Hagen Pigeon & Dove Staple VME Bird Food, 6-lb bag

Cracked corn is supposed to be dried, then cracked. The ginormous kernels of corn in this mix are smashed flat into jagged, nickel sized blobs while wet and left that way. We have to pick them out and break them up for the birds. I’ll probably buy this product from the pigeon racing supplier next time, although I dislike giving money to people who race animals. There are also more equal quantities of seeds other than millet in the competitor’s orange oil mix.

This is my dove's favorite food! He picks out the red seeds preferentially. He loves this particular brand.

he likes it a lot i mix it with pellets. I only wish the corn pieces were a little smaller.

I used to purchase this seed as a substitute when I couldn't get my preferred seed, Sunseed Vita Sunscription Dove & Pigeon food. Then Hagen replaced the small corn kernels with huge horse corn kernels which have been mechanically flattened, making them even larger and impossible for a normal pigeon to ingest (pigeons eat seeds whole and cannot swallow the corn.) So now I use another brand in a pinch because I cannot waste time picking out all of the flattened corn by hand and tossing it out for the squirrels who have no interest either. I wish Chewy would bring in the Sunseed Brand Dove Seed (they already stock some Sunseed Vita items but they won't despite numerous requests to stock it. Too bad.