Harrison's High Potency Fine Organic Bird Food

High Potency Fine is the same maximum-nutrition organic formula that made Harrison's the pellet avian vets recommend — ground small enough for a cockatiel, conure, lovebird or budgie to handle comfortably.

It is a richer diet than a maintenance pellet on purpose. This is what you feed a bird that is doing something demanding: coming off seed, breeding, weaning, moulting, or recovering.

Which birds this is for

Small to medium birds — cockatiels, conures, lories, quakers, budgies (parakeets), lovebirds and doves. Larger parrots want High Potency Coarse. Canaries and finches want High Potency Super Fine.

High Potency or Adult Lifetime?

Feed High Potency while a bird is converting from seed (minimum six months), breeding, within 6–9 months of weaning, moulting, off its ideal weight, recovering from illness, or under veterinary care for liver or kidney disease. Once the bird is healthy, settled and fully converted, move to Adult Lifetime Fine.

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Ingredients

Hulled millet*, hull-less barley*, toasted soybeans*, sunflower kernels*, whole corn*, peanut kernels*, peas*, lentils*, toasted oat groats*, brown rice*, chia*, alfalfa*, calcium carbonate, bentonite, vitamin and mineral supplement, dried kelp*, salt, dried algae*. (*certified organic)

How much to feed

Around 70% of the daily diet as Harrison's, with roughly 25% organic dark green leafy or dark yellow vegetables and fruit. Feed fresh daily and offer it as distinct meals rather than a bowl that is always full — it wastes far less.

Switching your bird onto pellets

Small birds have a fast metabolism and can get into trouble in 36–48 hours if they stop eating, so this is not a diet to change casually. Talk to your avian vet first, then:

1. Leave fresh Harrison's available all day.
2. Keep one familiar food — usually the seed — and drop everything else.
3. Offer it three times a day for exactly 15 minutes, six hours apart, then take it away.
4. Withdraw the seed windows one at a time as the bird takes to the nuggets.

Weigh daily on a gram scale; more than 10% movement is a warning. Watch the droppings — fewer or smaller means not enough food is going in. Harrison's JumpStart Grey Millet for 3–5 weeks beforehand, or baking the current seed into Bird Bread Mix, both make the switch easier on a small bird.

Storage

Reseal after every use, keep cool, dry and out of the light. With the 5 lb bag, keep a week's worth to hand and refrigerate or freeze the rest.

Questions we get asked

How long does a 1 lb bag last a cockatiel?
Around four to six weeks for one bird, depending on how much fresh food it gets alongside.

Is Fine too big for a budgie?
Most budgies manage Fine well. If yours picks at it and gives up, Super Fine is the smaller grind.

Do I still need a vitamin supplement?
No — it is a complete diet, and adding vitamins can unbalance it. Check with your vet before adding anything.

How long before I move to Adult Lifetime?
Six months minimum on High Potency, and Harrison's suggest eight. There is no harm in staying longer if your bird is breeding or moulting.

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