An Interesting Observation About Grit - Page 7

07-30-2008, 08:55 PM

I'm not familiar with Abba - the mineral mix [not the musical group]

I will look around. I hope I can find it. Thanks for the photo & all the info & personal experiences everyone.

07-31-2008, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Hayabusa

How's this stuff look. Seems to have many of the same ingredients as the ABBA grit. Can’t seem to locate anyone locally who carries the ABBA brand.

Kaytee Hi Cal Grit - Health Care - PetSmart

I stopped by the pet store tonight and looked at the Kaytee in the link above. The stuff for the smaller birds (ie, Budgies, Canaries, Etc) looked pretty big in size and sharped edged to me. Maybe it's like the ABBA stuff and breaks apart easily when they chomp on it. The jar has a seal on it so I couldn't feel it with my fingers to see how soft it was.

Does anyone use the Kaytee brand grit like in the link?

07-31-2008, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by CatsChair

Not sure what kind I have -- my finches and canaries go nuts over it, some of the budgies eat it and some don't; tiels and ringies are not at all interested. Since most of my birds are rehomed, I don't know what they used to think was "normal". After the novelty wears off, they don't eat much of it, but someone will be chomping every day or two.

I think they know when they've had enough, and once "full" they back off on eating it and just eat enough to keep the gizzard at the right level of grit. I only offer Pogo & Ziggy grit once every 2 or 3 weeks and they go nuts for a couple of minutes and then stop eating it when they seem to have had enough.

07-31-2008, 06:28 AM

The difference is that the Kaytee's is mostly made of granite while ABBA's is mostly made of shells (even egg-shells) with some sand in it. ABBA's also has more minerals than Kaytee's. As to texture, ABBA's is like flakes and Kaytee's is more like gravel... kind of like granules.