Healthy Parrots need a balanced diet

Keeping your parrot's nutritious diet ensures their longevity, since eating a parrot is one of the most important aspects of keeping them healthy and happy. Although the diets of wild parrots has not been thoroughly examined, experts believe that the seeds are not the only healthy food for parrots. There are very few pet parrots, who will be happy and healthy on a diet consisting only of seeds, a balanced diet requires a little more.

Normally, seed only accounts for 10% of a parrot diet. A Budgie or a Cockatiel can have 25% of their diet is seeds, but do not do it more than that. Seeds have high levels of fat and lack of vitamin A and calcium.

High quality parrot pellets are a good complement to a parrot's balanced diet, but you do not want to do more than it does with the pills. Pellets are nutritious and balanced, but your parrot will get bored with them, so you need to import fresh fruits and vegetables. You can make pellets, 50-60% of your parrots diet.

Always includes fresh cut fruit and vegetables in their diet. Keep fruits and vegetables in large chunks to large birds can easily chew on the pieces while holding them. One trick to keeping parrots entertained during feeding time is to hang a few pieces of their food from different parts of the cage.

Cucumber, eggplant, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, cauliflower and peppers are some vegetables that are part of a healthy parrot diet. If you like, you can do some research to find out what fruits are in their natural habitat. You will find there a few fruits that parrots love, including kiwi, melons, pomegranates and mangoes. Seeds of these fruits are poisonous, so make sure they are removed before you give fruit to your parrot. 

Chocolate, alcohol, caffeine, guacamole, avocado and mushrooms are some other toxic foods that should never be given to parrots. Also avoid foods that are high in salt, food coloring, preservatives, sugar and other additives.

Some pet parrots also loves whole wheat bread and unsweetened whole grain of wheat. You can also try feeding your parrot wheat, oats, that cooked brown rice, pasta and barley see if it likes any of them.

So to summarize, many parrot experts agree that a diet consisting of 10% seed, 50-60% of high quality parrot pellets and 30-40% fresh fruit and vegetables is ideal. But, as they said earlier, nobody knows a parrot ideal diet, but the above seems to work best.