Johnson's Treat 2 Eat Seed Bell with Honey – Bird Treat

Johnson's Treat 2 Eat Seed Bell with Honey

A 34g bell of mixed seed bound with honey, hung in the cage for a budgie or a parakeet to work at. The appeal is not really the seed — a caged bird already has seed in its dish — it is that the bell is hard, fixed in place and has to be attacked from an awkward angle, which occupies a bird that otherwise has very little to do all day.

Johnson's publish almost nothing about what goes into it beyond selected seeds and honey, so this page says that rather than filling the gap with figures from somewhere else. Treat it as an enrichment item and an occasional reward, not as part of the daily ration.

Performance & Benefits

• 34g bell of seed bound with honey, sized for budgies and parakeets.
• Hangs in the cage, so the bird has to brace and work at it rather than scoop from a dish.
• Slows feeding right down, which is the main reason to give one.
• The honey binding holds the bell together as it is eaten, instead of shedding loose seed into the tray.
• A useful way to keep a single caged bird occupied while its cage is cleaned around it.

Suitable For

• Budgies and parakeets, the species Johnson's name for it.
• Other small cage birds of similar size that take mixed seed.
• Cage enrichment and occasional rewarding.
• Aviary birds, hung where droppings from a perch above cannot reach it.
• Not a replacement for a balanced daily diet, and not a poultry or wild bird product — Nature's Grub Fruit & Berry Treat Mix is the scatter treat for a garden flock.

Feeding

• Hang it in the cage, clear of perches, and let the bird find it.
• Offer it as an occasional treat alongside the normal daily diet, not instead of it.
• Johnson's publish no feeding frequency or quantity for these bells, so none is stated here.
• Take out anything left if it goes damp or soiled, and keep fresh water available.

Composition & Analysis

• Johnson's declare only that it is made with selected seeds and enriched with honey. They publish no ingredient list.
• No analytical constituents are published — no protein, oil, fibre or ash figure — so none is stated here.
• Each bell weighs 34g.
• Johnson's publish no detail of the hanging fitting supplied with the bell.

Care & Caution

• Seed bound with honey is energy dense. Budgies put on weight very easily and obesity is a common cause of illness in caged birds, so keep these genuinely occasional.
• Take the hanging fitting out of the cage once the bell has been eaten down, so the bird does not start chewing at it.