Now the only excuse left for not stocking
wild bird food may be space, but I know from personal experience that space can always be made for new products a retailer wants to bring into the store.
Pet stores need to first tell customers why
their wild bird food is better, however, which can be done with an informative sign.
In fact,
wild bird food is how Kaytee originated as a company.»
One last item to offer, in terms of
wild bird food, seems to be tailor - made for pet specialty retailers — insects.
Global Harvest Foods Audubon Park Songbird Selections Audubon Park Songbird Selections is a vitamin - and mineral - enhanced line of
wild bird food created to meet the changing needs of backyard birds.
Gleason's company specializes in suet, the second most popular
wild bird food on the market.
Educating the employees will allow them to teach customers why
the wild bird food sold at the pet store is not only healthier for the birds and will attract more species, but also a better value than the cheaper mixes.
Besides a variety of
wild bird food types, feeders are a beneficial addition to the product assortment — otherwise it would be like selling parakeets but not stocking any bird cages for them to live in.
«When consumers write in to
our wild bird food company, they often use the term «my birds,»» says Gleason.
Certainly, as pet stores, we need to be sure that customers can find those premium mixes of
wild bird food easily on our shelves.
KAYTEE offers a large variety of
wild bird food, including the KAYTEE Ultra, Woodlands, and Supreme lines, to attract everything from Cardinals to Orioles to Finches.
An elite, zero - waste
wild bird food blended to attract the most desired outdoor pets and give you the cleanest feeding experience available for your outdoor living areas.
Meijer Black Oil Sunflower Seed was $ 9.99 for 10 lbs., Kaytee Nature's Harvest
Wild Bird Food was marked at $ 7.99 for 10 lbs., and Kaytee Wild Bird Peanuts were $ 12.99 for 5 lbs.
An elite, zero - waste
wild bird food blended with fruit to attract the most desired outdoor pets and give you the cleanest feeding experience.
Enjoy all the beautiful birds you'll attract with our Petco All Purpose Seed Mix
Wild Bird Food.
Premium
wild bird food brand Nature's Window has new package designs coinciding with recipe reformulations that are free of wheat and fillers for maximum nutrition and energy.
The most well - known and widely fed
wild bird food is seed, and the packaging of many premium mixes name the bird species that they attract.
Retailers that offer
wild bird food should also stock feeders, as well as the many accessories used to mount the feeders and keep away unwanted pests like squirrels — although there are feeders just for squirrels, too.
CHILTON, Wis. — Kaytee, manufacturer of pet and
wild bird food products and accessories, and the Kaytee Avian Foundation are bringing the 2009 Kaytee Avian Foundation Eco-tour to Piaui, Brazil.
Pet stores need to demonstrate to their customers that, in the long run, higher - quality
wild bird food is more valuable than the less - expensive food offered at big - box stores.
Suet is such a popular
wild bird food that companies such as Wildlife Sciences in Minnetonka, Minn., specialize in it and offer everything from suet cakes, balls and plugs in many different flavors including peanut, sunflower and even mealworms.
Pet stores should also take advantage of the many resources offered by high - end
wild bird food and product manufacturers when deciding what to offer and how to sell it to clients.
Kaytee is asking birders to submit their best wild bird photos for a chance to win a one year supply of a premium Kaytee
wild bird food blend.
High - end
wild bird food with no fillers, especially those with black oil sunflower seeds, will bring in the most species.
«While we have made a strategic decision to exit the U.S.
wild bird food business, Global Harvest stands out as a leader in the industry when it comes to the core values of quality customer service and producing the finest in seed and bird food products,» said Mike Lukemire, Scotts Miracle - Gro executive vice president, chief business operations officer.
D'Avanzo notes, «
The wild bird food category will soon evolve into the wild bird super-foods category, much like the dog / cat food category evolved into the canine / feline super-premium foods category during the past 20 years.»
Acquiring
their wild bird food business allows us to expand our retail relationships with a broader product offering while maintaining our diligent customer service and product - quality focus,» said Ed Mills, co-founder and principal of Global Harvest Foods.
For example, Prince Corporation, like a number of premium
wild bird food and product manufacturers, offers to help «guide and educate their dealers in [adding or] redesigning a wild bird department» so that a customer's «buying experience is easy and enjoyable,» says Krause.
As with dog food, the quality of
wild bird food runs the gamut.
There's also the convenience factor — the customer is already in the pet store and grabs
some wild bird food, since it's easy and saves them another stop.
Wild bird foods and feeders offered in big - box stores are often not of high quality.
They may apply the same standards to buying
wild bird foods.
Global Harvest Foods has released Audubon Park Songbird Selections NutriThrive, a vitamin - and mineral - enhanced line of
wild bird food created to meet the changing needs of backyard birds.
Cat litter, dog litter,
wild bird food, live & frozen food and oversized items may incur an additional per - item shipping & handling fee or surcharge.
Wild bird food runs the gamut from extremely cheap to premium.
In 1955, K&T led the industry with the first commercially produced
wild bird food.
It is a serious shift in thought, and one that pet stores should certainly tap into when considering whether to stock
wild bird food and other items, such as feeders.
Wild Bird Food Wildlife Sciences Suet Design Series Wildlife Sciences» new Suet Design Series of feeders and Feedies are fun feeders with unique designs, including Lady Bugs, Apples, Butterflies and Tulips, made of durable extruded plastic.
Hanging high - quality and durable bird feeders that can not be found in big - box stores above
the wild bird food section can also drive add - on sales, as feeding wild birds can be a bit addictive.
Not exact matches
The provision of structures providing
food and shelter, and the lack of pesticide use, attract new or re-colonizing species to the organic area (both permanent and migratory), including
wild flora and fauna (e.g.
birds) and organisms beneficial to the organic system such as pollinators and pest predators.
«Not only are these insects vital as pollinators of crops and
wild plants, but they also provide
food for many
birds and mammals,» said joint lead researcher Dr Ros Shaw, also of the University of Exeter.
Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for
food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers.
In China, the team visited
food markets where a wide variety of
wild birds were on sale.
But the United Nations»
Food and Agriculture Organization says there is no evidence tying outbreaks in poultry to
wild birds.
According to
bird - welfare researcher Bas Rodenburg of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the best explanation is that they've evolved to peck for
food in the
wild, and this need is not satisfied on the farm.
The low intensity amber light was shown to inhibit, rather than induce, flowering in greater
bird's foot trefoil, a
wild relative of peas and beans that is a key source of
food for the pea aphid in grasslands and road verges.
The researchers trained
wild - caught
birds to receive a
food reward by distinguishing between a pair of lamps, one flickering and one shining a constant light.
Although this
bird is extinct in the
wild, almost all of the captive adults and nearly half of the captive juveniles the scientists tested used sticks and other objects to retrieve
food from hidden locales, often altering the tool materials to do so.
These South Pacific
birds build tools out of twigs and leaves that they use to root out
food, and they're the only non-humans that make hooked tools in the
wild, write the authors of a study published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters.