Feed your parrot a balanced diet of fruit, vegetables,
cooked meats and grains. Go ahead and share whatever healthful food
you're eating with your parrot.
Note: Avoid chocolate, caffeine,
alcohol, kidney beans, lima beans and avocados. These foods are
toxic to parrots.
Some
Feeding Tips:
- Parrots love to hunt for food. Don't make
meals boring for them. Pellets may be nutritionally complete,
but they don't give them the fun of cracking open seeds. Stick
treats inside paper cups strung on a rope. They love destroying
the containers.
- Vitamin A is essential for optimum skin and
feather condition, eyesight and helps the body fight infection.
Some good sources of Vitamin A are the green vegetables such as
spinach, broccoli, watercress, parsley and green peppers; yellow
orange vegetables such as sweet potatoes, yams, carrots, butternut
squash, red peppers and pumpkin; and fruits such as peaches, apricots,
cantaloupe, papaya and sour red cherry. Other vegetables and fruits
that may not be high in Vitamin A but provide other nutritional
value and psychological benefits are corn on the cob, peas in
the pod, bean sprouts, cauliflowers, grapes, banana, berries,
pineapples and others.
- Whole grains may come in the form of whole
grain bread or toast, low sugar or unsweetened cereals, whole
grain pastas, oat bran and crackers. Carbohydrates come from fruits,
pasta, grains, bran, corn, beans, potatoes and peas. Dairy, nuts
and seeds provide parrot the small amount of fat needed in the
diet.
Here are a few interesting recipes that are easy
to put together and keep well. Your bird will love to snack on these
healthy treats. If your bird enjoys eating what you do, try the
'Bird and Companion' mix.
Bird Friendly Mix:
- Dried Papaya and Dried Pineapple Mix
- Cheerios (multi-Grain)
- Sesame Sticks
- Pelleted diet food - Zoopreem recommended
- Dried Cranberries
- Dried Vegetables
- Dried Blueberries
- Whole Wheat Pasta (fun shapes)
Bird and Companion Friendly Mix:
- Dried Papaya and Dried Pineapple Mix
- Cheerios (multi-Grain)
- Low-fat Granola
- Dried Banana chips
- Dried Cranberries
- Dried Blueberries
- Almonds (natural)
- Cashews (no salt)
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