How to Feed a Parrot

Video Transcript

"This is an automatic feeder. It gives you the opportunity to give the bird quite a lot of food at one time. The food goes in this side, they eat from this area, and their leftovers come here, so it makes for a nice cleanup. Parrots need their nutrition, and you should really examine what nutrition each of your types of parrots need. They are very different in some aspects and very similar in others. Most birds do like the millet, and even large birds that most people think do not like millet, they do. The...I'm a strong advocate on the pellet diet. I am because the pellets give the bird all the nutrition they need. They can't go in and pick out the candy and leave all the vegetables. There are several types of pellets. This is a fruit blend type pellet. And then there is a natural pellet that doesn't have any food color to it. Both kinds are very good for the birds. My birds seem to appreciate the fruit smell and so forth, and eat on it very well. Also, the pellets come in different sizes. You need the right size pellets, and the right, like I said, diet for each bird. Of course a finch or a parakeet would not eat the same size pellet that a Macaw or a Cockatoo would eat. So, we have different size pellets and different styles of food. The seed diet, here, is basically for Cockatiels. It is a lot of seed. I have some pellets in it, because I want to get the bird switched to pellets, and, but even then, I want my birds to have some seed, because that is their natural way to eat, is to eat from seed. Birds need fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. When you can't get the fresh vegetables, then get frozen. Canned vegetables have additives of salt and preservatives, and so forth, that your bird does not need. But the frozen kind will be sufficient. They need apples, pears, seedless grapes, and different fruits. They seem to love bananas. These can also be dried fruit, so that you can get the fruit all year round. But your bird does need the difference of the fresh fruits and vegetables, and so forth. They also seem to love pasta extremely well, and rice."