Lafeber Company

Our Story

Lafeber Company was built by a father-son team of veterinarians with a shared love of  animals and a special passion for birds. Dr. T.J. Lafeber developed the  very first commercial bird food pellet in the back room of his  veterinary clinic in the early 1970s. Today, our recipes are developed  by his son, Dr. Ted Lafeber, III, along with top veterinarians and  nutritionists.

Our manufacturing facility has always been located  on the Lafeber family farmland, and all of our products are mixed,  formed and packaged under one roof. Staying true to our motto —“Caring and working for the health of animals” — we created Veterinary Resources to offer exotic animal veterinarians  an every-growing library of vet-written articles, client education  materials and videos. Helping Animals is our online networking community  dedicated to nourishing and protecting animals and their worlds near  and far. Pet Birds and Small Mammals are dedicated to pet owners and  offers a wide variety of information on their beloved pets.

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  • Lafeber Avi-Cakes Large Parrot Food 12 Oz

    There’s a reason Amazons and African greys and other parrots like seed; it gives their beak something to do. Seed might be fun, but seed alone doesn’t offer complete nutrition. That’s why we collaborated with top avian veterinarians, nutritionists and behavioral consultants to create a recipe that gives your bird the best of both worlds — taste and texture and solid nutrition, too.

    Avi-Cakes blends 50-percent premium seeds with 50-percent nutritionally balanced pellets made from non-GMO ingredients, all held together with a great-tasting molasses binder. Its square shape is the perfect “work-and-chew-food” for your parrot to hold, pull, twist and crunch to bring out his foraging instincts. Your bird might pick and choose his way through a loose seed mix, but he’ll tear into Avi-Cakes and consume better nutrition along the way. Avi-Cake nutrition matches that of most pelleted diets and can be fed as a main meal. It is also an ideal “bridge” food to wean your parrot off of seeds and onto pellets, as many parrots start to eat pellets after eating Avi-Cakes.

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  • Lafeber Avi-Cakes Macaw & Cockatoo Food 16 Oz

    Parrots have incredible beak abilities; just look at the way your macaw or cockatoo can take a chunk out of your finest furniture and, moments later, take the hull off of a tiny seed. A parrot’s curiosity is often driven by the quest for different tastes and textures, so why not give your bird something he can really sink his beak into?

    Avi-Cakes is a blend of 50-percent premium seeds and 50-percent nutritionally balanced pellets made with non-GMO ingredients and held together with a great-tasting molasses binder. Its square shape is designed as the perfect “work-and-chew-food” for your macaw or cockatoo to hold, pull, twist and crunch to bring out his foraging instincts. Your parrot might pick and choose his way through a loose seed mix, but he’ll tear into Avi-Cakes and consume better nutrition along the way. Avi-Cake nutrition matches that of most pelleted diets and can be fed as a main meal. It is also an ideal “bridge” food to wean your parrot off of seeds and onto pellets, as many parrots start to eat pellets after eating Avi-Cakes.

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  • Lafeber Avi-Cakes Parakeet, Cockatiels, Lovebird and Conure 8 Oz

    Looking for a fun, easy way to get your parakeet, lovebird, cockatiel, conure or other small bird off of a mostly seed diet and onto a nutritious food he’ll love? Avi-Cakes were made with your bird in mind! We collaborated with top avian veterinarians, nutritionists and behavioral consultants to create a recipe that gives your bird the best of both worlds — taste and texture and solid nutrition, too.

    Avi-Cakes is a special blend of premium seeds mixed 50-50 with nutritionally balanced pellets made from non-GMO ingredients, all held together with a great-tasting molasses binder. Its square shape is designed for your bird to hold and pull part — the perfect “work-and-chew-food” to bring out foraging instincts. Your bird might pick and choose his way through a loose seed mix, but he’ll pull, stretch, crunch and twist his way through Avi-Cakes and consume better nutrition along the way.

    Avi-Cake nutrition matches that of most pelleted diets, so it can be fed as a main diet. It also makes the perfect “bridge” food to wean your bird off of seeds and onto pellets, which small birds are especially likely to resist. Avi-Cakes has 50% pellets, so many birds will eat pellets after eating Avi-Cakes.

    Our foods are Omega 3 & 6 balanced to promote a healthy immune system and improve skin and feather quality, and they are naturally preserved and flavored. All the seeds and grains in Avi-Cakes are hand-inspected for cleanliness and freshness. Our equipment has been specially designed for just making bird food. We make small batches of food to ensure the best quality possible. Each batch is laboratory tested. Finally, each Avi-Cake is hand-packed. It takes a lot of work to make a great product, but we believe the results are worth it!

