Seeds contain too much fat and lack other ingredients for health, so vets choose pellets. Avian vets nowadays recommend pellets because a good pellet is considered to provide nutrients, minerals and vitamins that an amateur cannot match. Pellet diets for captive birds originated in USA. This budgie is enjoying a piece of cabbage Pellets or seed mix
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Our family meals improved a lot, once we had free ranging parrots around at meal times. If she’s out of her cage, don’t beat yourself up if a tiny bit of cookie or a chip was stolen or offered. The solution is to try to have unsuitable food out of sight. But most parrots, like toddlers with junk food, adore these human foods. These foods aren’t that wonderful for humans either 😊. You should avoid letting your budgie eat: Fried food, salt, crisps, bacon, coffee and caffeinated tea, although herbal teas are fine, biscuits, pastries, alcohol, cakes, chocolate, pizza, chips, bread, vanilla, peanut butter and cheese. Unless your fresh food is home grown or organic, it’s a useful precaution to wash well. It is true that often a food stuff like parsley or fruit pips if taken in large amounts can cause harm but not in small amounts. There is controversy that onions, mushroom and garlic should be avoided. You may like to offer small portions of: Cucumber, lettuce, beetroot, tomato, rocket, celery and pepper.īudgies enjoy cucumber along with other salad vegetablesīudgies can eat: Green beans, carrot, peas in pods, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet corn and sweet potato – this should lightly cooked and your budgie would only want a teaspoon full. What fruit can budgies eat?īudgies can eat banana, strawberries, apples, grapes, oranges, peaches, blueberry, pear, raisins, mango, melon (all varieties), nectarines, cherries (ensure you’ve removed the stone) and kiwis. Choosing the correct food needs plenty of research and advice from trusted sources.
These days pellets have become the choice of many vets and you will have to choose whether pellets or seeds or your own mix will form the major part of the diet.Ĭurrent feeding advice is that 40% of the diet should be fresh foods. Up until a few decades ago, it was customary to feed budgies mostly on seed mixes, Trill being the favourite with a cuttlefish bone clipped to the cage bars, maybe a spray of millet as a treat. Get a quote to insure your budgie for £1,500 of vet fees | Up to three birds per policy | We've been insuring exotic pets since 1996 | Check out our customer reviews on FeefoĪdvertisement: Northern Parrots have lots of tasty food for your Budgie.
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