| Having a parrot as a pet requires setting up a very | | | | getting a range of vitamins, is to feed it pellets. Nearly |
| good, healthy parrot diet so that the parrot does not | | | | everyone who is involved in keeping parrots agrees |
| become sick and die in just a few years. Parrots | | | | that pellets are essential to the good health of a pet |
| actually have a very long lifespan and when you have | | | | parrot, but where there is some discrepancy is the |
| a pet parrot it pays to take the time when you get the | | | | amount that it should be fed. Some say that pellets |
| parrot to find out exactly what should be fed to it so | | | | should be up to 90% of a parrot's diet, but others say |
| that you are keeping the parrot in optimal health. | | | | that it should only be 30%-40% of the diet. This is |
| Size of your parrot. | | | | something you will have to work out yourself and |
| Getting the diet sorted out is not difficult to do. It is just | | | | obviously as long as you are giving it the lower amount |
| a matter of listing a diet that is suitable to the parrot. | | | | and it is eating a lot of other food then at least it is not |
| Parrots of similar size eat similar diets, so the main | | | | starving. It will be a matter of adjusting the percentage |
| consideration you need to make initially is the actual | | | | of pellets according to other food that you will be |
| size of the parrot you have or that you intend to | | | | feeding it. |
| purchase. | | | | Other foods to feed the parrot. |
| For example, you most certainly would not expect an | | | | If you are able to feed it organic food then all the |
| African Gray Parrot to eat the same diet as a | | | | better! Your parrot will be so much healthier for being |
| budgerigar. Their size difference is huge and this will | | | | able to eat organic food. Parrots are usually happy to |
| obviously affect the size of the food they eat. The | | | | try, corn, sweet potato, sweet peppers, green peas |
| beak alone on a larger bird is so much stronger, | | | | and beans, cauliflower, apples, mango, pineapple, |
| allowing it to eat harder foods. | | | | melons and other tropical fruit. |
| Parrot diet variety. | | | | Having water available for your pet parrot. |
| A parrot loves to have variety in their diet. In the | | | | Parrots need to have water available but it is not a |
| natural environment a parrot eats flowers, seeds, | | | | good idea to have a bowl of water because once it is |
| vegetables, fruit and nuts, so the range of food that | | | | a few hours old it will start growing bacteria as food |
| you can give your parrot is huge. Variety is essential | | | | and droppings land in it. A water bottle is a much |
| not only for the health of the parrot but because if the | | | | healthier way to give your parrot its water |
| parrot gets bored there is a good chance he will stop | | | | requirements. |
| eating (just like we do if we are served the same | | | | Once you have decided what to feed your pet parrot, |
| food day in, day out), but also because it gives the bird | | | | make a list so that you can try all the items out in your |
| a range of vitamins. | | | | parrot's diet. You may find that some are not so |
| Vitamins in the parrot diet. | | | | popular, but keep trying them now and then anyway. |
| Once certain way to make sure that your parrot is | | | | |