The 11 best foods for parrots

Advantages

• clean, quality food
• balanced composition
• parrots like it

Disadvantages

• Bread products in the composition

The best foods for medium-sized parrots

Vitakraft Menu Vital

Rating: 4.9

Cereals and seeds are the basis of this food, a large part of which are vitamin-enriched millet and sunflower. Nuts are a source of protein and essential macro- and microelements for the parrot, but their quantity is not too high. Other ingredients include honey, mineral supplements and vegetable fats. The Vitakraft Menu Vital has a positive effect on the immune system, increasing resistance to disease and overall health.

Advantages

• Has a balanced composition
• Good for health and immunity

Disadvantages

• high price
• Often hard to find in stores

Fiory Parrocchetti

Rating: 4.8

The main advantage of this food is, of course, the variety of ingredients: wheat, oats, red and yellow millet, buckwheat, sunflower, canary and hemp seeds, as well as raisins, safflower and carob fruits – in short, the pet will not complain about the poor diet. As with other Fiory foods, this food mix includes, in addition to grains, granules containing honey, fatty acids, selenium and minerals in easy to digest forms. This combination of ingredients ensures the robust health of the whole body of the parrot, maintains the beauty of its plumage and protects it against disease.

Advantages

• varied and well-balanced composition
• only natural ingredients
• Vacuum packaging guarantees the freshness of the food

Disadvantages

• expensive

adovan Parrocchetti GrandMix

Rating: 4.7

Padovan brand mix for medium sized parrots has the usual composition of grains and seeds, with millet and sunflower seeds being the main ingredient. Mineral-rich additives like crushed shells, pineapple and apple, coconut and peanut. The ingredients are perfectly balanced and provide the parrot with all its nutritional elements. Owners say that birds eat this food almost completely, choosing only brightly colored biscuit crumbs with vitamins, the benefits of which are questionable.

Advantages

• good quality food
• Parrots like it

Disadvantages

• Contains cookies with coloring agents

BENELUX Mixture for parakeets Primus

Rating: 4.6

Tasty and healthy – this is how to describe the Belgian food, which occupies the fourth position in the rating. According to the feedback from its owners, parrots always eat it with pleasure, without leaving a crumb. Variety in the mix: white, yellow and red millet, two types of sunflower, oats, buckwheat, wheat, canary, cardi and nougat. Wheat biscuit, enriched with vitamins, minerals and amino acids, is also present. Freshness and quality of nutrition retained during transportation and storage by special “oxygen-free” packaging technology.

Advantages

• high quality grains
• Nutritional balance
• reasonable price

Disadvantages

• not detected

The best food for parrots

Adovan Pappagal

Grandmix

Rating: 4.9

Although its name implies that it is a product for African birds, the African Parrot Mix is also an excellent food for any other large parrot. Cereal mixture will satisfy the finicky pet’s tastes: there are sunflower, including white, corn, pumpkin seeds, and fine grains (wheat, oats, buckwheat, canary). There are peanuts in the mix both peeled and in the shell. Some puffed corn, chili peppers and rose hips are a separate delicacy. Additionally it contains BAM granules – a complex of vitamins, amino acids and minerals.

Advantages

• Reusable packaging
• Well-balanced composition
• Variety of ingredients

Disadvantages

• high price

What can we feed our parrots other than food

A bird feeder of any parrot should always be filled with sufficient quantity of grain mixture, however for high-grade nutrition it is not enough. The pet should be fed regularly with other kinds of food.

1. Fresh vegetables, berries and fruitCan be fed several times a day. Be careful and read the list of allowed and prohibited fruits so as not to harm your parrot: for example, mango and papaya are often found in dried food, but it is not recommended to feed them fresh.
2. Sprouted grainsSuccessfully replace artificial vitamin supplements. Specialists recommend to give the parrot sprouts not longer than 6 mm – precisely in such condition they are best digested and keep their pleasant taste. Sprouted food should be given in small quantities, as it stimulates the production of sex hormones. On the other hand, if you breed parrots, this component of the diet will be indispensable during the breeding season.
3. Greens. Birds will gladly eat dandelions, plantains, lettuce, young nettles. During the cold season the seeds sprouted to the state of young greens from the food will serve as an alternative.
4. Porridge, Cooked in water without salt and sugar serve as a source of micro-nutrients and have a positive effect on digestion. Buckwheat, millet, oatmeal, rice, pearl barley and barley porridge will be useful for the parrot. They can be served thick or crumbly, with pieces of fruit or without additives. Experiment to see how your parrot likes it best.
5. Products of animal originGive to birds in small portions 1-2 times a week. It can be kefir, ryazhenka, sour milk, cottage cheese, yogurt without any flavorings. Boiled eggs are particularly useful for young birds, but have the side effect of stimulating sexual behavior.
6. Twiglet foodIs a source of fiber and provides the parrot with beak care at the same time. The branches should be cut away from the carriageway. Practically any trees will do, except conifers, pear, oak, lilac, acacia, poplar, cranberry and bird cherry. Sprouted food should be treated with boiling water before being placed in the cage.
7. Juices. Although water should be the parrot’s main source of liquid, it is useful to give the pet freshly squeezed or sugar-free children’s juices from time to time. They should not be left in the drinker for a long time and poured in large quantities, as they spoil rather quickly in the heat.

These are the main “dishes” with which you can diversify the diet of your parrot. But do not give your pet extra nuts and sunflower seeds: they are too caloric, and the amount calculated by the producer is enough for your bird.