Cockateils requre a good well balanced diet. I feed mine, two beans for example aztec and any other small bean no pinto beans its too gassy for him or her. Three types of veggies carrots, squash, peas, three grains, wheat, barley, and rye, also rice is good, fresh garlic, a fruit, and supplements such as red palm oil for the feathers and weight management, flax seed, and kelp powder and only small drops of this supplement in their mash. This keeps your bird extremely happy and cockatiel seeds always. You want to cook the grains and beans and than mash up in a processor with a little bit of water that appears kinda like baby food. You can take all the fruits veggies and everything else and blend them up all together with the beans and grains. Good Luck and God Bless.