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Video - Mike Fidler Talks About the Complete Softfood Concentrate and Sprouted Seed
The Save the Gouldian Fund "Complete Softfood Concentrate" (formerly known as "Mike Fidler's Complete Soft Food") is the most scientifically advanced soft food in the world for high metabolism birds including Finches, Softbills, and Small Parrots. The Complete Softfood Concentrate is fed to the captive population of over 2000 finches at the Save the Gouldian Fund research facility in Cooranbong, Australia, and is considered state of the art nutrition at the facility. It is also now used by the Macquarie University Zebra finch and Longtail finch research programs in Sydney, Australia.
The formula represents over 6 years of research in development, and further refinements to the formula will be made as the nutritional study continues to evolve.
The STGF Complete Softfood Concentrate, when mixed with Birds R Us Sprouting Mixes, supplies all the required nutrition for your bird when offered with a species appropriate dry seed mix, calcium grit, and water. With a view to avoiding diet imbalances such as hypervitaminosis, do not use artificial nutritional supplements while feeding the Complete Softfood Concentrate.
This research grade formula contains all nutritional elements known to science, including:
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Animal lipids essential to the support of growth, the immune system, reproduction, and nerve tissue function.
Directions
The Save the Gouldian Fund Complete Softfood Concentrate is a highly concentrated nutritionally balanced softfood. It is suitable for Finches, Softbills, and Small Parrots. Depending on the species & season, the STGF Complete Softfood Concentrate can be fed in the following ways:
You may need patience to train your birds to take a supplement food. It may be necessary to start them off by removing normal sources of food & provide only supplement food for two hours first thing in the morning. After 2 hours, return normal sources of food. After 2 weeks of feeding in this way most birds will eat the supplement readily.
Get the DVD "At Home with Mike Fidler" to learn more about Mike's thoughts on the Complete Softfood Concentrate design, and the benefits of sprouting seed.
Ingredients
Pea Meal, Whole Egg, Wheat Germ, Coconut, Sunflower Oil, Dried Molasses, Brewer's Yeast, Mixed Herbs, Fish Meal, Linseed Meal, Kelp, Garlic, Spirulina, all Essential Vitamins, Minerals & Trace Elements, Potassium Sorbate and Mixed Tocopherols to naturally preserve freshness.
Refrigerate after opening.
Guaranteed Analysis
Minimum Protein 21%
Minimum Crude Fat 7%
Maximum Crude Fibre 6.5%
Maximum Moisture 13.5%
Packaging: 500g (1.1 lbs) and 1 Kg (2.2 lbs)
Please call for a shipping quote on orders over 150 lbs.
"Over the years I have tried many brands of softfood mixes for finches. Some have proved quite satisfactory and others lacking. I have also provided my birds with all kinds of home brands made from recipes concocted from experience, guesswork or passed down from one generation to the next.
I have to say however, that Mike Fidler’s Complete Soft Food has proved to be the most reliable and beneficial of all of those that I have tried. The quality and number of birds being produced has improved substantially. It has formed an integral part of my feeding programme for a number of years now and will continue to do so for a long time to come."
Russell Kingston, 2009
Author
"Keeping and Breeding Finches and Seed-Eaters"
"A Guide to Australian Grassfinches"
"The Finch...A Breeder's Companion"
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"There is little doubt that the last 10 years has seen a tremendous improvement in the capacity of aviculturists to provide balanced nutrition for our seed eating birds, particularly finches. This is a result of improved understanding of nutritional requirements and of the availability of new products, one of which is Mike Fidler's Complete Soft Food. I have been using this product as a component of my softfood mix for the last two years and have found the results to be impressive. The powdered product is convenient to blend into my mix, and since it contains a full compliment of amino acids, vitamins and minerals it helps greatly in ensuring that all my birds can select the nutrients they require at any time through the breeding cycle.
In my case, Mike Fidler's Complete Soft Food comprises about 30% of the softfood mix that I make up and freeze. When this is then mixed with half-ripe millets and a tonic seed mix, the Mike Fidler product is about 10% of the total volume of softfood that I feed out every day. It is always difficult to quantify the benefit of different foods for finches because few of us have the time to conduct a controlled experiment with alternative foods in order to measure the differences. Nonetheless, I am certain that my finches now get the best possible nutritional mix and breeding results have been excellent. My birds also come through their moult with no difficulties and come into brilliant feather. I certainly intend to continue with the Complete Soft Food as part of the nutritional program for my collection."
Dr. Gary Fitt, 2009
President
National Finch and Softbill Association, Australia
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