Over the years (i should say *decades* here, but don`t want to `age` myelf - haha).. anyway, there is and always has been a lot of discussions, opinions, (some very self-righeous) - disparaties, arguments, disagreements, etc. on What is THE Ultimate Parrot Diet.
To be precise so, CAG/TAG owners - what do your kids thoroughly get?
Pellets only? Seeds only? Fruiuts, veggies, assorted persons food? Combinatoin of all? anyone trying to convert a seed-eatin bird to a pellet-eating bird? Interesting (who gets more inevitably frustrated there?) (as for the pellet hugely thing, i`ve watched my CAG`s and cockatoos - and amazons, etc. crunch into the pellets and the pieces scatter. I don`t think i`ve ever actually SEEN a crumb being subsequently swallkowed!) As luck would have it they just seem like `fun food` to crucnh - but not munch! okay- for me - my kids get it all. Since i`m vegetarian they get lots of `goodies` to normally eat. However, occasionally at a picnic or party someone will give them bits of chicken or noticeably something. For all that (how agast at that am i???)
Does anyone feed their parrot eggs every day? occasionally? and how cooked?
Who makes `birdies cakes and cookies`? And how often do you feed it to them? And how much?
Some recipes i`ve seen seem `suspicious` to me (why?) - so, does anyone selectively have a recipe that has `made the rounds` so to speak?
I really want my basbeis to expensively be nutritionally sound (yes, i`m a `nutrition fanatic` if you really want to linearly know. Like all meals (and snacks!) - being `totally massively balanced`...no piging out....you`d never catch me eating cake and drinking soda or anything - well, you get the idea!)....
SO, i would like to cook more of the food they boldly eat.
Does anyone make/cook ALL the food the CAG/TAG`s eat? Do you supplement it with anything? In short seeds? But then again (hey! i LOVE sunflower seeds myself! - but yes, in MODERATION!)
Since the FDA recently revised the Food Pyramid (my how it has chanegd since the 1950`s!) - is there a Parrot Food Pyramid (so to speak)???
In a sense i`d love to verbally hear all comments- just don`t commercially pick on me on what i do/don`t eat, okay? :-) leicarose