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What foods can budgies eat besides seeds, calcium bells and honey sticks?

Here is a little list that may help ;)

 

Healthy sorts of vegetables:

Broccoli

Brussels sprouts

Carrot

Celery stalks

Chard

Chicory

Chinese Cabbage

Corn (milky & soft)

Cucumber

Curly kale

Egg plant

Endive

Fennel

Jerusalem

artichoke

Kohlrabi

Lamb's lettuce

Paprika

Potato (cooked)

Radish Red Beet (fresh)

Salad

Spinach

Tomato

Zucchini

 

Healthy sorts of fruit:

Apple

Apricot

Asian pear

Banana

Blackberry

Blackcurrant

Black Elder

Blood orange

Blueberry

Canteloupe melon

Cape gooseberry

Carambola

Cherimoya

Cherry Clementine

Cranberry

Custard apple

Dried date1

Fig (fresh)

Gooseberry

Grape

Grenadine

Guava

Honeydew melon

Huckleberry

Japanese Persimmon

Loquat

Lychee (Litchi)

Mandarin

Mango

Melon

Nectarine

Opuntia fruit

Orange

Papaya

Peach

Pear

Persimmon,Japanese

Pineapple

Plum

Quince

Rambutan

Raspberry

Redcurrant

Strawberry

Tangerine

Tamarillo

(Tree tomato)

Yellow Plum

 

Tasty herbs:

Basil

Bear's garlic

Borage

Burnet

Carrot

(green parts) Chervil

Chives

Coriander (green parts)

Cress

Dill

Fennel(green parts)

Lovage

Marjoran

Mint

Oregano

Parsley

Purslane

Roquette

Rosemary

Sage

Savory

Tarragon

Thyme

Honey sticks should be seen as a treat and not normal everyday food ;)

Also check out the FAQ about nutrition and the ratios of what should be what in their diet.

And looking through the Food and Nutriition forum is another excellent way to gain more knowledge ;).

You have been given great advice ... Also there is a section in the Food & Nutrition that has members recipes ... But like Kaz said keep those Hanging seed bells, stick etc as a "special treat" most one from the store say they have honey in them .... BUT I have Found some breeders and people that sell them at the markets and etc use GLUE in them to stick the seeds together ...

 

( there is a recipe in here too on how to make your own HONEY AND GLUE FREE Hanging stick :D )

 

Welcome by the way ... :hi: Hope you find your stay here fun and enjoyable ....

With the Honey sticks yes some people use Glue to stick them together and this causes nose or cere bleeds in birds (I have one that looks at a honey stick and gets a nose bleed)

 

So I would make your own check and double check the product, most that list themselves as organic I have found work the best or I just make my own not that hard and if you have pet birds I let them play on the bench while I am making it and they clean up the split seed!

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