what veggies&fruits do budgies like?
Janis
I just wanted to know what kind of veggies and fruits are good for budgies.
I've been putting carrots and whatnot in the cage, but my budgies never
touch them. i bought some packaged greens for birds and they don't seem to
like that either.
What other veggies / fruits can i feed to my budgies?
What kinds of veggies/fruits are poisonous to budgies?
Janis
Frogz
the cage as food. I put food in my keets cages for almost three weeks
straight before they ever really took a chance and tried it. That means a
lot of wasted food sometimes, but if you stick to your guns, they may come
around.
My keets tend to prefer vegtables that have been shredded (like on a
cheese grater). I feed a vegtable mix of carrots, bell pepper, sweet
potato, parsnips, zuchinni, yellow squash and I mix small pieces of brocilli
and a variety of peas and beans. I make this mixture once a month and
freeze it in small portions. I don't thaw it in the microwave as cooking
depletes many of the vitamins. I just run luke warm water over the outside
of the baggie and it thaws within about 5 minutes. Of course, you can offer
just one type of fresh veggie, you don't have to make a mix. I do it
because I feed such a large quantity of animals.
As far as fruits, I offer banana, strawberries, grapes (cut in half),
peices of melon, apple (no seeds or core) and oranges. If I have other
items, I usually throw those in also. My keets are used to odd fruits being
put in the cage by now. If I have mango, papaya, pomengranites, kiwi or
whatever around the house. I am tickled to find out that my new properity
has wild blueberry bushes EVERYWHERE. I can't wait til they ripen.
I also make birdie bread for the birds in the house. It's easy. Just get
a cornbread muffin mix and add various shredded veggies and fruits. You can
add nuts, vitamins, or whatever your bird's desire. After you mix it all
up, cook it in muffin papers. You can freeze the ones that aren't used
right away. The birds all go nuts for this.
Pastas are always appreciated by my birds also. As well as scrambled egg
and boiled chicken meat. I think the best way to offer birds food is to
think about all of the things you would be eating on a diet, and offer that.
If we ate the same unprocessed, whole foods as our birds, we would probably
all be a lot healthier.
Hope this helps, there's a lot more info out there to be told, but I
haven't the energy to type more!
--Frogz....who finally gets her frog tattoo when she loses a predesignated
amount of weight!
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celery with leaves, carrot tops, parsley and corn.
Ravl
benQI
My lovebird loves the seeds in a pepper, and brocolli, corn, and bok
choy.
Jessica Day
I had a hard time getting my 2 'keets to start eating veggies and fruit, also.
I saw a hanging skewer advertised in a catalog, I think it was Pet Warehouse,
and decided to try that, because they seem to like the hanging toys and such
fairly well. When I first started with the skewers, I would place a couple
small pieces of millet in between the fruits and veggies to get them
interested. I'll skewer some strawberries or blackberries, and they just tear
them up. Of course, they're awfully colorful when they're done, but they eat
the fruits and have a lot of fun. I haven't had much luck with veggies. They
will eat carrots, celery and raw potato, though. Now, I skewer some veggies
and fruit everyday, and they get the millet as a treat about once a week.
Hope this helps-
Jessica
Angel
Janis wrote:
> What kinds of veggies/fruits are poisonous to budgies?
Avocado is poisonous. Raw onions are also bad (not sure
about cooked onions, I just avoid them in general). My vet
also told me not to feed the birds rhubarb.
I'm sure there are other veggies/fruits that can be added to
this list--these were the ones I could think of right away.
~angel, toby, and roscoe
Clovis Hedgehog
> Pastas are always appreciated by my birds also. As well as scrambled egg
>and boiled chicken meat. I think the best way to offer birds food is to
>think about all of the things you would be eating on a diet, and offer that.
>If we ate the same unprocessed, whole foods as our birds, we would probably
>all be a lot healthier.
it probably just because i'm vegetarian, but whenever i think of my
budgies, i always think of them as vegetarians too (same for most birds in
general --except maybe crows and vultures and so forth). I know there's
nothing wrong with giving them meat, nutrients are nutrients, but in
a err...(bear with me) "natural" budgie habitat (??) in the absence of any
food shortages, i can't picture them eating any form of meat.
I know it's totally an individual choice though, depends what you're in the
habit of eating in your house. Obviously since having pet budgies in
the first place means that they're out of their natural habitat, whether
they naturally eat meat or not is probably the least of *their* concerns.
The only part that gave me the creeps was the part about feeding them
chicken...aiiiieee, you feed your budgies other *birds* ! that's like
finding out there's dead cats and dogs (meat meal) in cat and dog food.
anyhow, *whatever* they're eating, as long as they're eating stuff
other than just seeds all the time, they'll probably thank you for it
(in their secret budgie language of course). There're some people
out there who buy em like an appliance, and just follow the instructions
to the letter: seed, water, cage, cover at night, repeat --and treat their
budgies like decorations in the house (like fish ??).
-Clovis
Frogz
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>
> > Pastas are always appreciated by my birds also. As well as scrambled
egg
> >and boiled chicken meat. I think the best way to offer birds food is to
> >think about all of the things you would be eating on a diet, and offer
that.
> >If we ate the same unprocessed, whole foods as our birds, we would
probably
> >all be a lot healthier.
