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  Budgies are little gourmets who love a wide variety concerning their food. But regrettably, many bird owners don't know what their budgies are allowed to eat. Due to this I created this brief list of fresh food stuff that is edible for any kind of pet bird. You can find more information on this complex topic in the nutrition chapter of Birds Online.

Healthy sorts of vegetables:
Aubergine (Egg plant) Broccoli Brussels sprouts (sliced) Cabbage turnip
Carrot Cauliflower Celery stalks Chard (Mangold)
Chicory Chinese Cabbage Corn (milky & soft) Cucumber
Curly kale Egg plant (Aubergine) Endive Fennel
Garlic Green peas (in their shells) Iceberg lettuce Jerusalem artichoke
Kohlrabi Lamb's lettuce Leek Lettuce (different sorts)
Onion Pak Choi Parsnip Peppers
Potato (cooked) Pumpkin Purslane (Portulaca) Radish
Red beet (fresh) Rocket (Roquette) Rutabaga Salsify (whole plant)
Snow Pea Sorrel Spinach Spring Onion
Sweet potato (cooked) Tomato Turnip tops (Turnip greens) Zucchini

Healthy sorts of fruit:
Apple Apricot Asian pear Banana
Blackberry Blackcurrant Black Elder Blood orange
Blueberry Canteloupe melon Cape gooseberry Carambola
Cherimoya Cherry Clementine Cranberry
Custard apple Dried dates1 Fig (fresh and dried)1 Gooseberry
Grape Grenadine Guava Honeydew melon
Huckleberry Japanese Persimmon Kiwifruit Loquat
Lychee (Litchi) Mandarin Mango Melon2
Mulberry3 Nectarine Opuntia fruit Orange
Papaya Peach Pear Persimmon, Japanese
Pineapple Plum Quince Rambutan
Raspberry Redcurrant Strawberry Tangerine
Tamarillo
(Tree tomato)
Yellow Plum    

1) You can get sugar free dried dates and figs in food stores that can be served to budgies as a sweet. Please do not give it to them too often because it contains a lot of fructose and your parakeets would become too fat.

2) Any kind of melon is a highly appreciated goody for all pet bird species. From water melon to honeydew melon and cantaloupe melon, everything can be served to your feathered friends.

3) Budgies not only love to eat the berries but also the leaves of the mulberry plant.

Please do never offer the following fruit to your budgies:

Avocado (too fatty and toxic for birds near kernel)
Fresh dates (they contain too much tanning agent)
Grapefruit, Pomelo (too much citric acid and bitter)
Kumquats (too acidic)
Passion fruit (nearly all sorts contain too much citric acid)
Japanese persimmons, unripe (contain too much tanning agent)
Lemon or Lime (too much citric acid)

Tasty herbs for budgies:
Basil Bear's garlic Borage Burnet
Carrot (green parts) Chervil Chives Coriander (green parts)
Cress Dill Fennel green parts) Lovage
Marjoran Melissa Mint Oregano
Parsley Purslane Roquette Rosemary
Sage Savory Tarragon Thyme

Link tip: Do you want to discuss with experts and other bird owners about your bird's health? Then please feel free to visit the English forum external link of Welli.net. Of course you will meet me there, too. My nickname is "Feenseeschwalbe".

 
 
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