Special Treats For Parrots/Meat

[Devin Corso]

I had a few questions about feeding Korra (African grey) and Yoshi (yellow-sided conure).

 

 

I go easy Cheeto treats for Korra because I know it's not the healthiest. Is meat ok to give Korra, because she LOVES it! It is meat sliced from the deli or in a box for sliced lunch/sandwich meat. Every time I go into the kitchen to make something she climbs up her cage, peaks her head around the corner, and says "Korra" in the sweetest voice as if to say "some for me too please."

 

Does anyone else have trouble feeding their parrots fruits and vegetables? Korra nor Yoshi will eat any fruits or vegetables. I have even gone to a salad bar and picked a little bit of everything so they can try it. They took a few nibbles of the boiled egg (REALLY weird haha), and Korra will occasionally eat cauliflower. I got a green pepper and stuffed it with millet to try to get her to eat something new, but she stared at it like it was going to rip her head off. I know African greys are like toddlers so I guess they don't like fruit or vegetables like toddlers either? :rolleyes:

 

Is 100% pineapple juice from the bottom of a pineapple chunks can ok to give Yoshi? It isn't the syrup stuff. I was eating the pineapple chunks one day and when I offered it to Yoshi she drank it right up!

Edited September 20, 2016 by Devin Corso

[judygram]

Any kind of human snack food is unhealthy for our fids so only give a smidgen once in a while, not every day or even every week, they have too much salt. Meat is ok in moderation but no lunch meats for the same reason, too much sodium and preservatives, a little chicken now and then is good and a chicken bone with a tiny bit of meat is very good, they will crack the bone and get the marrow inside.

 

You can try offering the different vegetables in various ways, cooked, raw, shredded, mashed or chopped up and mixed together as in a mash, some even put them into birdie breads but keep offering them.

[Giannine]

I agree with Judygram...I am hesitant to even offer Poppy unhealthy foods because I'm afraid it will spoil her appetite for healthy foods which she enjoys. I would say if you give her junk food, it should be on the rare occasion rather than regularly. You have a better chance getting her to eat vegetables if you are not offering the unhealthy foods. I give a bowl of chopped up mixed vegetables to my birds every morning and also put vegetables in the birdie bread I make them. You might want to look up a birdie bread recipe and make that for them...maybe you'll have better luck

[Devin Corso]

I haven't given her Cheetos for a while, I don't want her to think it's an every day thing.

 

I have good news! Korra and I are having a special day, so she has been out since 7:30am (now 4:30pm where I am)! I tied 2 carrots and a piece of a fresh baked chicken wing (with bone) to her perch. She flew off and wouldn't get off me until she was far away from it. She seems to get scared of food a lot. I kept encouraging her, and acting like I was eating it (and loving it) and she eventually stepped onto the edge of the perch. It took a few hours and I went to take out the dogs. When I came back she had eaten 1/4 of the chicken! I'm so happy that we may have found a new treat for her!

 

This is her at first. Scared, skinny, and looking at me for reassurance.

 

This is her a few hours later! Happy as a clam, and puffier than a pom-pom!

[SRSeedBurners]

Yeah, mine will go crazy over chicken bones. Carniverous fools.

[murfchck]

Chicken bones are like Christmas morning here! There are only 2 that don't care much for them but eat them anyway because the others are and they are not going to miss out! Nothing from a can is good for them, way to much salt, which they can not process. So even though someone says, I have been giving that to them for years and they are fine, they are not fine. Over time is when the effects will rear their ugly head and by then it is to late.

I make a veggie chop. The base is Kale, spinach, carrots, beets with the leaves, dandelions, green and red peppers and broccoli. From there I add the seasonal veggies like acorn squash, zucchinis, sweet potatoes and what ever has good color! We add fruit to that when we serve it, not before or it gets soggy. I will mix it with sprouts or wild rice for dinner, in the morning they get it alone with some fruits and sprouts.

[Greywings]

You can add chopped veggies to an omlette or scrambled eggs for them and you have a healthy meal as well. You can toss with Pasta (WHOLE GRAIN IS GOOD) then add a little coconut oil or red palm oil.