>
> it probably just because i'm vegetarian, but whenever i think of my
> budgies, i always think of them as vegetarians too (same for most birds in
> general --except maybe crows and vultures and so forth). I know there's
> nothing wrong with giving them meat, nutrients are nutrients, but in
> a err...(bear with me) "natural" budgie habitat (??) in the absence of any
> food shortages, i can't picture them eating any form of meat.
There's nothing wrong with that. :) The meat is something I offer on a
rare ocassion. It is not by any means on a regular basis. Usually my
bigger birds are the ones that eat it, but I had noticed the keets getting
agitated when I put something in the other cages, but not theirs. I really
don't think that most people even offer it to their keets. It just happened
that mine like it.
I am sure that your budiges are quite healthy.
>
> I know it's totally an individual choice though, depends what you're in
the
> habit of eating in your house. Obviously since having pet budgies in
> the first place means that they're out of their natural habitat, whether
> they naturally eat meat or not is probably the least of *their* concerns.
>
> The only part that gave me the creeps was the part about feeding them
> chicken...aiiiieee, you feed your budgies other *birds* ! that's like
> finding out there's dead cats and dogs (meat meal) in cat and dog food.
It's a little different, but I have to admit, I once saw someone feeding
their chickens some left over fried chicken, and that really weirded me out.
>
> anyhow, *whatever* they're eating, as long as they're eating stuff
> other than just seeds all the time, they'll probably thank you for it
> (in their secret budgie language of course). There're some people
> out there who buy em like an appliance, and just follow the instructions
> to the letter: seed, water, cage, cover at night, repeat --and treat their
> budgies like decorations in the house (like fish ??).
>
> -Clovis
>
Shoot, most of them are lucky if they get even that much. I deplore the
little tiny cages that most parakeet 'set ups' include almost as much as
those awful plastic bowls with the palm tree in the middle they sell for
turtles. My family thinks I am nuts because I spent over a hundred bucks
for my parakeet cage alone. Heh, I am not about to let them find out how
much I spent on the patagonian's cage, I think they would have heart
attacks.
>
>
Amanda Coppedge
crack 'em open and eat the marrow. It always grosses me out but the
birds seem to love being cannibals. :)
Clovis Hedgehog (vii...@mail.usask.ca) wrote:
: The only part that gave me the creeps was the part about feeding them
: chicken...aiiiieee, you feed your budgies other *birds* ! that's like
: finding out there's dead cats and dogs (meat meal) in cat and dog food.
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> My parents give chicken bones to their parrots . . . they love to
> crack 'em open and eat the marrow. It always grosses me out but the
> birds seem to love being cannibals. :)
Why do people think of this as cannibalism any more than humans eating the
meat of other mammals?
Harlan Messinger
No avocados--poisonous. Also, lettuce can give them the runs, but other
leafy greens are fine.
Jacqui
chicken bone on my plate. He seems to enjoy chicken as well as hard
boiled eggs so he gets them on occasion.
They both enjoy broccoli (especially the baby variety, broccollini) as
well as celery leaves and leafy greens. I clip them to the side of the
cage near the millet and even my "fearful one" eats them. Fruits are
another story. I put them in the cage but I have't really found anything
that they love.
Jacqui
David G Fisher
One way to get birds to eat things they normally would ignore is to hang the
food from a plastic (it's safer) clip on the side of their cage next to a
perch. I don't know why it works, but it does.
Dave
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mrsd...@webtv.net (Jacqui) wrote:
>It really creeped me out the first time my
>budgie started gnawing on a chicken
>bone on my plate.
Ok, another chicken bone story. I've always heard NEVER give the bones
to a dog or a cat. But they're safe for birds?
What gives?
Ravl
Janet S. Levy
Clovis Hedgehog wrote:
>
> The only part that gave me the creeps was the part about feeding them
> chicken...aiiiieee, you feed your budgies other *birds* ! that's like
> finding out there's dead cats and dogs (meat meal) in cat and dog food.
>
Clovis,
I can understand you getting the creeps if you're a vegetarian, but it seems
to me, logically, that chicken would have a lot of the nutrients a bird would
need to make more "bird". Know what I mean? Actually, I don't give meat to
my budgies, but I don't have a problem with it. I do give them mashed,
hardboiled egg. My eclectus really likes a small piece of meat.
Janet L.
Steve
Jacqui
<<Ok, another chicken bone story. I've always heard NEVER give the bones
to a dog or a cat. But they're safe for birds? What gives?
Ravl>>
Chicken bones splinter very easily and can get lodged in a dog or cat's
throat. As far as bird safety, I really can't say. I don't know if a
larger bird would actually swallow a piece of bone or not. I know my
budgie can't :-)
Jacqui
David G Fisher
Dave
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KristinSue
Hi Janis!
My budgies ADORE thawed, warm corn and also love a little scrambled egg. I
offer a mixture of veggies with beans and pasta, carrots, etc., but they always
pick through and go for the corn and egg! :o) Make sure they have that good
old cuttlebone and a mineral block as well, and give them time to get to
like/get used to the veggies you offer. They're like little kids and you waste
time and food for a while, but they come around eventually! Good
luck!!!!!!!!!!!
Kristin
Janet S. Levy
Mustard greens are excellent for birds.
Janet L.