Reasons for Balanced Diet for Parrots

As a pet owner you have take special care for the parrot's nutrient intake. As most of them require not just what you feed but also how and when you feed them. On his first day at your home your parrot might not even touch the food that you have offered him. This is the result of change in environment. But if you serve him temping food he cannot keep away from it much longer. And you will find him munching it very lavishly. But the number of times you treat him with this has be kept within limits otherwise it will not be a treat anymore.

There are lots of opinions about the parrot's diet. Here in this article these tips will be highlighted. First of all we must understand that the parrot's diet must have adequate nutrition. Serving him seeds of different variety, fruits, vegetables can work for good diet. But serving only seeds or pellets does not provide it the necessary nutrients required for its body and it could also make the parrot quite bored of the same food everyday. This will eventually cause behavioral problems in the parrot like the biting, screaming, screeching and feather plucking. Some of them might even die of malnutrition and this should not happen at any cost.

Among the various seed offered to the parrot one must always remember that though the seeds do not have any intoxicating chemicals in it but has abundance store of fat in it. And these fats in the parrot's blood stream can cause many health issues like liver failure or kidney failure. Hence it is very important to give exercise to your parrot so that the excess fat can be metabolized. Instead of using sunflower seeds safflower seeds can be used. Among the vegetables and fruits the parrot can be offered apple, carrot, sweet corn, banana, plum, apricot etc.

The Parrot diet can be broadly divided into two categories. The dry category consists of different seeds mixture, pallets. Dry fruits can also be added as a treat. The wet category consists of fruits and vegetables and this happens to be their hot favorite. One needs to remember always that these parrots tend to metabolize their calorie very easily like other birds so there should be sufficient supply of energy also. Carbohydrate rich diet should be given to them always.

Apart from proper diet parrots also need proper timing for their food. As already mentioned they metabolize their calorie very fast. So it is important to schedule their food offering so that the intake of food is proper. As in the wild the parrot as a pet can also be feed twice during early morning and sun set. This is their regular timing. But instead of decorating the bowl with different variety of seeds and vegetable chunks try using different method wherein the food taken looks like earned out of effort. Like instead of big chunks of fruits and vegetables try hanging a full apple, you can see the effort the parrot is putting in to eat it and it is good also.

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