Kaytee Exact Handfeeding - Baby Bird 18 oz, Instant Formula

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars | 4,804 ratings

Price: 15.95

Last update: 09-02-2024


About this item

Balanced High-Nutrient Formula Helps Babies Grow Faster, Wean Earlier And Develop Stronger, Brighter Plumage.
Contains Probiotics To Encourage A Healthy Population Of Intestinal Microorganisms.
Digestive Enzymes Are Included To Ensure Adequate Digestion Of Carbohydrates And Proteins. These Enzymes Offer A Particular Value To A Newly Hatched Baby Or In A Bird Experiencing Digestive Difficulties.
Exact Hand Feeding Formula Has Compatible Tastes And Ingredients With Exact Conversion And Exact Adult Daily Diets To Help Reduce Digestive Upsets During Weaning
This Product Is Formulated For Use With: Baby Parrots (Including Parakeets, Lovebirds, Cockatiels, Conures, Cockatoos, Macaws, Amazons, African Greys, And Other Psittacines) & Baby Passerines.

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Top reviews from the United States

Gale Burke
5.0 out of 5 stars This formula helped me feed and release baby back into the wild!
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2024
Great product
Lori Bonner
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for baby birds except insectivores.
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2024
I have been using this product for a few years now. I work with a pigeon rescue and this miracle mix has saved many lives. I keep it in the freezer so this bag lasts a long time. I take out about one week's worth of food when I have a baby to feed. You just add water and mix. Once it is the consistency of applesauce, you're good to go. I don't heat the water for the older babies, but for the younger ones, it says to add warm water. PLEASE BE CAREFUL - check the water temperature carefully. NOT HOT water, just slightly warm so the chill doesn't upset the baby bird's stomach. Hot water can burn their throats and even kill them. Please don't use hot water. Just "not cold" is sufficient.
robert sans
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality product made with excellent ingredients
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024
I love the convenience of having the product delivered to me quickly and is still cheaper than buying it at the pet store. My love birds babies and Quaker parrot babies love it. They have grown up on it. I love the vitamins and ingredients that this formula contains. I highly recommend.
Adriana R Mejia
5.0 out of 5 stars Bird food
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
My mother is raising a lil parrot and this food was recommend for it. The bird seems to like it and she said it's easy to prepare and feed
Billie
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2024
My baby birds really loved this stuff, healthy, and very nutritious for them. I highly recommend this if you have baby cockatiel's
Margaret
4.0 out of 5 stars Ok
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2024
Worked for me
Joann
5.0 out of 5 stars It saved my baby bird!
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2024
Smell like some usual bird foods, no odors. My parakeet baby was abandoned by its parents, they’re not feeding him, so I brought this and try to hand feed for the first time, just follow the instructions!
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Joann
5.0 out of 5 stars It saved my baby bird!
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2024
Smell like some usual bird foods, no odors. My parakeet baby was abandoned by its parents, they’re not feeding him, so I brought this and try to hand feed for the first time, just follow the instructions!
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Lynn
5.0 out of 5 stars Best out of a few brands I've compared it to for an underweight older parrot
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2020
To understand why Kaytee Exact turned out to be the perfect hand-feeding formula for sustaining my underweight older parrot with digestive issues, I'll preface my review by describing how I'm hand-feeding her. I haven't dared to try using the crop needle method to deliver formula straight into her crop because I don't have experience or training with this method. Instead, using a syringe, I "apply" the formula (which I mix into a mud-like consistency), like toothpaste, to the side of her beak where her upper and lower beak meet. That way the formula slowly slides right in when she opens her beak, and she can anticipate it going in, instead of squirting it straight into her mouth which risks surprising her.

Kaytee Exact hand-feeding formula is perfect when using my hand-feeding method because it's easy to get the consistency just right for this. The amount of water I mix in is perfect for her too, because during this episode of digestive difficulties, she wasn't drinking enough water to stay properly hydrated.

For the sake of comparison, I found Morning Bird's First Formula, to be very sticky (like honey) when prepared. And to get a thick consistency, I've found that you're better off using hardly any water. What concerned me most about this formula though is that, during the duration of time I tried this formula, it seemed responsible for tinting her urates yellow or pink. I've contacted the company to see if any other customers have reported this and asked, under these circumstances , if it is safe to use. However, it's been over a week and their customer service has not responded to me.

Tropican hand-feeding formula also sounded good initially as, one of their claims, is that this formula won't stick to feathers. Upon using it, however, I found that I had to use a lot more water than formula to get the right consistency, and even then the texture was more crumbly so that it was hard to get this formula into my bird's mouth using my technique (finding that I had to poke it in between her beak with a small spoon or the blunt end of a toothpick). This formula might otherwise be great for others who aren't using my technique.

So after trying those brands, I returned to using Kaytee for good. Finally, I think the nutrient mix in Kaytee has helped resolve some other possible nutrient deficiencies my parrot has (which my avian veterinarian wasn't able to fully address), as her occasional dry sneezing has ceased (which probably points to her need for more vitamin A), and the probiotics in this formula has helped her digestion. She doesn't strain to poop, and her poops look much healthier now than they had looked in more recent years.

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