Giving Your Bird Too Much Seed Is Not a Good Diet

This is a very important topic for all parrot and bird owners.

Giving your bird a seed only diet is not a good, period!

It is like feeding your child potato chips every day for his entire life. Think of how sickly your child would be on a diet of that. He would develop malnutrition over a period of time and eventually die at a young age.

Unfortunately, when I bought my first cockatiel 14 years ago, I was told by the pet shop that a bag of cockatiel seed would be just fine for him. But this was not the case. At an older age around 7 my bird was developing health problems. He would become exhausted and weak when he would fly really fast with the other bird.

I changed him to a pellet diet of 3 different kinds mixed and crushed together to get him to eat a proper diet. Pellets are a must diet for your birds. It's like the meat and potatoes of the human diet. I also gave him and still do give him some fresh fruit and veggies on a daily basis Plus Birdie Bread I make homemade with an essential oil mix of 1 part flaxseed oil to 4 parts olive oil. I put just a drop on the birdie bread. Cockatiels can live to be 30 years old!

I still need to give my first cockatiel some supplements on a daily basis so he can keep up with his young friend of half his age. 14 is consided a young age for a cockatiel.

By the way. I do not recommend purchasing birds for pets. I recommend adopting one. There are so many abused and unwanted birds out there that need a loving home. Please adopt an unwanted parrot. Please do not buy.

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