Phosphorus

 

In combination with calcium, phosphorus is necessary for the formation of bones, the nerve cells and kidney function.

Phosphorus is second to calcium in abundance in the body.

Fruits:

Kiwi Tomatoes Blackberries Bananas Strawberry

Orange Peach Lime Rockmelon

 

Vegetables:

Lima Beans Peas Corn Broccoli Kale Sweet potato

 

Nuts:

Sunflower Seeds Brazil Nuts Cashews Pine Nuts/Pignolias

Pistachios Almonds Peanuts Walnuts Chestnuts Pecans

Macadamias Filberts/Hazelnuts Pumpkin Seeds

 

HERBS: Burdock root, turkey rhubarb, slippery elm bark.

An over abundance of phosphorous will produce a deficiency in calcium in the body as they work in ratios. Thus a diet with high phosphorus levels will cause hypocalcaemia. Birds fed with high phosphorus diets while breeding, will tend to have chicks with fibrous osteodystrophy, thin eggshells etc etc, all the things that are associated with hypocalcaemia. Corn has a very high ratio of phosphorus to calcium and should not be fed in huge quantities. It is somewhere in the region of 72:1 phosphorus to calcium. We had a case at one of our native reserves where the Kaka parrots only ate the corn in the feed provided for them and all their chicks had fibrous osteodystrophy. They were wild birds, but the corn was in supplemental food at feed stations.

Becareful with berries always buy them organic not sprayed as they hold the pesticides and can be toxic. . Good information Neat and SW.