The African Gray Parrot: The Diet - Hobbies

When thinking about what to provide your parrot to eat, give thought to everything that he ate in the wild. He ate fruit and nuts. Chances are you will think all fruits are fine to give him to eat and most fruits are healthy. However, avocado is not beneficial for parrots neither are the seeds of fruit. Many seeds contain cyanide even though it does not contain sufficiently enough to kill a human, your parrot is a lot smaller in comparison with what you are and thus it will create a large amount of damage. You need to provide your parrot natural and organic pellets as a key food source. Fruits, nuts and vegetables, cooked or raw are given more as a supplementary food source. Birds normally have to have a large amount of calcium and vitamin A, better known as beta-carotene, and leafy green vegetables and mustard greens are a good source of the two. Broccoli is the best source of both of them. By giving your parrot fresh fruit and vegetables, you will strengthen his level of immunity as fresh vegetables and fruit contain phyto-nutrients. This is known to assist in promoting healing and is thought to help prevent ailments. You may also give your parrot cooked rice and a minute amount of cooked (never raw) meat and fish for amino acids. This is not meant to be given on a daily basis as in the wild parrots do not eat meat .Many parrots are actually believed to take pleasure in a bone with tit bits of meat on it. Apples, berries (all berries that you can eat) banana, oranges, seedless grapes, melons, kiwi, mango, papaya (remove the skin off the mango and papaya), almonds and unsalted peanut or other nuts, are good for your parrot. Spinach, beans, sweet potato, peppers (red, green and chili), peas, lettuce (not ice-berg or head) celery, collard, kale (fantastic source of calcium), butternut, zucchini and cucumber are the right vegetables for your parrot.Boiled eggs with the shell still on is a good source of protein and calcium. DO NOT give your par rot coffee or chocolate: as it contains theobromine, this is an alkaloid that is fatal for your parrot. Alcohol and salty foods must not be given to your parrot. Birds do not have sweat glands and as a result are unable to get rid of the salt in their bodies.Further more if you provide pellets, fruit and vegetables there is no reason to supplement your birds food intake with other supplements. Too much vitamins can cause a lot of health concerns.Before supplementing his food, go see a avian specialist, they will be able to inform you when it happens to be desired.

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