What do you feed your Parrots?

[PaigeHgibson]

Just curious about what other Parrot owners feed their parrots

I feed my Bare eyed Too , Quaker , Sun conure , Blue crown , and Tiels the following

Bare eyed Too "Sunshine"


Ecotrin large parrot / mixed with Rody bush calafornia blend
along with baby food and fruit , veggie, eggs , ETC


Quaker "Monk parakeet " sammie

same as sunshine just less ecotrin because Sammie can't eat alot of seed even the best stuff


Sun and blue crowned conure "Gypsy" and "Petey"

Ecotrin and kaytee rainbow mixed
along with fresh stuff

Cockatiels

kaytee seed , ecotrin tiel blend, millet, kaytee rainbow , fresh veggies and fruit

 

[AquaEyes]

My Sammy gets a breakfast of China Prairie sprouts every morning, with little variations. Usually I mix in the green supplement powder, sometimes I add defrosted frozen berries, sometimes banana, sometimes apple, sometimes a mix of frozen mixed veggies, sometimes a piece of whole wheat bread with peanut butter, sometimes a combination of any or all. He has a separate dish of Harrison's pellets to snack on at any time. Basically, anything healthy I'm eating is made into a little mix to add to his soft food as another meal later in the day. For occasional treats, he gets some kind of nut (almonds and hazelnuts are his favorites). He just turned 20 this year. In my avatar pic, he's 17YO, but looks just the same.



~Chris

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I used to have several species of birds, but now I only have my African grey. The small ones eventually passed on and the ones I was fostering went on to live with someone else. Kirby's in his early 20's, although we've only had him for 19 years. I feed a lot of different foods. It really varies from day to day. I always have Harrison's pellets in a dish.

The soft food is where I feed the largest variety. I sprout seed, too. I have bird sprout mixes, plus I sprout for us and share. Some is fed just barely sprouted and some is left to grow into a green feed. I do a lot of chopped up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's usually a combination of what we have in the house that week and what's in the garden during the growing season. Sometimes I toss in some edible flowers or herb sprigs, too.

I may just feed a little of whatever we're having on a particular day. Whatever fruits or vegetables I'm fixing for us, plus whatever grains we're having or a small bit of lean meat or poultry. He loves fish, too. Sometimes it's a little of our oatmeal or some other meal I've made, that's nutritious and not fatty or salty. He likes beans and rice, too. It's easy to just have a clean parrot dish sitting in the food prep area, waiting for a small portion.

Once in awhile I like to bake birdie bread or birdie muffins. When I'm feeling ambitious, I do a batch of mash and freeze it. Mash is grains, legumes, vegetables and fruit, all chopped and mixed together. Maybe a sprinkle of seed mixed in. Other times, I do a simpler typical grain and legume cooked mix with a few other things mixed in, that can have fresh veggies added to it when it's served. I freeze it in snack size baggies. I've started using the vacuum sealer for more things now. If there's nothing in the freezer and I have the flu, I may just heat some water and soak some Beak Smackin' Breakfast for 10 minutes. I usually add a bit more dried sweet potato to it.

I also mix a dry snack mix in a big batch, then vacuum seal it in bags. It has a lot of different dried and freeze dried vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts. I buy individual ingredients, plus I add in Golden Feast mixes like Madagascar Delight, Just Tomato mixes, Nutriberries, broken up Avicakes and Harrison's snacks with palm oil. I usually toss in some wagon wheel pasta as a special treat. I feed a coffee scoop full, for an African grey. Since there are so many ingredients, it ends up being a little different from day to day, too. I don't always feed this every day, it just depends on what else I'm offering.

It probably sounds like a lot more work than it is. I only do the big batches of things or special cooking once in awhile and then they're all done. Anything else only takes a couple of minutes a day.

 

[AquaEyes]

Before I moved and returned to school (and had to live on a lot less income), I would make Sammy a veggie mix based on the "mash" diet by Alicia McWatters. I didn't use her recipe exactly, since I fed sprouts daily already, but modified the veggie/fruit mix, added chopped hard-boiled egg (in-shell) and tofu, mixed it all up in a big stock pot, and scooped it into freezer bags pressed flat. When frozen, I could file them in the freezer and take out as needed. To serve, I'd break a piece off and defrost it and serve. It meant that instead of chopping and preparing veggies in tiny batches every day (and it's hard to get variety when there's just one bird without having a lot go bad before it's fed), I'd make one huge batch every couple of months, using lots of ingredients, and break off a small piece to serve.

 

[TGarcia]

I feed my Blue Quaker Ziggy a variety of fresh veggies, and a mix that the Bird Center specially mixes that has pellets and I also get a small variety of seed to give as treats along with birdy bread and peppers. He also eats some of what we eat. he loves mashed potatoes and I will always fix him some without all the butter and salt. He is NOT picky in the human food dept......I just limit it to how much he eats.

We also grow greens in our garden that is a good thing to give to parrots as well. main thing in most parrots is to LIMIT the amount of seed they eat. it can give them fatty liver disease and shorten their lifespan. COurse it's hard when they are begging for what you eat not to resist giving them a few bites here and there. lol

 

[Moonkit]

My flock is fed a special mix from the local bird specialty store, Treetop Bird Center. They call it "Debbie's Cockatiel Mix" and "Debbie's Small Parrot Mix".. my oldest cockatiel, a 15 year old normal grey, has done well on it. They both seem to consist of a mix of seeds, pellets, dried fruit, and dried greens. When my youngest conure, Merlin, was first weaned.. he ate the whole bowlful himself everyday. What a pig! I sometimes add extra dried fruit into the bowls.. they go nuts for dried pineapple.

They also get spinach, fresh fruits like apples/oranges/mango/papaya and such as treats. Passion, my sun conure female, eats and drinks whatever I'm drinking or eating.. she loves jamaica tea (made from hibiscus flowers) and chocolate milk.. the wierdo. Merlin's picking up the same habits too.. they'll pull down whatever glass I'm drinking from to have a taste.. Passion was less than impressed the time she pulled the glass down and got beet juice

. That day, I learned what a "disgusted" expression on a bird looked like. My dad loves his industrial juicer and will cram anything in it that can be juiced. They also love cactus juice... odd, no?