    “Work ‘n Chew”™ food

    • Nutritionally complete
    • Omega 3 & 6 balanced
    • Excellent foraging food
    • Naturally preserved
    • Naturally flavored
    • Non-GMO formula
    • Great meal or treat
    • Excellent conversion food
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  • Lafeber El Paso Nutri-Berries Parrot Food

    Add a little spice to your bird’s life with El Paso Nutri-Berries! They are made with taste-grabbing ingredients like red and green bell peppers and seasoned with chili powder, cumin, garlic, oregano and other exotic spices that your bird is sure to go wild over! El Paso Nutri-Berries are a nutritionally complete food designed to cater to your bird’s foraging instincts and excite his taste buds. We believe your bird’s food can be both exciting and nutritious. Your feathered friend will love holding, pulling and tearing at each berry.

    Instead of grinding down the ingredients into a pelleted form, the ingredients in El Paso Nutri-Berries are left mostly whole to give your bird zesty flavors and textures pelleted diets lack. And, unlike vitamin- and mineral-fortified seed mixes that lose their health benefits once the bird cracks open the seed, Nutri-Berries are made with hulled seeds and grains. Each berrie is then coated with essential vitamins and minerals to ensure that your bird receives balanced nutrition in each bite.

    • Made with red and green bell peppers and seasoned with chili powder, cumin, garlic, oregano and other exotic spices
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  • Lafeber Garden Veggie Nutri-Berries Parrot Food

    Garden Veggie Nutri-Berries contain all the essential vitamins and minerals pet birds need along with carrots, peas, broccoli and corn, making them the perfect way to get your feathered friend to eat his veggies, and they contain 20% pellets, too!

    Like a pelleted diet, Garden Veggie Nutri-Berries are a nutritionally complete food. Unlike pellets, in which all the ingredients are ground down and formed into a pellet, the ingredients in Nutri-Berries are left mostly whole. We hull our seeds and grains and then coat each berrie with essential vitamins and minerals to keep the nutrition in each bite. A seed mix might be vitamin and mineral fortified, but the health benefits are lost as soon as the bird cracks the seed and leaves the empty seed hulls in the food bowl.

    Garden Veggie Nutri-Berries are Omega 3 & 6 balanced which boosts immune function and improves the quality of the skin, and they are free of artificial colors and preservatives. Offer Garden Veggie Nutri-Berries whole to your Amazon, African grey, macaw or cockatoo, or break them into smaller pieces for your cockatiel, caique, conure, Senegal, Meyer’s, quaker or other small parrot to enjoy in the bowl or foraging area.

    • Offers real pieces carrots, peas, broccoli, and corn
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  • Lafeber Nutri-Berries Cockatiel Food

    Let’s be honest; cockatiels can be stubborn seedeaters. While we know pellets are hands-down a healthier diet, many cockatiels ignore them. Who can blame them? Pellets offer balanced nutrition but little in the way of taste or texture. Before you reach for another bag of seed, drop a few Cockatiel Nutri-Berries in your bird’s bowl or foraging area. Chances are he’ll find the crunchy whole grains and hulled seeds irresistible. You’ll be relieved to know that your cockatiel finally likes a nutritionally balanced diet, complete with stabilized vitamins, chelated minerals and amino acids.

    The Lafeber difference is in the hulling. A seed mix might be coated with vitamin and minerals, but as soon as the bird cracks the seed, the nutrition is lost along with the empty seed hull. By hulling the seed and grains and then adding essential vitamins and minerals, Nutri-Berries keeps the nutrition right where it belongs — in each and every bite. Cockatiel Nutri-Berries also add 8% pellets to the taste and texture mix, and they are sized to appeal to cockatiels, as well as quaker parrots, Indian ringnecks, Neomphemas and other small birds.

    Classic Nutri-Berries are nutritionally balanced like pellets, just not ground up. Both pellets and Nutri-Berries contain seeds and grains. In pellets, they are finely ground before being formed into a pellet. Most of the seeds and grains in Nutri-Berries are kept whole because Dr. Lafeber discovered how to nutritionally balance them without grinding them down, leaving the taste and textures in a more natural form that birds find appealing. We also balance the omega 3 & 6 fatty acids to boost your bird’s immune system and to promote healthy skin and feathers. Our foods are naturally preserved and free of artificial colors, so you can feel good about offering them to your cockatiel or other small- to medium-sized bird.

