What diet should breeding budgies be fed?

[Nicola]

Hi all I am thinking about breeding 2 of my budgies (Daisy and Gilbert) at the end of the year and I am wondering what diet would give them the best possible chance for fertile eggs and strong healthy chicks. At ideas?
Thanks,

Nicola

[Gaile]

just need clean water daily, budgie seed and also plain canary seed which the parents feed to their young!! I give mine chopped veg daily! you can give them 'eggfood' which I buy in !!

[Nicola]

Thanks Gaile What about cuttlebone, iodine blocks etc?

Nicola

[darrenc271]

Hiya nicola yeah av got all them in my breedin cages calcium blocks iodine blocks cuttlefish

[Nicola]

Thanks Darren

Nicola

[BudgiesBuddy]

Breeding diet should start a month before the breeding. Meanwhile, a good varied diet will do

[wigglepuppy]

Mine get a standard diet of high quality seed mix with a multivitamin, a cuttlebone, assorted fruits and veg (their favourites are parsley and apple), a dry eggfood mix, and because they fly free in a room that has two free range rabbits and a macaw, they help themselves to alfalfa pellets, timothy hay, and whatever is in the parrot's dish (roudybush and harrison's pellets mostly). If hens feeding chicks seem to be craving something extra I offer them a clay supplement.