Parrot nutrition: Raw Chop
Fresh food Recommendations
Intro:
Parrot Diet is so important for many reasons, like, Feather health, controlling hormones, helping with behavior, and so much more, so with that being said let's dig into which Foods help give the right Vitamin's and nutrients to help your fids stay fit and healthy!
Veggies:
- Kale
- Spinach
- Collard Green leaves
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower
- Brussel sprouts
- Carrots
- Green beans
- Cabbage
- Asparagus
- Parsnip
- Zucchini
- Peppers
- Peas
- Rutabaga
- Pumpkin
- Okra
- Radishes
- Watercress
- Acorn squash
- Spaghetti squash
- Butternut squash
Fruits:
- Grapes (seedless)
- Apples (seedless)
- Blueberries
- Strawberries
- Cantaloupe
- Honeydew
- Mango
- Peaches
- Pears
- Bananas
- Papaya
- Dragon Fruit
- Oranges
- Peaches
- Raspberries
- Blackberries
- Pineapple
Grains:
- Cooked Jasmin rice
- Cooked quinoa
- Oats
- Barley (cooked)
- Millet
Pasta:
- Couscous (cooked)
- Veggie Noodles (lightly cooked)
Carbohydrates:
- Sweet potato's
- Regular potato's
- Cooked Rice
Protein:
Feed in Moderation
- Pinto beans
- Garbanzo beans
- Kindy beans
- Black beans
- Cannellini Beans
- Fava beans
- Edamame
- Fish 1x/week (cooked)
- All beans Must be cooked
- (note) Take out beans during Hormone season
Nuts:
- Pine nuts (shelled or Unshelled)
- Hazelnuts
- Brazilian nuts
- Walnuts
- Almonds
- Macadamia nuts
- Feed nuts in shell if your Fid is able to crack them.
*Nuts should only be Given in Moderation and used for Training sessions and Foraging ONLY!
Raw Chop recipe
How we make our chop:
*Raw Veggies, all veggies are chopped in a Food processors
- Kale
- Spinach
- Broccoli
- Peppers (chop by hand)
- Cauliflower
- Cabbage
- Okra
- Watercress
- Radish
- Collard greens
Baked/Steamed Ingredients:
- Brussel Sprouts
- Carrots
- Green Beans
- All potatoes
- All pasta
- Jasmin Rice
- Barley
- Quinoa
- Edamame
- Acorn Squash (Baked)
- Butternut Squash
- Spaghetti squash
Dry ingredients:
*These ingredients help the chop from being too moist
- Oatmeal
- Coconut shavings
- Add a little bit of uncooked pasta noodles
Fruit:
- Blueberries
- Apples no seeds
- Dried Mango
- Raisins
*We recommend these fruits because they help the chop from not being overly moist.
Note: Only keep it to one or two fruits in your chop and not a lot. Fruit contains a lot of sugar, plus the veggies have natural sugar as well, you really want to make sure you are not over doing to much sugars.
Parrots Safe Teas you can add to your chop or water:
- Chamomile tea (naturally caffeine-free).
- Rooibos tea (naturally caffeine-free)
TIPS: Mix the chop in with some some scrambled eggs, meaning, when you go to scramble the eggs, close to the end, add in your chop, this will help the chop stick to the eggs, when your fid goes to eat the eggs the greens and many other ingredient's of the chop will also be going into your fids system.
TIPS: Heat up a Sweet Potato, mash it up and add your chop into the sweet potato, again this will also help with them ingesting the chop because it is mixed in with the sweet potato. (cool to room temp, DO NOT feed hot foods this can stimulate hormones)
*Eventually you will be able to phase this out and give the raw chop plain from time to time.
Pellets we recommend
Ingredients
Oatmeal, Oat Flour, White Millet Flour, Soybean Meal Sunflower Meal, Sunflower Oil, Sunflower kernels, Glycerine, Dried Egg Product, Peanuts, Freeze Dried Papaya, Banana Chips, Cranberries, Wheat, Germ Meal, Lentils, Barley Flour, Peanut Meal, Natural Flavors, Dicalcium Phosphate, Cayenne Pepper, Alfalfa Meal, Marigold Meal, Calcium Carbonate, Peas, Carrots, Blueberries, Apples, L-Lysine Monohydrochloride, L-Threonine, DL-Methionine, Zinc Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Iron Proteinate. Vitamin E Supplement, Copper, Proteinate, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Wheat Meal, Yucca Extract, Silicon Dioxide, Potassium Iodide, Niacin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Biotin, Menadione, Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K Activity), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, thiamine Mononitrate.
Ingredients
Ground corn, Soybean meal, Ground millet, Ground oat groats, Ground barley, Ground wheat, Wheat germ meal, Sugar, Vegetable oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Celery, Carrots, Parsley, Beets, Ground flaxseeds, Blueberries, Cranberries, Calcium carbonate, Dicalcium phosphate, Iodized salt, DL-Methionine, Choline chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, Vitamins (Vitamin E supplement, Niacin supplement, Biotin, d-Calcium pantothenate, Riboflavin supplement, Pyridoxine hydrochloride, Thiamine mononitrate, Vitamin A acetate, Vitamin D3 supplement, Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Vitamin B12 supplement, Folic acid), Citric acid (preservative), Mixed tocopherols (preservative), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, Minerals (Manganous oxide, Zinc oxide, Copper sulfate, Sodium selenite, Calcium iodate), Rosemary extract
Ingredients
*Corn, *Hull-less Barley, *Toasted Soybeans, *Peas, *Lentils, *Peanut Kernels, *Sunflower Kernels, *Toasted Oat Groats, *Brown Rice, *Alfalfa, *Psyllium, Calcium Carbonate, Bentonite, Mixed Tocopherols (a source of Vitamin E), *Sea Kelp, Salt, *Algae Meal, Vitamin/Mineral Supplement (Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Zinc Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Calcium Carbonate and *Sunflower Oil)
*CERTIFIED ORGANIC INGREDIENT
Ingredients
Organic alfalfa, organic hulled millet, organic barley, organic rice, organic sunflower seed hulled, organic sesame seeds unhulled, organic quinoa whole, organic pumpkin, organic buckwheat hulled, organic dandelion leaf powder, organic carrot powder, organic spinach leaf powder, organic purple dulse, kelp, organic rose hips powder, organic rose hips crushed, organic orange peel powder, organic lemon peel powder, organic rosemary whole leaf, organic cayenne ground, organic crushed red chili peppers, organic nettle leaf, organic cinnamon
Ingredients
Corn, soybean meal, wheat, dehulled peanuts, dehulled sunflower seeds, brown rice, canola oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, lecithin, oat groats, dried tomato, flaxseed, L-lysine, alfalfa nutrient concentrate, choline chloride, DL-methionine, orange oil, banana oil, biotin, vitamin E supplement, niacin, calcium L-ascorbyl-2-monophosphate (source of vitamin C), zinc oxide, manganous oxide, d-calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, rosemary extract, beta-carotene, riboflavin, copper sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, inositol, folic acid, vitamin A supplement, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, vitamin D3 supplement.
Pellet Muffin intro
Intro
Pellets are a great conjunction in addition to feeding the raw chop, combining your pellets into a muffin mix will also help convert your fid from an all-seed diet to a pellet diet, that being said this will also help give your fid a variety of food choices.
Note: No-one wants to eat the same foods over and over again, change it up for your fid give them a surprise sometimes. They will love it!