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What
should my parrot eat?
Different parrots need different food. Small parrots like
budgies and parakeets need a good speciality seed diet
supplemented by fresh fruits and vegetables. Larger parrots
need a more specialised diet. Parrots like e.g African
Greys, Amazon parrots, Macaws and Cockatoos often get too
much seed and nuts in their diets (especially sunflower
seeds and peanuts) and are often overweight. A parrot should
not get human food like chips, crisps, rich tea biscuits
or chocolate as it is too high in fat and salt for them
and can give them diseases. A good diet for a parrot consists
of a mixture of fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts and pulses.
Alternatively there are a lot of complete pellet based
diets available for parrots.
An inappropriate diet can cause your parrot to get vitamin
and mineral deficiencies and predisposes it to get health
problems. If in doubt as to what to feed your parrot, contact
a vet with a knowledge of birds.
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