Guest kris1976 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Hi I have just baought my first budgie in 4 years and was wondering if you can give budgies cauliflower? What other vegies are best for budgies? Kris Link to comment
Guest kris1976 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Thanks I can believe how quickly you forget all this stuff its like starting from scratch (i guess I am) Thanks again Link to comment
Elly 0 Posted June 28, 2007 Member ID: 1,641 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 15,350 Content Per Day: 2.23 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 99,335 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2007 (edited) Yes you can. Most types of fruit and vegetable are safe but you should always search online or in a book before you feed something to your budgie. Some vegetables that are commonly fed are lettuce, carrot, broccoli, sprouts, snow peas, spinach and celery. Lettuce and celery shouldn't be fed too often as they are mostly water and can cause diarrhoea. Some safe vegetables are rock melon, banana, mandarin, orange and apple. Be sure never to feed your budgie apple seeds or avocado as these are toxic to them. Click here for a varity of articles from our BBC FAQ section Click here for safe veggies Click here for safe fruits Edited June 28, 2007 by Elly Link to comment
ORCA 0 Posted June 28, 2007 Member ID: 2,477 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 65 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 510 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/07/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 24, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Yes you can. Most types of fruit and vegetable are safe but you should always search online or in a book before you feed something to your budgie. Some vegetables that are commonly fed are lettuce, carrot, broccoli, sprouts, snow peas, spinach and celery. Lettuce and celery shouldn't be fed too often as they are mostly water and can cause diarrhoea. Some safe vegetables are rock melon, banana, mandarin, orange and apple. Be sure never to feed your budgie apple seeds or avocado as these are toxic to them. Click here for a varity of articles from our BBC FAQ section Click here for safe veggies Click here for safe fruits Elly, I just noticed that on the link they mention "Aubergine(eggplant)" as safe veggies while it is under the unsafe food article on the forum (Pinned ) so is it safe or not? Link to comment
Elly 0 Posted June 28, 2007 Member ID: 1,641 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 15,350 Content Per Day: 2.23 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 99,335 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2007 You know what when I see it conflicting like that I usually simply don't feed it unless members on this board that I know have fed it to their birds with no issues. A lot of things that are labeled harmful are more for insectide reasons...like raspberries because their skin is so porous is recommended ONLY organic. Hope that makes sense. Link to comment
ORCA 0 Posted June 29, 2007 Member ID: 2,477 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 65 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 510 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/07/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 24, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2007 thanks Elly. Link to comment
Lynn 0 Posted September 1, 2007 Member ID: 2,658 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 6 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 60 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/08/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 16, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Hi, We have found that our birds like dandelion leaves. Are there any other garden plants that budgies might like. Some of the books say they can be offered chickweed, but ours do not like chickweed. Lynn Link to comment
Elly 0 Posted September 1, 2007 Member ID: 1,641 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 15,350 Content Per Day: 2.23 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 99,335 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2007 If you have a garden a lot of what you grow is very healthy for them. As for weeds and such I would be careful about pesticides that are sprayed on them. Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted September 1, 2007 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Hi, We have found that our birds like dandelion leaves. Are there any other garden plants that budgies might like. Some of the books say they can be offered chickweed, but ours do not like chickweed. Lynn You can use their discarded seed to sprout in apot and feed them the green that grow from that. You can feed them leaves and branches from the peppermint tree, eucalyptus branches and leaves. They also like hibiscus and bottlebrush PS re vegies. Mine go bananas over sweetcorn, bok choy, pak choy, spinach and grated carrot. :ausb: Link to comment
Bea 0 Posted September 1, 2007 Member ID: 860 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 400 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4,240 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,695 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/03/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 22, 2009 Birthday: 12/09/1989 Share Posted September 1, 2007 You can use their discarded seed to sprout in apot and feed them the green that grow from that. I do this quite often, although only the aviary birds will eat them. Blink and Oz must be snobs. :ausb: All mine love a freshly picked and washed leafy branch from a gum tree. They all go nuts for the leaves. Link to comment
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