The Specialists
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Roudybush, Inc.
manufactures specialized bird foods. This
manufacturing is a result of the research by an
avian nutritionist,
Tom
Roudybush. During his 16 years of
nutritional research in the Department of Avian
Sciences at the University of California, Davis,
Tom studied a
variety
of birds, including 10 years of
research on the nutritional requirements of
companion birds. Mr. Roudybush has generated
most of the published nutritional research in
pet birds, and the research flocks of
Orange-winged Amazons at the University have
been maintained on nothing but Roudybush pellets
since 1981; no other population of psittacines
has been maintained on a commercially available,
formulated diet for such a long period of
time.
In response to repeated requests
from aviculturists hearing him lecture
throughout the United States, Tom began
manufacturing his diets in 1985, in a rented
space of 800 square feet and with a few minor
pieces of equipment. In 1986, Tom began
manufacturing three
Nectar
Diets for wildlife rehabilitators that raise
orphaned hummingbirds, or maintain
non-releasable or overwintering adult
hummingbirds. The diets were tested and
developed through research using Anna's and Blue
Throated Hummingbirds. A short time later,
Roudybush also began to manufacture
Squab
Diet as a response to rehabilitators needing
a diet that mimics the crop milk of
Columbiformes.
Today, Roudybush inhabits
a 32,000 square foot warehouse with
state-of-the-art equipment that allows the
company to maintain Tom's high quality
standards. Tom continues to be involved in
nutritional research, and is committed to
learning more about the requirements of birds in
captivity. This has lead to the manufacturing of
diets for birds with special needs including;
growing chicks, overweight birds, and birds with
specialized
nutritional needs due to certain disease
process such as liver disease, kidney disease,
intestinal tract diseases, and obesity. Tom's
concern for captive birds has even led to our
new Rice
Diet which is formulated to help birds that
are feather plucking or self-mutilating due to
food allergies.
When nutrition is
important, Roudybush premium foods are second to
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