Hagen Pigeon & Dove Seed, Nutritionally Complete Bird Food, original version, 6 Pound (Pack of 1) (B2704)

Works like a charm!
Our back yard was pretty much a desert because we have yet to add grass and plants to it. We never get any birds at all, and we love birds. I got this without raising my hopes too high but I was so surprised at how quick the birds came to eat from it. We had 3 species of birds at least. The food particles are small enough for tiny birds like the one you see in my video, and the color is a yellow-ish beige and has no real distinct smell aside from it smelling like how every other grain smells (nothing specific but it’s not bad smelling, it’s just grainy smell lol). It’s very durable because it rained today all day but it held up its texture and shape, but it’s soft enough to be eaten by birds because I see them munching away so I know it’s not too hard for them. 100% recommend it, this stuff works like magic at attracting birds.

Amazing. They can’t get enough
Even our wild rabbit resident loves this stuff. We’re feeling like Snow White. They can’t get enough!

I love the bird food, but the package should be secured of any punctured…
I love it BUT it arrived with a punctured hole :CC I can’t bring it upstairs…

The pidgies (and wrens) love it!
I absolutely love pigeons, and there are several places near where I live where they tend to gather. I don’t dump a ton of seed all at once, but locate a flock nearby and start scattering small amounts. All it takes is one bird to notice and come over; then they all do. They love the various seeds in this mixture, and so do the neighborhood wrens, who also come to feed.I keep a couple of 8 oz screw-lid containers in my purse so I’m prepared whenever I encounter hungry pidges!Bread should not be fed to birds, as it has no nutrition in it and doesn’t help them stay healthy. This seed mixture, however, is perfect! I just ordered my second bag.

I feed the same 7 Mourning Doves and the same 8 Pigeons daily. I was using chopped peanuts, sunflower seed and wild bird mix. I decided to try this specific food. The enthusiasm from my 15 friends has been really encouraging to watch. The important thing is, first and foremost, they eat very quickly and throughly, don’t have trouble picking any of it up and having to take too much time, which makes them vulnerable to the Hawks. Secondly, they are looking much much better since I introduced this seed to their diet. I believe that the fortification of the seed, both in nutrition and insect control, has been an incredible assist to the birds, who often deal with difficult living conditions and have eaten contaminated things to survive (like the effects of lead poisoning, which pigeons often contract in urban/suburban areas) leaving them deficient at best. The birds feathers are much nicer, their sheen is easily twice what it was, they also seem to clean their feathers and arrange/rearrange their filling crops more quickly. I have seen that some people felt the flattened corn addition was negative, but my experience has been the opposite. They never leave any; the technique I see the Pigeons use is picking up the flattened kernel, clipping it in their beak, eating the portion in their mouth, picking it up again, repeat. Two of them always scan through their portion to eat the ‘corn biscuit’ first, but none of them dislike it. We (the writer of this review and my cooing friends) cannot recommend Hagen Pigeon and Dove Staple enough. Very reasonable price for food that’s just excellent.

All the little birds around here(finches, chickadees etc) LOVE this stuff. It is a bit messy, but nothing a broom can’t handle in cleaning up. I gave it 4 stars as I do feel it’s over priced for the size of the bag and will probably go pick up larger bags of something else at a local store as the birds here will eat thru an entire back in about 3 days max lol.

This food worked well for our dove. Always bought the food