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Food For Parrots

If you intend to keep parrots as pets, this may be your first question. Before you check out the pet stores for parrot supplies, here are some useful tips on providing a well-balanced parrot food.

Parrots need healthy, nutritious diet to help them live long and healthy lives. A healthy diet also impacts your parrots’ behavior and their response to training. The good news is that preparing the right diet for your pet parrots is not that difficult.

Do not just feed your parrots bird seeds, thinking that they are hardy birds and can live on just that. Yes, parrots such as the Macaw and Cockatoo are hardy birds, but bird seeds do not contain enough vitamin A and calcium which they need. In fact, bird seeds have a high content of fat, which as we know it is not healthy. In any case, bird seeds should just form only 10 percent of your parrots’ diet. If you own other species of parrots that are big seed eaters such as budgies and cockatiels, than the bird seeds should form 25 percent of their overall diet.

Another popular choice among parrot owners is pellet food as they have a good source of nutrients. Pellets contain vegetables, grains, fruits, vitamins and minerals, and is a convenient all-in-one parrot food. However, feeding just pellet food everyday may bore your parrots. Pellet food should just make up about 50 to 60 percent of your parrots’ daily intake.

Fresh fruits and vegetables are important food elements for your parrots. Depending on the size of your parrots, cut the fruits and vegetables to chewable size for easy consumption. Hanging the fruits on the side of the bird cage is also a good idea as it is easier for the birds to eat them from there than from a plate or bowl. Examples of ideal fruits for parrots are papaya, kiwi, pineapple, mangoes and pomegranates. These are tropical fruits found in their natural habitat, and naturally suit their diet best. Ideal vegetables are carrots, green beans, corn, cauliflower, cucumber and eggplant. To add variety, you may want to include softer fruits such as oranges, bananas, peaches and apples to the diet. Avoid giving them avocado, guacamole, and mushrooms as these are toxic and may harm the birds.

Keep the diet with nature’s food and avoid giving your parrots processed foods that we humans eat, such as chocolate, candy and caffeine. Make sure that when children are around the parrots, they do not feed the birds with kid’s food such as marshmallows and jellybeans.

The state of your parrots’ health has a lot to do with the diet and nutrition they are getting. It is the parrot owner’s responsibility to provide a balanced diet to the birds. However, feeding your parrots and watching them enjoy delicious food is fun and satisfying and is one of the reasons why people keep parrots as pets.

Parrot food should be limited to a solid-colored pellet, and should definitely not be focused on seeds. Discover how seeds are fine as a treat for parrots with help from the president of a bird club in this free video on parrot food. Expert: Ces Erdman Contact: www.wilmingtonncbirdclub.com Bio: Ces Erdman is the president of the Wilmington NC Bird Club, a group dedicated to the education of its members and the community on the care of companion birds. Filmmaker: Rendered Communications

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Learn the Benefits Of Organic Parrot Food

Your parrot’s diet is an essential factor in their life. What they eat affects all aspects of their health and development. Their health is obviously affected by what they eat because food contains nutrients to help them grow and thrive. But did you know your parrot’s mental and emotional health is also affected by their diet? It’s the same for humans. When we eat bad food, we feel bad. It affects our mood, our decisions, and our behavior, not to mention our health. And like you, your parrot will benefit from eating organic parrot food.

Organic Parrot Food Is Free Of Carcinogens

Many top level parrot foods have some serious chemicals in them – chemicals that have absolutely nothing to do with food or improving your parrot’s health. In fact, these chemicals can and do cause cancer. Here are a few of the items found in most non-organic parrot foods.

• Ethoxyquin – this is used as a food stabilizer and a pesticide.
• BHA – Butylated hydroxyanisole is a food preservative that has been shown to be a carcinogen (cancer cause).
• BHT – Butylated hydroxytoluene is another food preservative and carcinogen. Both BHA and BHT are difficult for humans to metabolize and next to impossible for a parrot’s sensitive system to manage.
• Menadione – A vitamin K supplement is extremely toxic. It has been reported to cause anemia, brain or liver damage, or neonatal death humans and is toxic for birds and yet many parrot foods contain this toxic element.

Organic Parrot Foods Don’t Contain Added Sugar

Would you feed your parrot sugar cubes? No, of course not, right?  Sugar isn’t something your bird needs nor does it improve their health, behavior or happiness. Yet most parrot foods contain sugar. They, for some reason, feel the need to sweeten the food. (Probably to cover up the taste of all those pesticides and preservatives.)

Your parrot doesn’t need added sugar and good organic parrot foods don’t contain any added sugar, flavorings, or food colorings.

