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| How do I know what's in Lake's Ultimate Avian Diets? |
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In compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and AAFCO directives, all ingredients used in each Lake's diet, are listed in descending order of predominance by weight. In other words, the ingredient with the highest inclusion rate in the bird food formula is first, the second listed next, etc. All the ingredients used are "dry" so after processing, the bird food still contains proportional amounts, as shown on the ingredient listing. With Lake's Ultimate Avian Diets, what you see is what your bird gets. We trust you to make an informed choice. Because when your bird's health is at stake, Lake's is your only choice.
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| Lake's Manufacturing Process |
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We start by grinding our corn and wheat, then we slowly mix in all our other dry ingredients. Its nutritionally best, to derive ingredients from their whole source, when possible.
Then this dry granular mixture is sent to the pelleting machine where its densely compressed at about 180 degrees. Remember, if an ingredient is not contaminated to begin with, there should be no reason to have to pasteurize a product at 300+ degrees, which can destroy valuable nutrients and enzymes.
After the pellet is made, it is then packaged and shipped, unless we're making our hand-rearing formula. Being a parent bird regurgitates its food to the young, we wanted a diet that would be the "same" for both, reducing the stress of diet change. After we manufacture our 17% protein pelleted diet, we then grind up the pellets in a huge hammer mill, to a consistency slightly coarser than flour. The pellet is excellent for the adults, even when they feed their young, but to coarse to fit through most feeding syringes. We do this extra grind, to enable us to start with whole grains. A coffee grinder will also work, to make Lake's hand-rearing using the Special Needs pellets.
Because all our ingredients are combined before its pelleted, there is no need to add anything to the outside of the morsel. In the expanded processes, a process where cooked ingredients are extruded/expanded with air (like hard sponges), additional vitamins are sprayed on the outside to compensate for loss of nutrients at high manufacturing temperatures. When the Lake's pellet is made its done and packaged.
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| What is the advantage of using a manufactured diet? |
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There are many advantages in using a high quality manufactured diet. Some of these advantages include:
In a traditional seed diet, a bird can pick and choose what they want. When using a seed diet, a bird will tend to choose only the seeds it likes. The problem with this, is that a bird does not always choose what is best for them. Furthermore, their is not one perfect food source, if a bird consumes only one or two kinds of seeds they will not receive all the nutrients they need. Manufactured diets eliminate the guesswork by providing birds a balanced diet in every bite.
In addition to this, manufactured diets are 100% edible. They provide the only sure method of supplying vitamins and minerals in quantities considered to be proper for caged birds.
Breeders will agree, that feeding a high quality bird diet produces a greater number of fertile eggs. From these eggs a larger percentage of birds will grow to maturity and live a healthier life.
Although there are many more advantages to a pelleted diet, the one that most bird owners like, is that they are convenient, and cause less mess than a seed diet.
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