    • Exceptional high rate of birds’ acceptability compared to regular pellets
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  • Lafeber Nutri-Berries Conure Food 10 Oz

    What you put in your conure’s food bowl might be met with a rebel yell, if it is not to his liking. These foodies love texture, which is why he’s inclined to pick out all the seeds and ignore the more nutritionally complete pellets in a mix. Fortunately, Conure Nutri-Berries were designed with your bird’s craving for taste and texture in mind. Conure Nutri-Berries offer the crunching sensation birds love without sacrificing balanced nutrition.

    The Lafeber difference is in the hulling. A seed mix might be coated with vitamin and minerals, but as soon as the bird cracks the seed, the nutrition is lost along with the empty seed hull. By hulling the seed and grains and then adding essential vitamins and minerals, Nutri-Berries keep the nutrition in each bite. Conure Nutri-Berries also add 20% pellets to the taste and texture mix, and they are sized just right for your conure, caique, Senegal, Meyer’s or other small- to medium-parrot to hold and pull apart to eat; a simple yet effective way to promote foot health, as well as work his tongue and beak.

    Classic Nutri-Berries are nutritionally balanced like pellets, just not ground up. Both pellets and Nutri-Berries contain seeds and grains. In pellets, they are finely ground before being formed into a pellet. Most of the seeds and grains in Nutri-Berries are kept whole because Dr. Lafeber discovered how to nutritionally balance them without grinding, and hulling them keeps the nutrition right where it belongs — in each and every bite. We also balance the omega 3 & 6 fatty acids to boost your bird’s immune system and to promote healthy skin and feathers. Our foods are naturally preserved and free of artificial colors, so you can feel good about offering them to your cockatiel or other small- to medium-sized bird.

    • Exceptional high rate of birds’ acceptability compared to regular pellets
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  • Lafeber Nutri-Berries Macaw/Cockatoo Food

    You know the way your macaw holds a walnut in his foot and relishes each bite he takes? Or how your cockatoo waves her favorite treat around in her foot, as if showing it off for all to see? Imagine seeing your bird this happy over a nutritionally balanced food you can offer as a main diet or as a healthy treat. Macaw & Cockatoo Nutri-Berries are sized right to give your large bird something he can really sink his beak into. The round, textured berry shape is designed for your parrot to hold and pull apart to eat; a simple yet effective way to promote foot health and to offer a variety of beak and tongue sensations vital to his behavioral needs.

    The Lafeber difference is that we’ve perfected a way to nutritionally balance our foods without sacrificing taste and texture the way regular pellets do. Macaw & Cockatoo Nutri-Berries have all the essential vitamins and minerals, but instead of being ground up and put into a pellet form, the hulled seeds and grains are left whole. Macaw & Cockatoo Nutri-Berries also contain 16.5% pellets bound together with wholesome ingredients, and they are coated with chelated minerals for better absorption and stabilized vitamins for better longevity.

    Most of the seeds and grains in Nutri-Berries are kept whole because Dr. Lafeber discovered how to nutritionally balance them without grinding, and hulling them keeps the nutrition right where it belongs — in each and every bite. We also balance the omega 3 & 6 fatty acids to boost your bird’s immune system and to promote healthy skin and feathers. Our foods are naturally preserved and free of artificial colors, so you can feel good about offering them to your parrot.

    • Exceptional high rate of birds’ acceptability compared to regular pellets
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  • Lafeber Nutri-Berries Parakeet Food

    Parakeets (budgies), lovebirds and parrotlets might be small, but they can certainly have big appetites. Unfortunately, small birds are often fed a mostly seed diet, which is not only nutritionally deficient, it deprives these adventurous eaters the variety of beak and tongue sensations vital to their behavioral needs. We created Parakeet Nutri-Berries to offer the best of both worlds — balanced nutrition in a fun-to-eat form and full of flavor.

    The Lafeber difference is in the hulling. Even if a seed mix is coated with vitamin and minerals, as soon as the bird cracks the seed, the nutrition is lost along with the empty seed hull. By hulling the seeds and grains, and then coating them with stabilized vitamins, chelated minerals and amino acids, your bird receives the balanced nutrition essential to good health in each bite. Parakeet Nutri-Berries are omega 3 & 6 fatty acid balanced to promote healthy skin and feathers and they also include 10% pellets. Your bird will love that Parakeet Nutri-Berries serve up savory peanuts, hulled canary seed, cracked corn and more. You’ll love that they are nutritionally balanced like a pelleted diet but, unlike pellets, small birds find the Nutri-Berry shape and texture irresistible.

