Daily nutritions ❃ 

The basis
If you want your petbird to be healthy it's important to make sure it gets all it's necessary nutrients.  You can achive this to give a well balanced diet.

A healthy petbird gets nutrition containing:

  ♦ Pellets 
♦ A varied (organic) seedmix
♦  Fresh fruit and vegetables
(♦ Every day fresh water)

How to: learn to eat fruit/vegetables

Maybe you've already tried to give your beloved parrot some fruit or vegetables. But unfortunately this can be harder then expected most of the time. Mine were picky too. It takes a lot of time and effort to get your parrot to eat healthy if they are not used to it. It's better to give more veggies than fruit because most of the fruit kinds are very high in sugar. So what did I do to get my lovebirds to eat healthy. First of all I acted like I ate all the veggies and fruit first, then they became interested and wanted to try it for theirselfs, since then they found out it was really tasty. You could also try to cut everything in really small pieces, at least if you also have a small bird. (For large parrots you could just wash the fruit/vegetables and give it.) . You could try making smaller pieces with for example an apple, most do like apple. And cut this almost as small as seeds and then put it in a bowl and you could also sprinkle nutriberries or mix some seeds on top.

What not to feed ☢

 Favorite healthy meal(s)

Yes that's correct! My 3 lovebirds do have their favorite HEALHTY meal. Well, not even just one meal. They like several kinds of veggies and fruits so I give them daily. Did you know that your lovebird can live up to 25 to 30 years with the right care and diet! So here are two recipes of the meals my lovebirds prefer mostly.

(Oh! And  I have this helpful advice! Giving fresh fruit or veggies can cause a lot of mess and dirtiness. Use an old or new bathtub that are made to hang on the cage. This is such a helpful solution! You can put the tub full of yammy veggies and just hang it on their cage, without getting all the mess on the bottom :)!
First meal:

♦ Apple ♦ Scrumbled nutriberries on top. ♦ Broccoli ♦ Figs

Second meal:
♦ Hempseeds ♦ Pumpkinseeds ♦ Sprouty seedmix ♦ Quinoa ♦ Carrots ♦ Peas
Enjoy!

Homemade nutriberries

Recipe:

✏️ 1. any kind of seeds and pellets (prefer Harisson's) both 3 to 4 tablespoons. You can let the pellets soak in water for 15 mins before adding them so they are softer.
2. you need dried fruit like cranberries, mango, papaya or corn but you can use any kind of dried vegetables/fruit, these needs to be cut in small pieces add 2 to 3 tablespoons.
3. You can choose to add prestige snackmix this also contains fruit and eggfood (optional) 1 tablespoons.
4. A mix with small nuts (from vitakraft) 1 teaspoon (optional).
5. I mix all these ingredients together in a bowl.
6. then I add one teaspoon of palm nut oil (optional)
7. Next take 1 to 2 tablespoons of self-raising flower and add this to mixture.
8. To make it extra sticky add 1 or 2 teaspoons of honey.
9. Mix it together and shape them like berries, if it doesnt stick together well enough add more honey and flower. If correct you got more then 12 berries.
10. Then but them in the oven on a baking plate with bakery paper on 180 degrees for 10 to 15 mins.

Vegetables sprouts

Recently I discovered my lovebirds really enjoy eating vegetables sprouts, so I defenitely want to recommend this healty meal!
In the left picture I gave: broccoli, with red cabbage and broccoli sprouts.
In the right picture I gave: broccoli, with green radish, regular redish and leek sprouts. 
Sprouts are comparable with baby vegetables. Compared to fully grown vegetables they contain a lot more vitamins, minerals, enzyme and proteins. So it surely is a healthy meal and benefits their health!

Treats

Treats are very helpful when you are trying to learn your lovebird something. For example to get them to step up your finger. Treats are easy to use as reward for good behaviour. Because your parrot get's a treat it knows it has done something good and it will repeat that behaviour because it wants a treat. That's also why it's very important to only give treats when your parrot does something you want it to do. Otherwise it does not have the right effect and your parrot can get to thick if you give treats away easily. But treats don't have to be full of sugar and other bad ingredients. You can also use pellets. Here a couple of treats:

♦ Pellets ♦ Millet ♦ Nutriberries ♦ Seeds ♦ Dried fruit / vegetables ♦ Fruit cups ♦ Sugar cane ♦

Homemade parrotbread

Recipe for this delicious homemade parrotbread:
 ♦ 1 banana  ♦ 1 egg with shell  ♦ 100 grams flower  ♦ hand full of unsalted nuts  ♦ 2 to 3 tablespoons cocosnutoil  ♦ 1 tablespoon palmnutoil  ♦ hand full of dried fruit (pineapple papaya cocosnut apple mango) sliced in small pieces.  ♦ pellets

Steps:
Make the dried fruit and nuts in very small pieces. Then pulverize the banana until its liquid.Wash the egg and but it in a bowl (raw) with the crunched shell (very! small pieces of the shell). Mix the other ingredients (dried fruit, nuts, 100 grams of flower, cocosnutoil and palmoil) with it. Put the mix in small cupcakes. Decorate the top with some pellets or extra dried fruit. Then put them in the oven at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes. This recipe is for about 8 parrotbread cupcakes :)

Good luck!

The right weight

For your bird is eating a right and varied diet very important, because this can give it the perfect weight. Not giving your bird a proper diet can cause him getting over- or underweighted. That is why it is important to make sure you have a scale at home that you normally use for example in the kitchen to weight ingredients.  The right weight depends on what kind of bird you have and also if it is a male or female. Most femalebirds are a little bigger than malebirds and that also makes them heavier. Weighting your bird everyday at the same time (prefer in the morning before eating) assures you to see if your bird has gained or losed more wait than is healthy. It also makes sense in knowing if you need to change the diet. If your bird weights to less you can choose to give a diet which is a little higher in fat, and the same opposite way if your bird is to thick.

Some right weights per species:
♦  Budgie: 35 - 45 grams
♦  Parrotlet: 30 -35 grams
♦  (peachfaced) lovebird: 46 - 63 grams
♦  Indian ringneck: 130 - 150 grams
♦  Cockatiel: 80 - 110 grams
♦ Conures: 90 - 120

Pellets