Kaytee Orange Blossom Honey Seed
Kaytee makes an orange blossom honey treat that is 'fortified'. This is a treat and clearly says on the container that it should not be fed as a primary food source. It is in fact primarily canary grass seed, white millet, small yellow millet, and red millet. Millet is a fatty, 'dessert' seed that many people give to their parakeets as treats.The seed mix comes in smallish 9.5oz jars and has a wonderful orange-honey aroma, which humans love :) Since most of marketing a seed is to get the humans to buy it, this probably does a good job.
Interestingly, most researchers feel that parakeets have a very poor sense of smell. They primarily use their taste and sight to make decisions. Even taste isn't a powerful sense. In fact with birdseed for wild birds, you often add red pepper to it because that makes squirrels hate it but the birds don't even notice. In any case, when I give this blend to my keets they don't seem to notice. They eat it as readily as they eat other seeds, but they don't eat it more energetically.
The container doesn't say HOW they fortify this blend, but if they put vitamins on the outside, the keets shell the seeds before eating them. So unless they soak the seeds in the fortification (unlikely), then most of the vitamins end up laying on the floor of the cage.
Most of these seeds are the round kind, so if your keet loves those, they might enjoy this blend. But other than that, I don't find my keets care much one way or the other.
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