Lets get down to Seeds vs Pellets
If you reading this, I guess you are in same boat I was few months ago, seeds or pellets. Let me make this sweet and short for you.
What I did is I took few months and read every single post I can find, online, forums, sites, all about Seeds vs Pellets war, and this is what I got out of this all.
Let’s take Congo African Gray parrot in the wild. They eat seeds, they love fruits and veggies, greens and probably some other stuff we don’t know about. Seeds are very high in fat, and they need all that fat. African Grays fly about 5 to 15 miles a day to find food, so this fat gets burned very quick. How much is your parrot fly’s a day? Excessive fat intake = Liver failure.
Plus variety of seed in the seed diet is very sad, only few kinds of seeds.
If you offset parrot diet to 40% seed and 60% fruits, vegetables, and other greens and Im talking everything on the market on daily basis, there is no problem in this case, but who is doing this?
If you ask your local bird shop, they will tell you seeds are way to go, why is that? It is easy to feed birds seeds in the shop, any bird will eat seeds, and its cheaper.
Pellet is balanced formula of fat, vitamins and nutritions. There are two leading pellet manufacturers that are most of the bird owners use: Zepreem and Roudybush.
After reading this please don’t hold this thread post as a guide line, do your own research, take some time and read up on some fact.
This is the brake down of the diet:
vegetables 30%; legumes 20%; pellets 20%; seeds/nuts 15%; fruits 10%; and grains 5%
DENGEROUS / TOXIC FOOD:
Alcohol
Avocado
Asparagus
Apple seeds
Chocolate
Cabbage
Caffeine products
Garlic and Onion
Mushrooms
Eggplant
Honey
Junk food
Milk cream and Dairy products
Most houseplants
Tomato leaves
Raw potato, and rhubarb including the leaves
Raw rice or pasta
Salt
If you find this thread/post informative, feel free to share it with your family or friends as it might be helpful to them.
Cheers to happy chirps and colorful feathers!
If you reading this, I guess you are in same boat I was few months ago, seeds or pellets. Let me make this sweet and short for you.
What I did is I took few months and read every single post I can find, online, forums, sites, all about Seeds vs Pellets war, and this is what I got out of this all.
Let’s take Congo African Gray parrot in the wild. They eat seeds, they love fruits and veggies, greens and probably some other stuff we don’t know about. Seeds are very high in fat, and they need all that fat. African Grays fly about 5 to 15 miles a day to find food, so this fat gets burned very quick. How much is your parrot fly’s a day? Excessive fat intake = Liver failure.
Plus variety of seed in the seed diet is very sad, only few kinds of seeds.
If you offset parrot diet to 40% seed and 60% fruits, vegetables, and other greens and Im talking everything on the market on daily basis, there is no problem in this case, but who is doing this?
If you ask your local bird shop, they will tell you seeds are way to go, why is that? It is easy to feed birds seeds in the shop, any bird will eat seeds, and its cheaper.
Pellet is balanced formula of fat, vitamins and nutritions. There are two leading pellet manufacturers that are most of the bird owners use: Zepreem and Roudybush.
After reading this please don’t hold this thread post as a guide line, do your own research, take some time and read up on some fact.
This is the brake down of the diet:
vegetables 30%; legumes 20%; pellets 20%; seeds/nuts 15%; fruits 10%; and grains 5%
DENGEROUS / TOXIC FOOD:
Alcohol
Avocado
Asparagus
Apple seeds
Chocolate
Cabbage
Caffeine products
Garlic and Onion
Mushrooms
Eggplant
Honey
Junk food
Milk cream and Dairy products
Most houseplants
Tomato leaves
Raw potato, and rhubarb including the leaves
Raw rice or pasta
Salt
If you find this thread/post informative, feel free to share it with your family or friends as it might be helpful to them.
Cheers to happy chirps and colorful feathers!