Organic Parrot Food Lengthens Your Parrot’s Lifespan

A seed based diet is too fatty for most birds to handle and it’s short on nutrients. A seed based diet can cause:

• Fatty Liver Disease
• Kidney Failure, Feather Plucking Issues
• Overgrown Beaks
• Blindness
• Epileptic Seizures (Mostly Common In African Greys, And Cockatoos)
• Inability to Fly
• Chronic sickness

An organic pellet parrot food  can lengthen the life of your parrot by several years. Actually, it can triple your parrot’s lifespan. Why? Because it offers 100% nutrition without the unnecessary extras like fat, sugar and chemicals.

Organic Parrot Food Is Easier to Get Than Ever Before

A few years ago, organic parrot food  was next to impossible to find. It was also incredibly expensive, not to mention the shipping cost was exorbitant. That’s not the case anymore. More people are aware of the benefits making it easier to find.

If you want to offer your parrot the best you can possibly offer, organic parrot food is the way to go. It’s 100% good for your bird and helps you give them the life, love and health they deserve.

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Question by Shannon A: Can I feed my parrot food with honey in it?
I like to feed my parrots table food. I like to have oatmeal with organic honey. I know it is bad to feed honey to children. I don’t want to even eat in front of them if they can’t eat it! =0)

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Answer by enn
Honey is not bad for children, just small babies. Honey is actually a better sweetener for small children than substitute sugars, so give your kids honey.
As for your parrot, honey is found naturally in their habitat and is a source of food for them as well. Raw or cooked oatmeal with honey is fine for both parrot and children. Honey is a great cough soother in small children. Just small newborn babies under age 1 shouldn’t have honey – but after that, honey is found naturally everywhere there are flowers and bees, and historically over the centuries honey was much more prominent as a sweetener in breads and cakes than cane sugar, so don’t believe what those “experts” say. Humans have survived for thousands of years eating honey, I’m sure feeding your kids and parrot honey will be just fine.

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Food For African Grey Parrots

African Grey Parrots

African Grey parrots’ food must not be only seed, however. Such an incomplete, imbalanced diet is likely to cause illness. Seeds are high in fat and carbohydrates, and your African Grey will probably pick out its favorite seeds, making the diet even less balanced.

Most parrot experts agree that an African Grey parrots food needs can only be met with a formula diet supplemented with a variety of other foods.

Organic Pellets

What is a formula diet for an African Grey? Organic pellets. I say “organic” pellets because many of the conventional pellets have unhealthy ingredients. Some have even been noted as containing potentially toxic ingredients.

African Grey parrots’ food should never contain menadione. If the pellets you are considering for your African Grey list menadione as an ingredient, read on. The FDA requires a warning on every bag of food that contains it. That warning must read, “Person who handles needs to wear protective outfit, gloves, mask, and glasses.”

Menadione may be added to give your African Grey additional vitamin K. A better option is to provide full spectrum light for your parrot. An African Grey will get vitamin K from the light, just as it would if living outdoors.

Organic pellets also let your African Grey avoid the high quantities of sugar in colored pellets. Most African Grey parrot owners care enough about the bird in which they’ve invested so much money, that they don’t want to give it a diet that is high in sugar.

African Grey parrots’ food that is based on organic pellets will be free of contaminants that might be found in other pellets. In the U.S., government regulations force companies making organic parrot food not to use pesticides or other contaminants.

In addition to a basic, formulated pellet food, African Greys need many of the same food you eat.

1. Fresh vegetables: Offer your African Grey a wide variety of vegetables, raw or cooked. Think bright, deep colors for the most nutrition. Most vegetables that offer high nutrition to you and your family will be good for your parrot as well. Cooked legumes such as beans and lentils are good. Sprouted seeds are also good. Your African Grey will love them. To avoid contaminants such as pesticides, you may want to use organic vegetables for African Grey parrots’ food.

2. Fresh fruits: In the wild, African Greys eat fruit freely. The trick is to keep your parrot from filling up on its favorite food and neglecting pellets and vegetables. As with vegetables, choose bright, rich colors in fruit for the most nutrition. Also, purchase organic if possible.

3. Other supplemental foods: African Grey parrots enjoy cooked eggs and small amounts of yogurt now and then. African Greys are more prone than some parrots to calcium deficiency, so you may leave the egg shell on the hard boiled egg, if you wish. You should not need to give your parrot calcium supplements if you are using a good organic pellet food. You may give a few seeds as a treat, but go easy on them.

No, Thank You

African Grey parrots’ food dishes should never contain avocado, chocolate, or rhubarb. They should not contain any human junk foods or processed meats either. It should go without saying, but your African Grey should never be given anything containing caffeine or alcohol.

Water, Please

Remember, when thinking of your African Grey’s dietary needs, that it should have fresh, clean water in its cage at all times.

Helpful Tip

For healthy African Greys, be sure you clean the food and water dishes every day. If your parrot decides on an impromptu bath, wait until it is done, wash the water dish, and give it a fresh supply of water.

