A budgie's beak is smaller and less forceful than a parrot's, which is why a seed mix built specifically for them tends to favour softer, easier-to-crack seeds rather than the tougher, larger ones a bigger bird could manage.

This one is Johnston & Jeff's Budgerigar Seed: roughly half canary seed by weight, blended with white millet, panicum millet and red millet, plus vegetable oil. Johnston & Jeff describe it as balancing a high-protein canary seed base with soft white millet and small, easily digestible panicum millets that carry more carbohydrate. It's sold in a 1KG bag.

• 1KG bag
• Around 50% canary seed
• White millet, panicum millet, red millet, vegetable oil
• Panicum millet included for easy digestibility

What's left off the pack. No protein, fat or fibre percentage is published for this mix, and no feeding rate either — a budgie's seed dish is normally kept topped up rather than measured, but this pack doesn't carry a precise analysis if you want one.

Who it's for: budgerigar owners who want a mix built around named seed types in known proportions rather than an unlabelled generic blend.