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People Want to Know!. HBD = Harrison’s Bird Foods. HBD. No added colors No kiddy shapes No artificial flavors or smells No fruits and vegetables. HBD. No soak and sprout No cook No pressed or coated seed products. GIMMICKS SELL!!!!. Supplements?. NO!!!
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People Want to Know! HBD = Harrison’s Bird Foods
HBD • No added colors • No kiddy shapes • No artificial flavors or smells • No fruits and vegetables
HBD • No soak and sprout • No cook • No pressed or coated seed products
Supplements? • NO!!! • Unless the ones on the bag they lead to breeding
Supplements? • Alex is thirty on HBD • Gets seed and nut supplements • Still picks
Early study showed SFS needed to breed African grey parrots on Harrison’s
READ THE BACK OF THE BAG • Best results
Organic • Organic seeds are still unbalanced • Want organic seeds for Zoo, aviculture, finches or canary’s? – use Wild Wings
HBD has had Wild Wings organic seeds for 15 years – not recommended for pets! • Exception Gray millet for renal cases
Organic Certified? If not on label not -certified!!!
HBD • SSF from Brazil under sustainable conditions, not from Malaysia so not hurting orangutans • Spirulina - no metals, no mycotoxins • Peanuts - no mycotoxins
No therapeutic diets? • No research to show need • No research to show better than Harrison’s ! • Seed support = AVIx
HBD - No Food Price Increase Ever! • Shipping has gone up • Many other 50% cheaper a decade ago • Now often more than Harrison’s on a per pound basis
Confidence through research! www.clinicalavianmedicine.net
Cholesterol and Arthero Sclerosis in Psittacines • Ionised Calcium Concentrations
Wild Australian psittacines: plasma and hepatic minerals and blood biochemistry
The Magic of Parrot Breeding...John Stoodley (HTML) • Do Birds Care About the Appearance of Their Food? • Standards in the Organic Food Industry
Ask the Bird Guy is back! Click to access database of over 3000 F.A.Q.s
People Want to Know! • We have answers • Customers from veterinarians and companies call HBD for answers
www.harrisonsbirdfoods.com • Handbook For A Healthier Bird -FreeQuick .pdf download of Harrison 's 41 page informational-reference booklet. A must read for all pet bird owners.
Education • AMPA one chapter a month $99 for book • CAM • IVIS one chapter a month
Rancidity • CAM page 111 • Learn to smell and taste
Storage • The bag is the secrete • CAM page 113
Samples • HBD has free samples • Cost less than bagging from bags – just food alone. Sample bag, time etc extra
Indications: -Dry flaky skin (beak, nails), balding of the feet, lack of sheen and proper color to feathers.-aging birds on formulated -African Grey Parrots, Hyacinth Macaws and Palm Cockatoos.
-Preliminary results have shown two cases of juvenile cataracts to have regressed.
Pain & Suffering!!! HBD funded studies • All birds on seed diets tested have had osteodystrophy • All birds on seeds tested have hadarthrosclerosis
Research committee for Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons • Can not use a control group on seeds as is cruel!