Parrot Diet & Enrichment

I love ❤️ your videos they are so informative and Smoky is cute! Thanks for all your valuable information

So, I’m getting a cockatiel, and I’m confused whether I should or shouldn’t have a food bowl. Should I use foraging toys only?

Great ideas thanks

I need help I adopted a 9 year old African grey and he was fed only dry cookie fruit blends….. and I have gotten him a more rounded blend with seeds and nuts etc but getting him interested in fresh food has been difficult. Only had success with plaintains and sweet potato and an occasional beet.

I wish you would’ve talked more about the actual diet that you feed your bird, I don’t recall you mentioning the granola looking bites…
can you please do an updated version & go into depth on the diet of what you prefer & what you might recommend for a well rounded diet. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Love your informative videos!

We didn't have pellets back in the 60's, 70's, 80's & before. We actually fed our bird's what they ate in the wild but more modified for captivity because they weren't burning off the calories. We reduced the fat by limiting nuts. The pet food industry weren't going to let us believe we didn't need them. They came out with all of this stuff with added dyes, sugar, sodium which is all bad, very bad. Organic? really? Prove it. They can't, we are suppose to take their word for it, like we did w/Monsanto. Trust the Pet food industry? No way. I wouldn't feed my bird's 80% pallets. If you don't have the time to provide all of your bird's nutrients each meal then don't get a bird. They are birds, not horses & cows. Remember, they eat like a bird. Be responsible for all of your birds nutrients, it's not brain surgery. Nowadays people want convenience for everything. Well, I'm sorry but that just isn't what's best for your birds. Research folks. Research. Do your own research & you shall see.

i wud like to know about the water feeder what type to use ?
some use bottles n some use containers.
thank you bro,
from Singapore !

How would you suggest to switch your parrot from a seed diet to a pellet diet? I understand a portion transition such as 1/5 4/5 until it is a completely a pellet diet, but wondering if you have a suggestion method. Thank you!

Very informative and interesting. Thank you

Really great ideas and video!

Smokey is the best cared for parrot I have ever seen. The only thing I don't like about the diet you present here is Roudybush. Roudybush used to list Ethoxyquin as a preservative. Although it is not listed on the redesigned label (redesigned maybe a decade ago?) that does not mean that it is not still an ingredient. There is no law that requires manufactures of pet foods to list it and since it is toxic, manufacturers know that customers might not buy the product if they see this ingredient. Additionally, and more of a for-sure problem than the potential ethoxyquin is the Menadione (synthetic vitamin K). This weird, synthetic form of vitamin K is not allowed in human foods because it is hepatatoxic (toxic to the liver). Harrison's does not contain synthetic vitamin K. Vitamin K is found in green leafy veggies and, at least in mammals is made in the GI tract by beneficial bacteria. As long as a parrot is on a fresh, species appropriate diet, they will foster the right GI bacteria for their species (I assume).