I see that a supplier here in Northern Ontario Canada is promoting this new Zupreem. I have always fed the fruitblend, but my guys pick out the banannas and make parrot soup out of them! lol They say they don't carry the Zupreem Fruit blend as food coloring is not the best for birds. Anyone have an experience with this?

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I'd like to feed those, but haven't had the chance to yet. I've been feeding Zupreme for years, but the Natural variety hasn't shown up in the stores I've been to yet. We feed Garden Goodness, but Arthur only eats the pellets and ignores the dried veggies and weird crouton things, so the Natural would be more economical and less wastefull.

we feed both my QP and my CAG ZuPreem AvianMaintenance Fruit Blend Flavor........

I feed all my parrots the natural zupreem.

I do it for two reasons.
1) So they don't randomly decide not to eat certain colors.
2) So I can more carefully monitor their poop.

It works really well for me and all the birds seem to like it.

I feed a mix, and both the colored and the natural are in it along with la febers, and sometiems exact, and right now a little roudybush..they like the natural though!

I have been using the natural for years.

paulie eats Zupreem garden goodness he loves it so much

I think I will have my guys try it then. They have tried the garden goodness and the fids are not impressed! lol

I give my cockaiels a few of those mixed in with thier other diet and they enjoy them. I think they're pretty good. It's the only pellet they will eat.

I agree that the Zupreem colored can be too much for some birds. My Leah gets aggressive when she eats them. When I got her that's what she was on and it took me years to learn that the coloring might be causing her aggression so I swithed her and she's sooo much calmer now. I"m not saying it's bad for all birds, but some I think are just really sensitive to food coloring. They sure smell good though!!!
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I've been feeding all my birds the Natural Zupreem...for over a year...Keeps the waste down cuz they aren't picking through it for favorite colors or shapes...

My two get the natural as well. Definitely having their poop be a natural color is a plus, it doesn't stain the carpet as badly either! They seem to like it alot and don't pick through it like they did with their other stuff.

I used Roudybush to switch from seeds and Rosita took to it the first day! After reading here in several posts that it would be good to have another pellet your FID likes, I read up on Hagen, Harrisons and Zupreem. I liked what I read about Hagen, however I could only find the Cockatiel size and Rosita wasn't interested at all. The feed store where I bought it said they would not be carrying it any longer as Hagen was only going to sell direct. Then I tried Zupreem fruit pellets, small size, and she only ate the green ones and occasionally the red. Harrisons website was pretty convincing, but again it's not readily available, only online or through a Vet. I finally found the Zupreem Avian Maintenance at Petco and it had a good expiration date. I bought the large size (Parrot & Conure size) as Rosita likes to hold her food. I gave it to her this morning, 20 of the pellets (I wanted to see how much she would eat) - also gave her the Roudybush. She ate all but one of the Zupreem pellets - yeah! as well as her Roudybush (she really likes the Roudybush). Now if I can just get my Timneh to switch!

We converted Hemingway with the Fruitblend Zupreem-- but now he prefers the Garden Goodness combined with the Natural flavor. For some reason, when we fed just the Garden Goodness it's like it had too much of the goodies in it-- he'd fling the little peas/peppers all over. Now when we mix it with the Natural Maintenance, he eats everything. Crazy birds.