Noor's Personnel Tips on Parrot Care Topic 2

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BIRD FEEDING TIPS

Health & Diet

A parrots diet consists of many things that they eat, many people think they eat only seeds and that's not the case at all.  They require a well balanced diet just like us. don't be shy when it comes to vegetables & fruit. If your parrot doesn't seem to like them, keep offering them for at least a month or so.  Eventually they may start munching on the veggies or fruit.  Don't let your parrot get stuck on liking just one or two favorite things, the more you can get them to like the better off they will be health wise. 

A varied diet largely made up of live foods will give you the healthiest bird. Diet.  Some nuts are more fattening to certain birds and not to other birds. 

 Wash fruit or veggies well and use a clean area to prepare fruit or veggies. If I think food items are spoiled then I don't use them for my parrots, I would not want my bird to get sick

: Vegetables my parrots love celery, anything green leafy vegetable, i sometime slightly boil potatoes and yam or sweet potatoes and sometimes carrots, eggs, slightly boiled means example boiled eggs you boil on high for only till it bubbles the cover and shut the stove for 15 minutes this is an excellent way to keep the nutrients.

Carrots, string beans, corn, squash, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, my parrots love tomatoes, bell pepper zucchini, snow peas, sunflower sprouts, pea shoots, sprouted seeds and beans (excellent for protein) potatoes, yam or sweet potatoes no eggplant.

Fruits: Fruits Apples, Pears, Grapes, Berries, Melon family, Oranges all exotic fruits (mango, papaya etc. one quick note: take the seeds of Apple and Pear the are deadly for them. Most any fruit is good for them, if they like it and will eat it then they will get a wide variety.  Parrots tend to have their favorite food items just like people do.

Food People Food: Pasta, Quinoa, whole wheat breads, cuscus, rice and beans bits of very well cooked chicken, and various other "people foods" are fine as long as they are not the majority of the diet. 

Seeds:  Sunflower seeds are very fattening to parrots.  Give a seed mix to your parrots maybe 2-3 times a week, they seem to always prefer it over pellets and other things, they tend to pick out their favorite items in the seed mix which are sometimes not the more nutritional part in the mix.  They may leave behind the better and more nutritionally part behind and you may be dumping it out, you can not make them eat what they leave behind unless that all there is and some parrots will starve to death before they will eat something that they don't like.  This can vary from bird to bird, what one bird will eat the other may not.

Pellets: There are many pellet types on the market.   I personally use ZUPREEM.  To name a couple of others there are Kaytee plain, Exact Rainbow pellets, Zupreem, Harrison's brands.  There are other brands on the market besides these ones that I mentioned. Birds should still have other things in their diet besides pellets.  Birds that are not use to eating pellets have to be converted on to them and at first may not like them but keep on offering them as you give them less and less of whatever else you have been giving them. 

Eggs are good for them excellent source of calcium, boiled or anyway you will eat with no salt of course Cuttlebone very good calcium source, place a whole cuttlebone in the cage or break them in bit size I prefer grinding them and sprinkle on the fruits and vegetables

Chicken, chicken bone and red meat my parrots love them make sure they are well cooked and do not leave the food in the cage more then 1 hour

PRECAUTION

 Don't feed the bird food from your mouth and don't bite off a piece for them. There's too much bacteria in your mouth and you can make your bird sick.

Keep away from salts

take the seeds of Apple and Pear, they are deadly for them

No Eggplant

Junk Food:  Parrots seem to love junk food but is bad for them   A tiny crumb from a muffins, cookie, or other fatty baked goods, French fries once in awhile might be okay, but don't get your parrot use to these treats. You want to encourage them to eat the best foods.  Sugar in general is not good for parrots as it can cause hyperactivity

DO NOT give Chocolate, cocoa, coffee, and tea is deadly for them, which can cause over excitability, cardiopathy, and death. Absolutely positively do NOT give your bird wine, beer, or other alcoholic beverages.  Birds have died from too much alcohol.

Thanks

Noor

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