Millet is a very popular form of cereal seed. It can be recognized by a round shape. It is sometimes sold as loose seeds or as a spray. Many birds prefer to eat the millet spray because this is how they would find it in the wild. It is important that millet never compose more than fifty percent of the bird s diet.
Oats are also part of the cereal family, the oats are easy to digest and increase the metabolism.
There are some other forms of diets that are popular in pet stores. There is the pelleted diet, that can resemble pellets you might feed to your guinea pig, or even colorful pellets that look like sugar cereal. Pelleted diets have an advantage because in seed diets many birds will pick out the seeds they really like and not eat the entire diet. Many pelleted diets are fortified with vitamins and they tend to like them a lot better. An extruded diet is similar to a pellet diet in that it provides all the necessary nutrients , the only difference is texture, extruded diets tend to have a texture like crunchy food.