. By the month, the dosage increases to 100-115 g. It should be noted that mixtures for young animals are dry food, they are given separately. But it is allowed to mix them with fermented milk products, wet mixers or grass.

PK-6

Compound feed for chickens PK-6 was created specifically for rearing broiler hens, ducklings or broilers over five weeks old. Meat breeds, when eating such food, can gain weight every day up to 60 g. The composition includes:

soybean meal,
corn,
limestone flour,
wheat,
sunflower meal and oil,
fishmeal.

This compound feed for chickens also contains a vitamin-mineral complex and salt. There is more wheat in the mixture than corn, it makes up almost half of the product. And this is precisely the main difference from the PC-5. However, there is a drawback to the feed - the consumption is large. From week 5, 110 g of feed is consumed per individual, and by week 7 this figure rises to 165-180 g.

Compound feed for chickens “Start”

Sometimes called “Nulyovka”, because it is often used for chicks that have just been born. The mixture is purchased for feeding individuals from the first day to the second week. The composition of different manufacturers differs only in the quantitative terms of the components. And the main ingredients are unchanged:

corn,
legumes and barley,
minerals,
wheat,
vitamins.

Soda, bone or fish meal, limestone, salt, vegetable fat can also be added to the composition. On the first day, this compound feed for chickens is given every two hours. Then the interval between feeding increases, but the main thing is that the chicks do not starve.

Compound feed "Growth" for chickens

It should also be given to young chickens for the normal development of the skeletal and muscular system. Add to food from 2 weeks, and finish feeding them somewhere in one month. The feed mixture is excellent for broilers, laying hens. The mixture does an excellent job of stimulating the growth of muscles, the correct skeleton, cartilage. The main ingredients that make up the composition are corn, wheat, meat and bone or fish meal, vitamins, amino acids, vegetable oil, minerals, enzymes. The granules of this compound feed for chickens are larger than those of Start, however, two-week-old chicks can eat such food. The feed rate per individual is 120 g in the second week, by the month it is increased to 140 g.

Feed mixture "Finish"

Let's move on to the final stage of feeding the chicks (next is adult nutrition). This mixture should be given for two days from day 28 to day 35-40 of life. The composition includes:

cereals (corn, wheat),
soybean meal,
sunflower cake,
legumes,
vegetable oil (usually sunflower),
salt,
minerals,
chalk, vitamins.

The granules of compound feed for chickens are large, but at the same time they are quite convenient for older chickens. Approximately 140-170 g of food is consumed per individual every day. The weight gain reaches 55 g.

Which compound feed is better in different periods of growing chickens?

Previously, it was detailed at what age what food is best for chicks, but here I would like to summarize the information. The following options for compound feed for chickens are distinguished:

starter - up to 14 days;
growth - up to 30 days;
finishing - older than a month.

At the same time, the main components of "Start" are: corn, wheat, barley, vitamins, minerals, peas, fish meal, limestone, plant fat, phosphates, amino acids, antioxidants, soda. The grain itself is crushed to the state of small particles, and the remaining components can be added at the request of the manufacturer. If you need to transfer the offspring to feed from the starter type of feeding, the first few times the mixture should be further crushed. Finishing feed for chickens is characterized by an increased portion of the protein in the composition.

What is the right way to feed chickens?

We have figured out what types of feed for chicks exist, now it's time to move on to how to feed chicken feed. At the very beginning, it should be noted that feed mixtures are used in different cases. So, PC-5 or PC-6 are more suitable for broilers, because they help to grow a healthy and large chicken in a small amount of time. Compound feed for chickens "Start", "Growth" or "Finish" can be used for mixed species or egg breeds. When the chicks are just hatching, they need to be fed quite often, but in small portions. In this case, eight meals a day are considered ideal. For each individual, no more than 50 grams of feed will be required. The need for proteins, fats, carbohydrates and trace elements can be filled with this mixture: