African Grey Congo

Feeding:

The diet depends very much on the bird; if the bird is a wild import our fresh foods maybe alien therefore its harder to adjust the bird into eating a health diet, I would suggest a fortified vitamin supplemented seed in this case as the bird may tend toward being a seed junkie, hand reared birds take more readily to fresh fruit and vegetables, pellets specially produced for specific birds, also egg-rearing food. Avoid feeding a human junk food, chocolate is highly toxic to all animals, crisps, avocados pear, fizzy drinks, as well as tea, coffee, broad beans or runner beans, mushrooms, parsnips and rhubarb. Peanuts in the shell have been known to harbour harmful fungal spores causing respiratory disorders also peanuts stop the absorbtion of calcium into the body tissues. ECT.
You may feed:
Most vegetables are suitable to parrots; Sweet corn but not the tinned salted type. Broccoli once a week, Peas in or out of the pod, Carrots, Cauliflower, Root vegetables like Potato Swede should be cooked without salt. Apple, Apricots fresh or dry remove stone, Banana remove the skin as sprayed with insecticides, Blackberry, Blueberry, Cherries remove pips, Chinese gooseberries or kiwi, Cherry tomatoes, ordinary tomatoes, Figs one once a week as high in iron, Grape / seedless green or black are fine, Mango / remove stone, Melon / Birds enjoy the seeds from Melons, Nectarine, Orange including Kumquats Papaya Peach remove stone, Pear, Pineapple, Plums / remove stone, Pomegranate pips are fine, Prune / remove stones, Raspberry, Strawberries, Boxed mini sun ripened sultanas / currants some parrots like to break into the box for the fruit. If your bird won't eat dry fruit try soaking them for 2hrs drain and serve. Some birds enjoy potatoes cooked in the jacket but make sure that all food is cool before serving to your bird Additional foods: One chicken thighbone (weekly) with a little meat attached, Egg (Weekly) hard boiled OR scrambled the egg yolk is higher in vitamins than the white of the egg. Do not give any raw eggs to birds. Pasta (uncooked) durum wheat or Corn Rice (cooked) can be mixed with the vegetables or fruit. Frozen blanched mixed vegetables; blanch with boiling water but make sure there is no ice left inside the thicker vegetables like carrots also that they have cooled enough to feed to your birds. All these mentioned above can and should be included in the birds diet. If different foods are rotated on a regular basis within a parrots diet this should not only help keep the bird from getting bored eating the same diet daily, but will more importantly help the bird in staying healthy. Lactobiles for healthy gut flora can be given via live bio yogurt or purchase a supplement called probiotics from your avian vet. I do not feed cabbage to my parrots as I feel that this maybe too strong and high in iron.



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