Lou1sGCC
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Just wanted to know what ya'll feed your green cheek conure fruits and veggies. Not sure what to feed my green cheek with veggies but I feed him apple, strawberry, and plum.
What veggies and fruit do you feed your green cheek conure?
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You should limit fruit to a couple times a week and feed a majority of vegetables. Fruit has a lot of sugar which in low quantities is healthy and delicious but too much can cause problems.
You can feed almost any vegetable, cut up into bite size pieces. In my current batch of chop I have... broccoli, cauliflower, corn, peas, carrots, green beans, and yellow pepper. You can feed all kinds of things, and they really do thrive on variety.
The only things to AVOID are: avocado, onion, garlic and rhubarb, as these are toxic to parrots!
You can feed almost any vegetable, cut up into bite size pieces. In my current batch of chop I have... broccoli, cauliflower, corn, peas, carrots, green beans, and yellow pepper. You can feed all kinds of things, and they really do thrive on variety.
The only things to AVOID are: avocado, onion, garlic and rhubarb, as these are toxic to parrots!
Jen5200
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Absolutely agree with above! It took a bit of experimenting to get my conures to eat their veggies - my 3 will only eat veggies chopped into itty bitty pieces. I use a variety and change it up all the time so that they don’t get bored: broccoli, cauliflower, peas, carrots, corn, peppers, squash, kale, collard greens, cooked sweet potatoes, pumpkin and anything else that’s safe for them. Their chop is mostly veggies and I mix a little bit of fruit in for flavour: apples, pomegranate, mango, berries, melon, etc.
Peppers are a great source of vitamins AND they're easy to offer.
Common wisdom is that parrots have such poor taste and smell that hot peppers really excite and stimulate them. And they're very healthy (lots of good green and great nutrents)! So I give the Rickeybird lots! The only downside... when he eats a pepper, then preens, then wants to cudddle, it's a very incendiary experience.
I buy several kinds...
Poblanos, to stuff the end between the bars tightly (above a perch) so the Rbird can nibble at his leisure.
Jalapenos and Serranos, to toss into the cage's snack-bowl, to trick him into entering so I can shut the door. There's no such thing as a chile that isn't good for them. If he absolutely does NOT want to go back into his cage, a big fat Anaheim will always do the trick.
I posted a video of the bird eating one in the thread about beak flavors, and you can hear me sneezing!
Common wisdom is that parrots have such poor taste and smell that hot peppers really excite and stimulate them. And they're very healthy (lots of good green and great nutrents)! So I give the Rickeybird lots! The only downside... when he eats a pepper, then preens, then wants to cudddle, it's a very incendiary experience.
I buy several kinds...
Poblanos, to stuff the end between the bars tightly (above a perch) so the Rbird can nibble at his leisure.
Jalapenos and Serranos, to toss into the cage's snack-bowl, to trick him into entering so I can shut the door. There's no such thing as a chile that isn't good for them. If he absolutely does NOT want to go back into his cage, a big fat Anaheim will always do the trick.
I posted a video of the bird eating one in the thread about beak flavors, and you can hear me sneezing!
Jen5200
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Mine were very picky, so don’t get offended if they don’t eat it right off. I started by chopping up a bit of one veggie into fruit that I knew they liked to trick them into trying it, and then gradually shifted the proportions until they were on more veg than fruit. Then continued to add more things gradually. It can be a bit of a process to introduce new foods. My first two conures are skeptical of anything new in their bowl. My third seems to know that anything in the bowl is food and just eats it
Mine all came to me on a seed diet, and over time they have grown to love their chop and pellets
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Thank you for your response. Might try out your trick. Yea I was just worried they won't eat certain ones at all. I'll chop up a variety for them and let them chose what they like.
Mine were very picky, so don’t get offended if they don’t eat it right off. I started by chopping up a bit of one veggie into fruit that I knew they liked to trick them into trying it, and then gradually shifted the proportions until they were on more veg than fruit. Then continued to add more things gradually. It can be a bit of a process to introduce new foods. My first two conures are skeptical of anything new in their bowl. My third seems to know that anything in the bowl is food and just eats it
Mine all came to me on a seed diet, and over time they have grown to love their chop and pellets
Stephen777
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I was told to boil an egg, cut it in half then give a half to the bird, shell and all.
Caitnah
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NOT trying to hi-jack the thread but, as much as I have read about owners feeding egg shells, Dr. Harrison (Harrison Pellets) said not to, as it can cut their crops.
BUT he doesn't mention if he meant large pieces or Pulverized.
Squeekmouse
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Broccoli, raw or steamed all you need to do is tear off a bit of broccoli, rip it into peices and toss it in the dish at dinner time and viola, your bird is eating healthy veggies! Peas, diced carrots, green beans are all even easier. Sure fresh is better, but a bag of frozen mixed veggies is cheap and easy and better than nothing, right? Peppers, the part we normally throw away (the inner stuff with the seeds) is the part the birds love best! Squash, zuchini, spinach, kale, cucumber, celery. Whatever you eat (except of course onion, avocado, garlic, rhubarb, tomato), should be good for them. Raw or cooked.
