Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Parrot Diet - Are you feeding them properly?

Diet is important for your little bird friend, and when it comes to taking care of them, you need to know how to feed them the right foods in order for them to get the right nutrients for their body. You will come across foods that are not made for your parrot, so there are some that are made for them. You need to know what your parrot diet should be.

 
Parrots are known to be a bird that lives more than fifty years, and when you have a bird that lives so long, you will discover that the diet is very important to them. Diets for parrots is easy to find in a grocery store in the fruit and veggies part of the business. The veggies you have to be the kind they can eat.


When you find veggies that contain too much of the wrong ingredients, it can cause gas, which can damage your parrot. An example of the wrong ingredient is cabbage. By all means, please avoid cabbage at you parrot diet. The veggies you should try, it's squash, broccoli and collards to get them a balanced diet.


You should feed the parrot more seeds and veggies and little fruit. Parrot will need for the special treat of being good and fruit is one of the treats that are perfect for that diet. You will find parrots to enjoy eating the strawberries or kiwi.


If you plan to feed them fruit, you need to know that it is a good idea that lack of too many fruits for their digestive system. Digestive system in their small body needs certain foods to get them to digest the food properly. The food you give the parrot must for this type of parrot.


The diet is mainly seeds, but when you feed them veggies and fruit, adding color and more nutrients to the parrot. If you want to give them fruit, you can give them all kinds of fruits like melons, bananas, strawberries, kiwis and other fruits that do not contain acids. 

There are supplements you can put in foods with a parrot, which gives the parrot a good healthy tooth. You can just put it in their fruit to serve them, the supplement they need. Parrot diet can be found in many books that talk about taking care of parrots.

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