Fruits & Veggies in the Parrot Diet
Sun, Nov 29, 2009
One of the most important aspects of proper parrot care is providing your pet with a premium pelleted diet supplemented with about 20% fruits and veggies. A premium pelleted bird food such as Harrison’s or Zupreem Bird Food provides a )) amount of nutrients per bite. Pellet eating parrots have a much better nutritional intake than seed eating parrots, by far. But even so, avian vets recommend that 20% of a parrots diet consist of a variety of fruits and veggies. While fresh is best, it can be difficult to offer a huge variety of fresh foods. Bird foods such as Goldenfeast Bird Foods are an axcellent alternative due to the huge variety of human grade products in each mix.
Excellent advice about the parrots diet! Many people think that seeds are the staple of a birds diet but they are too high fat…it would be like you eating all potato chips at every meal!