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sun flower seeds if the parrot eats too many can cause lots of health worries. such as feather plucking bein a obese parrot. calcium deficiency and a few other problems. i take out nearly all the sunflower seeds in his food as they can be a sunflower seed junkie this is not good .if they are a sunflower seed junkie take away the sunflowers and put a diff things in food bowls but do this gradually. a friend of mines ag is a sunflower junkie he keeps on plucking his out and wont eat nothing else but them. until i took some food round for him to try hes now off the sunflowers and will be fine now with diff food. with new owners of birds its just trial and error of what they like and what not to give them .

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Guest Lidia

There is huge debate about this between the seedies and the pelleties.

Joshua is a seedy, and has been raised on a seed-based diet. I make sure he gets his seed in the morning and evening but in between he gets a very varied diet to supplement it.

Joshua is in perfect health. Certainly not obese and a magnificent aeronaut. His feathers are glossy. He has never feather plucked.

He is 18 years old and I have had him since he was four months old.

Plucking is a frustration and boredom activity. I suppose if you gave a bird a 100 percent sunflower seed diet it might pluck out of boredom, but if you gave it that diet plucking would probably be the least of its problems!

Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to rely on a manufactured product if you don't have easy access to a supply of it (I don't).

Pellets provide a balanced diet but if you are providing the right balance in other ways then that is perfectly all right.

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I give Nikko a few sunflower seeds a day, maybe 5-10. They have some good fats in them that are essential to a bird. She likes them, but I think she could take them or leave them. She prefers nuts, like almonds and pine nuts.

 

I agree with Lidia, so long as a grey has a varied well-balanced diet, seeds are fine in moderation and won't cause any problems.<br><br>Post edited by: spookyhurst, at: 2007/07/17 17:23

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  • 8 months later...

Was Magicalem saying spray millet or spraying the sunflower seeds with a multi vitamin before offering them to Sensei? The spray millet is fine but I don't know about the spray vitamin on the seeds especially if the seed is in the shell, they don't eat the shell just the nut.:huh:

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I meant spraying his sunflower seeds (I have moved on to the sunflower seeds that u buy in supermarkets for human consumption as there better by sounds of it..) but I spray them with his multi vitamin spray so I knwo he is getting some as he eats all them seeds lol... is this not goot.... what is spray pellet?????? xx

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brilliant I wont thats fab thanx for info..... I know about the sunflowers but i know he is def picking at them so getting supplments... also, are pine nuts ok as they said there really good for human etc... also... pruns can anyone tell me if anygood....? xxxx

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