    Classic Nutri-Berries are nutritionally balanced like pellets, just not ground up. Like pellets, Nutri-Berries contain seeds and grains. In pellets, however, they are ground into a fine powder and then formed into a pellet. Most of the seeds and grains in Nutri-Berries are kept whole because Dr. Lafeber discovered how to nutritionally balance them without grinding. We naturally preserve our foods and like all our foods, Parakeet Nutri-Berries are free of artificial colors, so you can feel good about offering them to your bird, either as a complete meal or as a healthy treat.

    • Exceptional high rate of birds’ acceptability compared to regular pellets
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  • Lafeber Nutri-Berries Parrot Food

    Amazon parrots, African greys, Pionus and other birds can be easy to read when it comes to food preferences. They might screech with delight, do a happy perch dance or eye pin when offered a favorite food. The challenge is that parrots don’t always show this enthusiasm when it comes to healthy selections — when was the last time your bird got excited about a bowl full of pellets? Pellets offer complete nutrition but not much in the way of taste or texture. That is why we created Parrot Nutri-Berries, to offer the best of both worlds — balanced nutrition that is fun to eat and full of flavor. We also believe that parrots should play with their food. Nutri-Berries have a round, textured berry shape that is perfect for your parrot to hold and pull apart to eat; a simple yet effective way to promote foot health, as well as work his tongue and beak.

    We’ve perfected a way to nutritionally balance our foods without sacrificing taste or texture the way regular pellets do. The Lafeber difference is in the hulling. The seeds and grains in Nutri-Berries are hulled first, and then coated with stabilized vitamins, chelated minerals and amino acids, which keeps the nutrition right where it belongs —in each and every bite. Parrot Nutri-Berries also contain 16.5% pellets bound together with wholesome ingredients, and they offer balanced omega 3 & 6 essential fatty acids to boost your bird’s immune system and to promote healthy skin and feathers. Our foods are naturally preserved and free of artificial colors, so you can feel good about offering them to your parrot.

    • Exceptional high rate of birds’ acceptability compared to regular pellets
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  • Lafeber Nutri-Berries Parrot Food 14 Lb
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    Lafeber Nutri-Berries Parrot Food 14 Lb

    Amazon parrots, African greys, Pionus and other birds can be easy to read when it comes to food preferences. They might screech with delight, do a happy perch dance or eye pin when offered a favorite food. The challenge is that parrots don’t always show this enthusiasm when it comes to healthy selections — when was the last time your bird got excited about a bowl full of pellets? Pellets offer complete nutrition but not much in the way of taste or texture. That is why we created Parrot Nutri-Berries, to offer the best of both worlds — balanced nutrition that is fun to eat and full of flavor. We also believe that parrots should play with their food. Nutri-Berries have a round, textured berry shape that is perfect for your parrot to hold and pull apart to eat; a simple yet effective way to promote foot health, as well as work his tongue and beak.

    We’ve perfected a way to nutritionally balance our foods without sacrificing taste or texture the way regular pellets do. The Lafeber difference is in the hulling. The seeds and grains in Nutri-Berries are hulled first, and then coated with stabilized vitamins, chelated minerals and amino acids, which keeps the nutrition right where it belongs —in each and every bite. Parrot Nutri-Berries also contain 16.5% pellets bound together with wholesome ingredients, and they offer balanced omega 3 & 6 essential fatty acids to boost your bird’s immune system and to promote healthy skin and feathers. Our foods are naturally preserved and free of artificial colors, so you can feel good about offering them to your parrot.

    • Exceptional high rate of birds’ acceptability compared to regular pellets
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  • Lafeber Pellet-Berries for Cockatiels 10 Oz

    Many cockatiel owners are frustrated by the fact their birds will readily eat seed but look at a pellet like it is anything but edible. Who can blame them; most pellets taste like they look — bland! Your bird might ignore regular pelleted diets, but Pellet-Berries are sure to get his attention.

    Pellet-Berries have a look, taste and feel that appeal to birds. The round, berry shape offers a mix of whole cranberries, dates, apricots and natural grains along with a heavy serving of nutritionally balanced pellets so your bird can have enriching tastes and solid nutrition, too! These special berries are sized for your cockatiel, lovebird, conure, caique, quaker parrot or other small bird to hold and pull apart. Your bird will savor the satisfaction of using his beak and tongue to pick apart each berry — a more exciting way of eating than simply crumbling up a regular pellet.

    • 81% Pellets + 19% Individual Fruits & Grains = 100% Enriched Nutrition
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