Food Do‘s and Don’ts
Basically lots of vegetables, fruit and seed
Vegetables to introduce into their diets
Most parrots we have found love vegetables and fruit.
A small variety can be cut up and given with their daily seed or in some instances it is a popular practise to give them more veg, iwth fruit and some seed, cooked with pulses and a small amount of pasta.
A list of veg that is good for your parrot to consume.
- Asparagus
- Beets
- Bell peppers
- Broccoli
- Butternut
- Carrots
- Collard greens
- Corn-on-the-cob
- Courgettes
- Hot peppers
- Mustard greens
- Spinach
- Leeks
- Winter squashes
- Dandelion greens
- Kale
- Sweet potatoes
- Parsley
- Pumpkins
Fruit to introduce and what NOT to give them
Its best to limit some fruits that are high in sugar (especially grapes when your bird is in season).
Here is a list of fruit your birds can eat
- Apples
- Bananas
- Citrus fruits
- Grapes
- Mango
- Papaya
- Passion fruit
- Pomegranate
- Peaches
Wild foods to feed your birds
- Chickweed
- Dandelions
- Sow thistle
- Backberries
- Sloes
Nuts: Almonds, cashews; macadamias; pecans; walnuts; brazil nuts; hazelnuts; shelled peanuts; pistachios.
You can also feed your bird peanut butter, as long as you use an unsalted variety, and its best to give them the 100% penut ingredient you can find in most supermarkets.
Sprouted seed is a great dietary balancer because it gives in to the urge to eat seed that consumes many birds but by sprouting, the higher fat content is removed and the nutrients remain. A variety of different sprouted seeds can work well as oily seeds such as Niger and rape retain protein and carbohydrates when sprouted while starchy seeds such as canary and millet has less protein but more carbohydrates.
