People Want to Know

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People Want to Know!

• HBD Harrisons Bird Foods

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HBD

• No added colors
• No kiddy shapes
• No artificial flavors or smells
• No fruits and vegetables

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HBD

• No soak and sprout
• No cook
• No pressed or coated seed products

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GIMMICKS SELL!!!!
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Supplements?

• NO!!!
• Unless the ones on the bag they lead to breeding

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Supplements?

• Alex is thirty on HBD
• Gets seed and nut supplements
• Still picks

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Early study showed SFS needed to breed African
grey parrots on Harrisons

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READ THE BACK OF THE BAG

• Best results

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Organic

• Organic seeds are still unbalanced
• Want organic seeds for Zoo, aviculture, finches
  or canarys? use Wild Wings

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• HBD has had Wild Wings organic seeds for 15
  years not recommended for pets!
• Exception Gray millet for renal cases

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Organic Organic
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Organic Certified?

• If not on label not -certified!!!

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HBD

• SSF from Brazil under sustainable conditions, not
  from Malaysia so not hurting orangutans
• Spirulina - no metals, no mycotoxins
• Peanuts - no mycotoxins

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No therapeutic diets?

• No research to show need
• No research to show better than Harrisons !
• Seed support AVIx

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HBD - No Food Price Increase Ever!

• Shipping has gone up
• Many other 50 cheaper a decade ago
• Now often more than Harrisons on a per pound
  basis

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Confidence through research!

• www.clinicalavianmedicine.net

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• Cholesterol and Arthero Sclerosis in
  Psittacines
• Ionised Calcium Concentrations

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• Wild Australian psittacines plasma and hepatic
  minerals and blood biochemistry

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• The Magic of Parrot Breeding...John Stoodley
  (HTML)
• Do Birds Care About the Appearance of Their Food?
• Standards in the Organic Food Industry

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Ask the Bird Guy is back!

• Click to access database of over 3000 F.A.Q.s

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People Want to Know!

• We have answers
• Customers from veterinarians and companies call
  HBD for answers

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www.harrisonsbirdfoods.com

• Handbook For A Healthier Bird -FreeQuick .pdf
  download of Harrison 's 41 page
  informational-reference booklet. A must read for
  all pet bird owners.

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Education

• AMPA one chapter a month 99 for book
• CAM
• IVIS one chapter a month

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Rancidity

• CAM page 111
• Learn to smell and taste

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Storage

• The bag is the secrete
• CAM page 113

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Samples

• HBD has free samples
• Cost less than bagging from bags just food
  alone. Sample bag, time etc extra

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POWER TREATS with ORGANIC PALM FRUIT OIL (SSF)

• AVIx CHAT

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• Indications -Dry flaky skin (beak, nails),
  balding of the feet, lack of sheen and proper
  color to feathers.-aging birds on formulated
  -African Grey Parrots, Hyacinth Macaws and Palm
  Cockatoos.

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• -Preliminary results have shown two cases of
  juvenile cataracts to have regressed.

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Pain Suffering!!!

• HBD funded studies
• All birds on seed diets tested have had
  osteodystrophy
• All birds on seeds tested have hadarthrosclerosis

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Research committee for Royal College of
Veterinary Surgeons

• Can not use a control group on seeds as is cruel!

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