My bird’s diet consists of:
Cooked mix containing:
Broken sugar beans, broken peas (rondo, maple, green, yellow), split peas (green and yellow), coarse maize grit, wheat, oats, sweet sorghum, lentils and mung beans (china peas). 1000g
Nutripro - aviary rusk 175g with spirulina, vitamin, minerals and very little calcium mixed in.
I mix cooked mix with nutripro and then take 1cup for the budgies to which I add 25g millet.
To the balance I add stripe sunflower 100g and give 1 cup mix to each pair of suns or irn. On top of this is added 250g chopped fresh fruit or veggies shared between all. Sometimes I give 6-8 peanuts (shelled) and 6-8 fruit parrot puffs to each pair about 2 times a week. On top of the food they may also find dried fruit or chilies or some nutty mix snack.

For the pairs with babies I give them a separate dish of pronutro which is a human cereal instant porridge mixed with water not milk.

They feed babies regurgitated food which looks soft and small like hand feeding formula. These babies had what looked like small maize grit in the crops instead of the soft stuff. It is somthing that is quite ok in an older babies but not in thes new babies. I also dont feed too much apple when they have babies as they then feed too much apple and not enough of other stuff which causes devolopement problems.

Angie, I am so sorry for the loss of your babies and Kitty. I hope the remaining baby continues to thrive. My thoughts and prayers are with you for better days.

Thank you for explaining that Angie. So, the parents can control the consistency of the food they regurgitate for the babies? Like, the longer it stays in their crop, the thinner it gets? I really don't know much about this.

Ah, Angie, I am sorry. I didnt know it was possible for a parent to feed wrong. Thank you for explaining that.
hugs coming from a small town in the USA for you!

Thanks for the hugs, has been a bad start of the week.
It is amazing how God designed a parent's crop to give just what the baby needs. It is most evident in budgies when babies can be almost weaned and only halfway in the same nest. I dont know what order the babies get fed in but at the same meal one baby can have budgie milk food and another you can see almost whole seeds etc. I dont usually see big food in the suns because I take them for handfeeding at 4 weeks which is about halfway to weaning.

That's amazing! I had no idea...I just assumed it was all the same consistency! That makes perfect sense. Now I'm interested in how exactly they do it!

I dont know how is is done, none of my sun pairs are tame enough for me to watch them feeding babies I only get to hear what is going on. It is even hard to watch budgies feeding babies, they stop and investigate if someone approaches the box. I would think there needs to be a camera in the box but a sun would make short work of anything chewable.