My partner Dawn and I have now been breeding Gouldian Finches for many years.

Unlike many breeders ALL our parent birds rear their own chicks as we firmly believe in the 'natural' approach when it comes to breeding birds. We never use foster parents for any of our eggs or chicks.

Over the years we have had mixed results with breeding - some years have been moderately successful whereas others have been fairly less so.

Just prior to this current breeding season we discovered a remarkable natural product from Böd Ayre Products based in the UK called 'Liquid Seaweed Extract Feed Supplement'. This supplement provides birds with a natural source of seaweed which is proven to be beneficial for ALL cage and Aviary birds. It is also know to 'aid with fertility' when fed to animals and we believe the same applies to birds as prior to using this ourselves we always expected a certain number of eggs from our birds to be infertile - however to date, so far this year, our birds have laid over 50 eggs and ALL have been fertile!

Although we still have many pairs yet to breed this year we are in no doubt at all that this current breeding season is proving to be our most successful one ever (and we have over 45 years experience with breeding birds).

We attribute a large proportion of our success to the fact that all our birds now receive Böd Ayre Products Liquid Seaweed Extract as part of their regular diet and strongly recommend this product to all bird keepers. Barry and Dawn's website

We have been using Bod Ayre products for a couple of years now from livestock lick buckets to dried seaweed as a soil conditioner and plant feed.

We grow our vegetables and raise our livestock as organically as possible and believe in the nutritive value of seaweed.

Bod Ayre seaweed makes it easy to be able to do so. The quality of the products and the quality of customer service is consistently excellent.