The pellet generation is beggining. How many people do you think are still hooked on to outdated bird care tips such as feeding a base diet of seeds and feeding grit to parrots. What percent of people do you think havn’t yet heard of the new pelleted diets? I mean really my friends were still feeding their birds seed. Luckily I told them it wasn’t healthy and they stoped. How much work do you think it will take to alert people that seeds are the road to malnutrition. I mean really seeds should be history by now.
Those of you who feed your parrots pellets,fruits,veggies,nuts,no grit,and seed only as a occasional treat I aplaud to. You did your homework!
Tags: Bird Care, Friends, Grit, Pelleted Diets, Pellets
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Also don’t forget to give your bird fresh fruit and raw veggies daily. Seed and pellet diets alone are not all that great. Remember birds in the wild don’t eat just seeds so why should your pet. I used to give my birds fresh fruit and veggies daily. Any Vet will tell you this.
Just about all of them, and according to some preservatives or artificial colors and flavors in others, I think they’d feed the seed instead. Depending on if the pellets your talking about are made from humans, birds usually like it better if you feed them more of what they’d get in the wild. I don’t think you can change too many people at this point, and I’m not sure it would be right, really, either.
too many people do this. i have relatives that laugh at me and try to humiliate me because i feed my birds pellets, some seed , table foods and vitamins. they say i think my birds are people and that I’m delusional but why take on such a responsibility if you are not going to do your best for them?. their answer is always. there is no pellets or vitamins in the wild!! how stupid, of course not but their lifespan in the wild is considerably shorter than in captivity. my mother in law, sister in law and my grandma all have birds on seed diets. only my grandmas birds come out of the cage because my s.i.l and my m.i.l never let those birds out. it is so frustrating as a “bird lover” to see this, but they wont listen to me although i have tried. i have to respect their decision as wrong as they may be. they even told my husband to stop wasting so much money on our birds!!! the nerve. he simply told them that there would be no putting up with me if he even tried, boy is he right.