Volkman Featherglow Cooked Bird Food 4 lb

A parrot fed on dry seed and pellets all its life is eating the equivalent of crackers. Warm cooked food is the single easiest way to change that, and these are the two Volkman blends that do it.

They are also the cleanest labels Volkman make — Soak & Simmer is ten whole-food ingredients with nothing added at all.

The two — and they are not interchangeable

People buy one expecting the other, so it is worth reading that table twice. Soak & Simmer must be cooked — raw pulses are not food for a bird.

Soak & Simmer — why the 2% fat matters

A large parrot seed mix runs around 22% fat. This runs 2%. If your bird is carrying weight, or you simply want to dilute a rich diet with something substantial, this is the counterweight — high protein, very low fat, and filling.

Ingredients, in full: dehydrated peas, rough rice, wheat, barley, buckwheat, corn, oat groats, lentils, beans, dehydrated carrot. Ten things. No colours, no preservatives, no added sugar, no oils.

How to prepare: soak overnight, then cook it through. Volkman say this improves both palatability and digestibility. Serve alone or mixed with fresh chopped vegetables. Feed only what the bird will eat and take the dish away within a couple of hours — cooked food spoils quickly, and warm wet food in a cage is a bacterial problem by lunchtime.

Birdie's Buffet — the fast one

For medium to large hookbills, and a different job: cover it with water, leave it about fifteen minutes, and serve. Brown rice, lentils, dehydrated carrot and peas, buckwheat, barley, oat groats, banana, corn, coconut, mixed nuts, peppers, shelled peanuts, papaya and pasta, with added niacin, iron, thiamine, riboflavin and folic acid, sun-cured fruits, sunflower and vegetable oil, banana flavour, citric acid, calcium — and FD&C colouring and sulfur dioxide.

Some retailers describe Birdie's Buffet as having no artificial colours or preservatives. Volkman's own ingredient list says otherwise, and we would rather you heard that from us. If a clean label is what you are after, Soak & Simmer is the one.

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Questions we get asked

Can I serve Soak & Simmer raw if I soak it long enough?
No. Cook it. Dried beans and pulses need heat, not just water.

How much do I make?
What the bird will eat in a sitting. Cook a batch, portion it into an ice-cube tray and freeze it — most owners end up doing this within a fortnight.

My bird has never had warm food.
Start with a spoonful alongside the usual bowl. Serve it warm, not hot. Birds are suspicious of new textures and often need to see you interested in it first.

Does this replace pellets or seed?
No — it sits alongside them. Think of it as the vegetable course.

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