Just fed my budgies a huge branch of gum leaves and of course they dived right in. I was just wondering are gum leaves nutritious or just really tasty?

Wow I just mentioned gum leaves in another topic, all my birds just love them and the flowers and honky nuts too. I would think they would have to be nutritious in some way, the wild nomad budgie's, of Australia, main access to anything green would be the leaves of gum trees as they are mostly in inland dry areas. But I'm sure they taste great too.

And don't they have anti-mite qualities too?

They're really good for them! Merlin's not allowed any now :grbud:

I just thought that they wouldn't have much energy or anything. I asked because koala's who live on them have so little energy because they are mainly water or something like that. :grbud:

Wow I just mentioned gum leaves in another topic, all my birds just love them and the flowers and honky nuts too. I would think they would have to be nutritious in some way, the wild nomad budgie's, of Australia, main access to anything green would be the leaves of gum trees as they are mostly in inland dry areas. But I'm sure they taste great too.

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hi mr c...aren't you from perth, western australia?...i am too...lin said you were on the forums and i hadn't come accross a message from you before...i live in manning...nice to meet someone local

 

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jen

Mine love it! they eat of the leaves right at the stem, them preen themselves. i think there must be a lot of oils there. thats nice to know about the mite thing!

I saw the title of this one and thought 'Oh no, Bea's been eating gum leaves'

I'm not THAT strange!!