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How To Give Your Cockatiel A Balanced Diet

Cockatiels should be maintained. As the owner of a pet, you know, you should see the health of your Cockatiel to give the highest priority. Your pet's health depends on the diet. In the wild, birds do with what they do not find. For this reason, you should include a variety of things in their diet to stay as close as possible to their natural diet as possible

On the other hand, can eat your Cockatiel, most things you eat. Cockatiels feed mainly on seeds, berries, fruit,Nuts and flowers. Sometimes they can thrive on the basic diet of seeds and pellets alone. You do not need special food, but must be "specific nutrients. One should add more vegetables and fruits to your diet Cockatiel. These are sources of additional nutrition.

The growth of the Cockatiel, depends on your diet. Apart from growth, reproduction, temperament and longevity also depend on the diet. Thus, a balanced diet is very important to a formlovable, healthy and life-long companion.

To put it briefly, a "Cockatiel balanced diet should have" equal parts of pellets, seeds and vegetables, with a small quantity of fruits, nuts, protein, cooked rice, bean mixture, and table food like cheese, corn, cereals, pasta, meat etc. The diet should all have it (that's why I said, they can most of the things that you eat eat!).

Pellets

Pellets can be up to 60% of your diet is Cockatiel. In fact, someCockatiels thrive on a pellet diet. You should hold pellets in the food court all day and night. Pellets are a must as they help your bird a balanced diet.

Seeds

Most cockatiels for how bulk canary seed, oats, mixed sunflower seeds, hemp and panicum millets. If your bird with only a seed diet on a daily basis, it
leads to lack of vitamins. Thus, a supplement of vitamins are necessary in this case.

A healthy mixNutrition

A healthy mixed diet has them all ... Cooked 25% vitamin-enriched seed mix, 25% pellets, 25% vegetables, dark leafy vegetables and fruit, 15% rice, corn, and eat bean mixture, 10% table, cereal, bread, pasta, cheese, meat, etc.

Vegetables

Vegetables can be fed green, dark green, orange, yellow, or fleshy. Fresh vegetables provide additional nutrition for your Cockatiel. To encourage your Cockatiel to eat vegetables. Some of those covered by thisCategory are: carrots, sweet potatoes, beets, broccoli, vegetables, peppers, asparagus, ripe tomatoes, spinach, etc.

Fruits

Some of the Cockatiel owner of this general query. "How can I eat fruit my birds?" Fruits are the natural supplements for your cockatiels. So it would be a good idea
introduction to fruit for your pet. Initially, it may refuse, but later it will start to eat fruits. Some of the desired fruits are apples, pears, peaches, pomegranates, bananas,Berries, plums, oranges, kiwis, citrus fruits, grapes, raisins, etc.

Nuts

A Cockatiel prefers nuts, fruits. For this reason, some nuts are ideal treats. You can crack hard nuts, and you should encourage them to do so. You can give them all the nuts
Love how they crack the shell to extract, to the seed. Their beaks are specially adapted for this function, which could also be a form of entertainment.

Water

Water is as important as food. Make sure your bird drinks wateron a daily basis. Do not forget to leave fresh water in the cage at all times.

Proteins

As I said, it is important that your bird receives all necessary nutrients. And proteins are an important supplement that aids growth. You can also give your bird, foods high in protein, such as legumes, boiled eggs and grated cheese. Brussels sprouts, ripe tomatoes, cooked beans, spinach are some of the other sources. You can also feed the freshly cooked lean beef, chicken or fish in smallQuantities. Occasionally, you can give your Cockatiel cooked meat bones.

Vitamins and Minerals

If your bird food has a variety of nutrients, then supplement of vitamins and minerals is not necessary. In fact, it is better to consult an avian veterinarian before
You give your bird vitamin supplements, since an overdose of vitamins and minerals will do more harm than good.

Now that all known that you can give your Cockatiel, please let us know whatshould be avoided.

AVOID

Do not feed your Cockatiel alcohol, parsley and avocados (as they are toxic to cockatiels). Seeds high in sunflower and safflower oil, should be avoided as these very rich in fat. Keep
Your bird away from chocolate and caffeine. Iceberg lettuce and cabbage can cause diarrhea in your pet. Other foods to avoid spicy meat or fat meat and sausages. All this can cause your pet serious health problems.

Other important tips

Note thatjust eating them is not enough, but you must make sure that they eat what is given them.

Do not add too much milk in their diet, as some birds are lactose intolerant and could get diarrhea. You can give them tofu, low-fat and fat-free cottage cheese and yogurt in small quantities.

If you are not even pellets / vitamins / mineral supplements in their diet, you should a bird spreading powdered vitamin-mineral supplement to their dietonce a week. This would avoid deficiencies. Although a calcium block and a mineral block should normally serve this purpose, these birds are known to destroy the blocks.

Do not remain on fruit and vegetables in the cage for more than two hours.

Give them nuts and peanuts, often because of these very high in fat and make your pet is obese, when are overfed. Can not be left dry for more than one days.

Nuts will keep in a safe since I keep the contents dry and safeRodents. Rodent excreta transmitted diseases such as salmonellosis.

Clean food and water bowls are kept in the cage thoroughly every day. Disinfect with bleach you wash them (and thoroughly) per week.

Some cockatiels have a tendency to be overweight, so you need to properly monitor their food and nutrition. Keep to a low fat diet and include a variety of greens. Improve not the volume, as overfeeding will make them choosy and they also wasteFood.

Cockatiels are prone to tipping over their bowls. The use of heavy ground feed and water bowls to serve just fine.

With all these tips, I think you could give your Cockatiel with the best food.

The above is an excerpt from the free newsletter on "Definitive Guide To Cockatiels" published by Geostar Publishing & Services LLC.



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