By: Anna Hart

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Question by UR: Does anyone know of a good website where i could buy parrot food?
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I’m looking for a good reputable website where i could buy
Higgins mayan celestial mix parrot food,

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Try Drsfostersmith.com

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Finding The Correct Parrot Food

What is the best parrot food and why? There is no single answer to this question as many different types of parrot food are good for different reasons. However it is important to find out which foods are good and why because you never know what really goes into certain products. So what are the benefits and disadvantages of particular food groups?

Seeds are a great source of nutrition for parrots. They are designed especially for parrots so the ingredients are not harmful in any way. Regular seed mixes of parrot food usually contain just plain old sunflower seeds which are high in fat and it is recommended that you try to stay away from these. More expensive mixes however, contain a large variety of seeds that are highly nutritious and very beneficial to your parrots diet. It is recommended that when buying seeds, always check to see the exact content of sunflower seeds.

Another type of parrot food commonly used and perhaps more nutritious than seeds are pellets. Pellets contain many more vitamins and minerals that will help your parrot stay healthy, live longer and have more overall energy. There is very little fat in most pellets found on the parrot food market but always check with someone if you are unsure of the ingredients. This type of parrot food is best mixed with fresh vegetables, which brings us to our next point.

Fresh vegetables are definitely the best type of parrot food there is. Combining vegetables with vitamin rich pellets can make a huge difference to the health of your parrot. It will give him/her a great deal more energy and vibrancy than any other type of parrot food. So go out there and buy some fresh vegetables, chop them up finely so your parrot can eat them and mix in some specially designed pellets. Changing a parrots diet can do wonders for its personality!

The last point to make note of is this, parrots are like children, they will eat anything they can get their beaks on. Some people believe that parrots are smart enough to know what is best for them to eat. Do not believe this as this is the first step to having a very unhealthy bird that will only live for half as long as it is suppose to. In the end it comes down to this, parrots must eat parrot food not human food!

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Question by Dinky Finklestein: I ran out of mouse food today. Is it OK to give her Parrot food?
I don’t know if there might be something unhealthy about feeding a mouse bird food. Specifically parrot food.
If it’s not OK, do you know why?

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Answer by anonymous
I don’t think it’s healthy, just feed her lettuce and other veggies or fruit

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Now you have bought a parrot you may be asking the question, what is the best parrots food for your new pet.  At this point, you have probably realized that there is no single food that can be given to every bird, so now it’s time to do some research in order to find a good and balanced diet for your pet.

Buying Food With Low Sunflower Content:

Firstly, it is not really harmful to feed seeds to your pet, because they have a lot of nutritional content. However, parrots food with sunflower seeds in them are not good for your bird, because they contain lots of fats.  Therefore, it would be best to purchase seed mixes with a low sunflower content, which will keep your parrot in good health.

Pellets are an excellent parrot food and are very often fed to pet parrots mainly because they contain a lot of minerals and vitamins which are good for the health of your pet and will ensure that he lives longer and remains energetic as to. These pellets usually do not contain much fat and by mixing them with fresh vegetables it creates a wonderful meal for your bird.

Of course, nothing quite beats fresh vegetables which are obviously the proper kind of parrot food and when mixed with pellets that contain plenty of vitamins, it will help in maintaining good health in your parrot. A parrots food helps to make the animal feel more energetic and there is also certain vibrancy in good parrot food that is not found in any other kind of food and that is why it is a good idea to feed fresh and finely chopped vegetables to your bird and to also mix some pellets with the cut vegetables.

In fact, when it concerns parrot bird food there are several options to choose from including special diets and also regular foods and in fact, there are even special bird foods for different types of parrots which means that you will need to choose those that are especially designed for the type of parrot that you own.

Okay, the feeding habits of a parrot are like those of a child, which usually means they won’t discriminate what parrots food they eat.  So don’t make the mistake of thinking that these birds know which food is best for them, therefore, it’s best that you choose the correct parrot food from information you have researched from books and even the Internet.  The rather than letting your pet feed on any food it can get a hold of. In conclusion, the right kind of parrots food is one that is well balanced and is specially formulated for your pet.

Feeding your parakeet the right food is important to health. Learn tips for controlling your parakeet’s nutrition in this free video clip. Expert: Elizabeth Cantu Bio: Elizabeth Cantu has owned and been working with parrots since 1994. She has been active in captive parrot rescue and rehabilitation. Filmmaker: julio costilla

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Question by clairercluck: can parrots and budgies live together and eat the same food?
i have a indian ring necked parrot /parakeet hes not too large in a massive cage and have been give n 2 budgie can they all live together in one cage ….and will they all eat the same types of food

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I wouldn’t put them in the same cage together without first seeing if they get along. Place their current cages right up against each other and see how they react to each other first. Go slow with this. As for the diet, each type of bird has dietary needs. Some of the food might be the same but I’m sure there are some foods that each will need individually. I would check with a vet or a knowledgeable pet store owner about these things.

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