can i feed my parakeet with broccoli or other veggies?

Answer 1

Yes. Vegetables are great for all parrots, including your parakeet/budgie. Broccoli is a great source of nutrients, and along with many other dark leafy greens, it supplies great calcium. Make sure everything is well washed, and ideally you'd get these foods from organically grown sources,but avoid foods like celery, strawberries, peppers, etc. (you can do a Google search for more specifics) as they hold many more pesticides more effectively that could do damage to your bird's system.

Whatever you do, do not feed your bird avocado, tomato leaves, mushrooms, onions, apple seeds, fruit seeds and pits, anything sugary, greasy, fatty, salty, caffeinated, or carbonated.

My lovebirds adore romaine lettuce (iceberg lettuce is mostly water and doesn't have much nutritional value), rappini, broccoli, and bok choy. Feeding a bird solely seeds is VERY unhealthy, leads to fatty liver disease, fatty tumors, malnutrition, obesity, and as a result, shortened life span and soured quality of life. Fruits and vegetables, along with grains, provide a good diet to supplement what seed could never provide.

Answer 2

Veggies are definately good. Since a few people have already answered your question very well I'll just mention a few tricks. Offer fresh veggies and fruits every day. It may take a while for your birds to see it as food and start to eat it. They are like little kids: they eat what they like first and will ignore all else if they can. Cut the veggies up in a variety of sizes. Thread them through the bars of the cage and hang them from toys. Birds will be more likely to try it out if it looks fun to tear up. Beware, this will potentially make your cage a bit more dirty and fresh foods should be removed a maximum of 4 hours after being put in the cage. If it is a warm day take them out sooner.

You can also try offering veggies before you change their food for the day. Birds are hungriest in the morning and evening as these are the times they naturally forage the most. Try eating with your bird. Make yourself a salad and make a big show of enjoying it. Offer them some every once in a while (this will work especially well if you are really bonded with your bird and it sees you as part of its flock) as all birds know what your eating is always better than what youve given them. I male my green-cheeked conure his own little bowl with the same food I have on my plate and he still thinks I am holding out on him. He has become quite the acrobat in his efforts to steal what I'm eating, even to the point of running up so snatch stuff off my fork before it gets to my mouth. Mix up the veggies you offer so there is variety. I keep a frozen peas and carrots mix that I heat up for the days I don't have time to make my birds a salad.

Answer 3

OK, the people who said yes to feeding your bird veggies were all right. My birds eat a variety of "people" food daily plus pellets and seeds, so they can have a little of everything.

Seeds shouldn't be the be all and end all of a birds diet. They're fattening and some have artificial colorings, now really...why does a bird need artificial anything? Birds will tend to pick out the ones they like, and leave the rest in the dish (or throw them on the floor) and not get a balanced diet....don't let anybody tell you different.

In addition to all those great food suggestions above they can eat small amounts of popcorn, cheese, pasta, cooked rice, barley, lentils and eggs. There are recipe sites for birds you can make birdie breads or mashes for them to enjoy (most freeze well and you just defrost as needed), just like the ones you buy in the pet store, only you know exactly what's going in them.

Of course you don't have to cook for them, it's an option. I just had to bring it up because so many people seem to think that birds are just supposed to eat bird seed. That's crazy. The more varied the diet, the healthier your bird will be.

When you first offer your bird a new food, there's a really good chance he won't show any interest in it. He doesn't really know it's food. Just keep offering it everyday and he'll think it's a toy. When he chews on his toy, he realize he can eat it, and it won't kill him. You can also show him how much you enjoy that food, make lots of mmm...mmmm sounds while nibbling on it. That's a great way to get a social bird to want it, hehe.

Answer 4

Most vegetables are fine to feed to your parakeet. and birds do not "fart" they do not have the anatomy to "pass gas."
Broccoli is fine in moderation. It is better for them to eat veggies high in vitamin A.
Birds should get vegetables in their daily diet, it is part of good nutritional care for your bird. The website http://www.landofvos.com has lists of veggies good for your bird to eat and ones that are dangerous, please check it out.

Answer 5

Yes. as long as it eats it. Birds need veggies too. You can try introducing small amounts of green leafy veggies to your bird just to see what is his favorite. I feed my birds watermelon (they don't eat the red part just the green part near the skin) apples, lettuce, and other kinds of green veggies. Also, don't forget the cuttle bone for calcium.

Answer 6

Parakeets LOVE lettuce so this might nicely be a reliable veggie to start with. After some cases of testing the lettuce, she might desire to bounce for it with delight once you deliver it around. as quickly as your keet realizes lettuce is tasty, clip a sparkling piece of lettuce on your keet's cage each and daily. be certain to clip it someplace that that's uncomplicated for her to get to. specific, I comprehend lettuce has few nutrition in it. even although, keets like it, and that's a acceptable coaching gadget. It teaches keets that green, leafy issues are surely fit to be eaten. additionally, lettuce has a good form of water in it, it is considerable to a keet eating recurring. this is easier for keets to "devour" water than to lap it up with their little tongues. posinus to offer parakeets: amaryllus calla lily daffodil english ivy foxglove holly lily of the valley mistletoe rhubarb

Answer 7

Yes, but not too much. Favourites include broccoli, leaves of flowering kale, shredded carrots, peas, corn, slices of apple or pear, and grapes cut in half.Do NOT feed cabbage,as this can make them very sick!! Please wash all fresh veg and fruit thoroughly before feeding.Remember to remove all seed/pips from fruit.

Answer 8

My budgies won't go near broccoli but they adore baby spinach. Try that instead.

Answer 9

There is a REASON that you can't find broccoli and other vegetables in the "Bird Food" section of the store......and that's because IT'S NOT BIRD FOOD. They eat seeds and stuff.

Answer 10

If he likes it ...yes...! Set out fruit and vegetables and see what he likes....it's a treat for the little feathered pets. They will only eat what they should eat unlike us humans.