what is the best food for a pet parrot?

Answer 1

I am a nutritionist who deals with birds - please do not listen to anyone who tells you that pellets are the best food for a parrot. Have you ever seen a pellet tree?? Parrots on pelleted diets sooner or later suffer kidney, liver and other health problems.
Parrots are meant to eat whole, fresh foods - ie. chopped vegetables and fruit (double the amount of veg to fruit), sprouted seeds and grains, legumes served soaked and cooked with grains like rice or wheat or barley (double the amount of grains to legumes), a good dry seed mix, a few nuts, and a millet spray a couple of times a week.

Answer 2

Please be very dedicated to what you feed your parrot. The pellets meant for your birds size and/breed should be the main meal for your bird. I have had the best results with "Pretty Bird" brand pellets. There is another brand but she plays with it and drops it for the dog much more than when she has "Pretty Bird" pellets. If you have an African Grey, you'll need the African Special because these birds need more calcium than the others. What ever pellets you buy, keep them in the freezer. It prevents the bugs from hatching if any have gotten into the bags. I buy the huge bags and divide it up into Ziploc bags to store in the freezer.
Consider seed a treat, or if you were talking about a child, candy. When you first get the seed home, put it in the freezer also.
Bacteria can grow quickly and harm your bird so be sure to clean out the dishes. If you have a dish for water, your bird may like to dunk his pellets in the water before eating them. If they leave a pellet in the water, after a while it will smell like s__t! A water bottle is the cleanest way to go.
Fresh or frozen veggies should be given daily. My bird loves the variety that has broccoli, cauliflower, beans etc. She also eats green beans, grapes, melon...
Toxic foods for any parrot are guacamole and chocolate. Cooking with Teflon pans will let off fumes that will kill your bird.
When my bird's dish starts getting low on pellets, I dump the left over crumbs into a tin. When I have a fair amount, I pour this into an ice cube tray. I mix orange juice (the real stuff) into the crumbs in the tray and freeze it. She loves to have a cube as a treat.
Avoid giving your bird table scraps, things with salt and oil. I buy unsalted peanuts. I go through the bag and pick out the ones that have mold or fungus on them. The rest I put in the freezer for a few days. It makes a messy but yummy treat for her.
Good luck, enjoy your bird.

Answer 3

For most species, pelleted food should be 65-80% of the diet, vegetables should make up 15-30%, and the remainder can be seeds and fruits.

Vegetables and fruits: Fruits and vegetables are a good source of vitamins, minerals, and carbohydrates. Vegetables should comprise 15-30% of the diet, and fruits, 5%. The following table lists good choices of vegetables and fruits for psittacines. It is best to only offer 2-3 types at a time.


Nutritious Additions to a Psittacine Diet
Vegetables Fruits
Radishes
Turnips
Carrots (root and tops)
Cooked sweet potatoes
Radicchio
Endive
Mustard & dandelion greens
Swiss Chard
Kale
Parsley
Cooked red potatoes
Green beans
Tomato
Sweet red & green, and other types of peppers
Cauliflower
Broccoli (head and leaves)
Beet & turnip greens
Eggplant
Kohlrabi
Sugar snap or snow peas
Squash (peeled & steamed)
Red beets (peeled)
Romaine or green/red leaf lettuce
Collard greens
Corn
Cucumber
Apples
Berries
Kiwi
Mango
Cantaloupe
Honeydew
Pineapple
Cherries
Cranberries
Banana
Pears
Peaches
Oranges
Pomegranate
Tangerines
Star fruit
Grapefruit
Papaya
Plums
Grapes
Apricots



Wash all vegetables and fruits thoroughly before feeding. Remove the pits and apple seeds from the fruit. Any vegetables and fruits left uneaten should be discarded daily so spoiling is not a problem. Because vegetables and fruits are high in water content, the urine portion of the droppings will increase.

Our Pet Parrots also enjoy our home cooked meals, we always fix them a plate of whatever we are eating, the love Pizza, and Pasta, hot dogs, and even chicken and steak.

Since many birds have the same dieary needs that we do they always need a varity of foods.


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Answer 4

Give the parrot Guava, it is the best fruit that a parrots like especially all Indains who have parrot will give that food.
If u have big red chillies give that too, but its not for young parrots. when u ask next time specify the breed and gender of bird that will be more helpful to answer.

Answer 5

There are many great foods

I personally base my birds diet on what experts and bird breeders base it on, and my birds have never been more colorful, or energetic

they need fresh fruits and veggies daily

however seeds or pellets should be the base of the diet, I personally use seeds although seeds are low in nutrients and essential proteins, they provide ytour birdw ith the use of its instict to crusha nd crack open their food, where as pellets dont, some birds are even allergic to pellets, so seeds are safer

now the seeds shoulnt compromise the bulk of what your birds eat

great foods are foods high in Vitamins A, E, K, and Beta Carotene

Carrots- are basically a big chunk of Vitamin A and Beta Carotene

Broccoli is the king of veggie nutrition it contains, Vitamins, A, E, and K it, these are the most important vitamins your parrot needs.

Mustard and Collared Greens have lots of vitamin K in them.

Baked sweet potatoes, and mashed sweet potatoes, have a ton of Vitamin A and Beat Carotene in them, Sweet potatoes bring out your birds colors incredibly well.

Cellery, fresh Anise, and Kale are both nutritious and are fun for your bird to eat your bird will not only eat them but have fun shreddignt hem as well.

Fresh fruits are impotant as well

Aplles, pumbs, grapes, bananas, papaya, cantaloupe, watermelon, peaches, pomagrants, necturines, pairs, pineapple, figs are great for them, etc.

also offer some cooked chiocken, macaroni ans spagetti with sauce, a piece of steak or hamburger, and some scrambeld or hard boiled egg with the shell mashed in, and an occassional bug or 2 if you want.

Never offer fruits seeds, pomagrants are ok, garlic and onions can be poisonopus to birds, rice served in large portions can cause your birds tomach to rip, and chocolate or avacado will kill them, so will alcoholic beverages and rhurahb

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Answer 6

Parrot food. You can buy this from most pet shops

Answer 7

I would recommend a diet with pellets formulated for parrots and in addition to that, fortified seed. It is crutial that u give it many fruits and vegetables avoiding the seeds b/c they contain harmful levels of cyanide for birds. and to avoid onions, mushrooms, avacado esp. b/c it is poisonous all together. Parrots are difficult to take care of in the sense that u have to give them a large variety of foods like us! If u r not experienced with birds, u better get experienced b/c this isn't like a dog where you give it feed and water!!!!!!! U need to read up on them as much as possible! I have seen to many people make their birds suffer through years of malnutrition and disease b/c their owners have failed to read up.

Answer 8

I am a vet . i can tell you that parrots like guava fruit very much.

They can be fed on grains and bananas too. please keep water

too in a small container as pet parrots require it along with fruits

and grains.

Answer 9

it depends on what parrot it is but if you go to a pet shop or a library they should have great books i go mine from a library?

Answer 10

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