Cockatiel Q&A: What is the healthiest meal routine for your cockatiel?

by Drew Avery

Question by WitzGlitzMone: What is the healthiest meal routine for your cockatiel?
I wanted to know how other Cockatiel owners feed their birds. I mean do you have a variety or same thing every day? ( Please describe each day’s meal) And what kind of treats do you offer your bird? How can I get my cockatiel to eat eggs, soon enough so they don’t spoil!

Best answer:

Answer by Carlos Zamora
1.) Cockatiel Care- what is the best cockatiel food ?

Cockatiel diet is extremely important and is the key to having a healthy cockatiel – along with exercise.

Give your bird a good-quality cockatiel seed mix from a Pet Store.

Alternatively, you can offer your cockatiel a pelleted diet.

Your cockatiel’s diet must be supplemented with fresh fruit and vegetables on a daily basis.

Cockatiels enjoy spray millet and seed treats such as honey bells or sticks. However, these are fattening and should be offered occasionally as treats only. Pet cockatiels can become overweight very easily so I recommend offering spray millet once a week if your cockatiel is fairly active.

Fresh drinking water is required daily. Also make available of Cuttlebone it gives them calcium

2.) cockatiel diet – are fruit and vegetables necessary ?

A cockatiel diet must be supplemented with fresh fruit and vegetables on a daily basis. An all seed diet often results in an unhealthy or overweight cockatiel.

Try the following:

FRUIT: 
apple, grape, guava, kiwi fruit, mango, melon, nectarine, orange, peach, pear, pomegranate, plum, strawberry, tangerine, watermelon

VEGETABLES: 
bok choy, broccoli, carrot (chopped or grated), celery, chard, lettuce (but small amounts of lettuce and not too often as not a lot of goodness), peas, silverbeet, spinach, sweetcorn, watercress, zucchini.

Favorites with cockatiels tend to be apple, egg, pasta, peas, rice, silverbeet, spinach, sweetcorn.

3.) cockatiel care – what cockatiel food can I not feed ?

Never give your cockatiel alcohol, avocado or chocolate – these can kill your cockatiel.

Also avoid asparagus, aubergine or eggplant, cabbage, caffeine (tea and coffee), junk food, milk and cream, raw potato, and rhubarb (including the leaves).

I hope this has taught you what food you may or may not feed your cockatiel.

Your Welcome!

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