Randy-Female African Grey Parrot

african grey parrot diet

African grey parrot diet need a large variety in their diets. They should have a good combination of pellets, seeds, fresh fruits and vegetables. Fresh water should be available at all times. Versele’ Laga African Grey Parrot food is specially formulated for African Greys with a well-balanced variety of seeds, fruits and nuts. You could also use the Marltons Parrots food – with chilli or fruit & nut. Both of these products can be found at your local Stodels Garden Centres.

African grey parrot diet are prone to calcium deficiency, so calcium levels should be monitored at a yearly vet check. Calcium supplements should not be used, except under the advice of a veterinarian, but it can be beneficial to feed a variety of calcium-rich foods such as leafy green vegetables (kale, mustard greens, Swiss chard, spinach). You can also add a Marltons calcium perch to your parrot’s cage which your parrot can chew on and gain calcium from. For added minerals you could put a Marltons fruit-flavoured mineral block in your parrot’s cage. Stodels has great parrot-related specials every month.

Seeds
Although wild African grey parrots have access to seeds all year round, the types of seeds they feed on change throughout the year as different plants come into season. The commercial seed mixes offered to many captive parrots tend to be high in fat and deficient in many nutrients. If these mixes are fed as the only source of food, African grey parrots could become ill and ultimately die prematurely. To make matters worse, birds will often pick through a large bowl of commercial seed mix and selectively eat one or two “favorite” types of seeds, limiting their nutrient intake even further. They often preferentially choose peanuts and sunflower seeds that are particularly high in fat and deficient in calcium, vitamin A, and other nutrients. Their selective appetite can further predispose them to malnutrition.

Seeds should only be 20-40% of a balanced diet. In addition, only a couple of ‘tree type nuts’, such as almonds, walnuts, or Brazil nuts, should be offered daily. If you gradually offer fewer seeds while replacing them with more nutritious choices, your bird will start eating other foods.

Parrot Premium Professional Seed is one of the most nutritious seed diets around. This tasty mix has been developed to our exact standards and contains rowan berries, elderberries, melon seed and more. It even has added extruded pellets in case your Parrot is missing any nutrition elsewhere in their diet.Prepare a delicious meal for your Parrot with sprouting seed. Simply soak for a couple of days, rinse and serve