We also offer rice, pasta, couscous, quinoa, nuts, dried fruits, sesame biscuits, jacket potatoes, eggs, pulses, salmon, chicken and occasionally a little cheese but obviously not all at once! The only drawback to this approach is that your bird can still be selective of what it is eating. You have to keep an eye on the foods eaten and those thrown on the floor and adjust amounts accordingly. The only way to stop a bird from eating selectively would be to limit their diet to only pellets and then they don’t have a choice; this is something I would rather not do as I agree with the criticism that it is boring and unnatural.


My aim is to give a variety of healthy foods but use a small amount of each


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food type to give the birds a balanced diet and some much needed variation. I cannot imagine how tedious it would be to eat the same food day after day and I’m sure our parrots wouldn’t thank us for it either. I suppose my approach is still open to criticism as my birds could still eat more seed than their pellets but because I limit the amount of seed and nuts in proportion to the other healthier foods they seem to eat a bit of both which to me is the happy medium. If your birds are currently eating a seed only diet, then please consider introducing pellets to their daily food. There are many different varieties on the market, it can be confusing and it might be a case of trial and error until you find one which your bird will eat


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