Fruit and Vegetables for your Parrots

Fruit and Vegetables are a vital part of every parrots diet. Many loving owners love to give their birds fresh fruit and vegetables, but sometimes make costly mistakes. Here are the do's and don'ts to feeding your bird fruit and vegetables. Follow this advice and your parrot will a long happy and healthy life!

Fruits:

Apple, Apricot, Banana, Blackberry, Blackcurrant, Blueberry, Cantaloupe melon, Cherry, Cranberry, Dried dates, Figs (fresh), Gooseberries, Grape, Guava, Honeydew melon, Kiwifruit, Mandarin, Mango, Melon, Nectarine, Papaya, Peach, Pear, Pineapple, Pomegranate, Plum, Quince, Raspberry, Red Currants, Strawberry, and Tangerine.

Vegetables:

Artichoke, Beans (cooked only) , Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery stalks, Corn (best when milky), Cucumber, Eggplant (fruit only), Endive, Fennel, Green Beans, Hot Peppers, Kale, Lettuce, Parsley, Peas, Potato, Pumpkin Red, Beet (fresh), Radicchio, Romain Lettuce, Spinach, Sprouts, Sweet Potato, Turnips, Watercress, Yams, and Zucchini.

Thing to Avoid:

All kinds of cabbage,raw and green potatoes, ice burg lettuce, avocados (its oils are extremely harmful to all birds), lemons, grapefruit, and most citrus fruits since its acid is quite strong on their stomach, rhubarb, olives, onions, tomatoes, beans (dried, kidney, and lima), eggplant, raw peanuts, and most seeds and pits including; apple seeds, cherry, peach, plum, and nectarine pits.

Please Note:  

You should never feed parrots anything that has been sprayed with pesticides. Feed your parrot nothing directly from the refrigerator; all of the food should be at room temperature and have been washed and peeled. Not every type of fruit is listed since there are much to many to list. If you are not entirely positive that a specific fruit or vegetable is safe, it is best not to feed it to your bird. Please Contact Me if you have any inquires.