Important Components In Parrot Food

You must pay attention at the parrot food problems, because most parrots have high temperament (easily angered) when faced with something unpleasant, including the food problems. To make sure your parrot stay healthy all the time, here are some tips for you:

1. Provide fresh water in the cage

To ensure the cleanliness of drinking water for your parrot, try to always replace the water container every day. You should also use the same container, but must be cleaned every time you want to fill it with water.

Parrot love to ruffle object nearby them, no exception for the drinking water in the container. In fact, some parrot like to dip grains or vegetables that is in their beak into the water, thus making the water dirty very quickly. Not just dirty, the potential for bacteria to enter the water is very high, so it can harm the health of your parrot. The cleanliness of the water container is also important. Even if you regularly change the water into the container, it become useless if the container never replaced or at least washed.

To wash the drinking container, you should start with hot water to remove all the dirt on the surface of the container. Better yet, if you use a non-detergent soap. After that, wash it again with hot water, if necessary, use a disinfectant and let the container to dry. To make it dry faster, you can use a hairdryer. You should boil the water before put it in the container to kill harmful bacteria. It is better if you use waer from a gallon of mineral water.

2. Fresh fruits and vegetables

You should provide fresh food in the cage every day, because it is the important menu that should be given to the parrot. There is no food that can guarantee the balance of nutrients such as vegetables. Fruits are also good, but a few pieces have a very high sugar content with a low nutritional value, so you must be selective in choosing the fruit. For example, grape. This fruit is very popular for parrots. Grape is very sweet and favored by most of the parrots. But the grape is less than helpful in maintaining a healthy parrot compared to other fruits.

Vegetables that good for parrots such as green vegetables (green beans, broccoli, etc.), vegetables with dark green leaf color (radish), and orange vegetables (carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes). This food should be provided every day. As an addition, you can give one or two other types of vegetables or fruits. For example, corn and peas. However, because of the high sugar content, it should not be too frequent.

3. Pellet

Considering that not all parrots have the same tastes, pellets can also given to ensure adequate nutrition. If your parrot does not like vegetables, you can give pellets. Some parrot like to eat pellet instead of fresh food. The good pellet is the one which colorless, because the color usually contain chemicals, and even sugar. Although parrot prefers food color, we can train them to consume natural colored pellets (light brown to dark brown).

4. Mixture of grains

Grains are not always served as the main food for parrots. Most of the large parrots just eat it as a snack. Even if parrots have not consume grains, you should never give it. Most of the small parrots, which naturally often consume grains, you should give it for their food.

Hopefully this article about important components in parrot food is helpful for you and can help you in captivating parrot at home.