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Do you all feed your birds extras like fruits and veggies?

yea i give mine alot of fruit / veggies but the male loves monkey nuts
so i try to spoil him and have one bowl of money nuts one bowl of fruit / veggies and then one bowl of normal food but they are nesting on 4 birds at the moment so they are eating alot of food i have to put food out in the morning and at the night time also
the food goes down so fast lol but the babies are gettin big fast also.

Of course! Fruits and Vegies are a must for a healthy diet. They can't just live on pellets/seeds. Lately I've been creative and made some muffins and bickies for them that seem to be a hit!

Never feed them avocado, apple seeds, too much salt or anything with caffiene, coffee, chocolate.. These are deadly.

i have heard that chocolate can kill any kind of animal with the high count of suger if i am right ?

Thats probably true! I don't know about other animals but its not a good thing for birds.

Oh, and no alcohol too! But who in their right mind would feed alcohol to an animal?

i dont drink my self so i have none around the hose so the birdies are fine !

wha other things will help the parrents feed there babies because i dont hand feed the babies but i want to help the best i can.

There is a 'sticky' in the diet/housing section on what to feed your IRN.

What are monkey nuts??



Donna

there like a nut in a shell the name over in the uk is moneky nuts but the pet shop said they are safe and he has eaten them for 3 / 4 years with his past owner before me

edit here is an image of them :

For breeder birds that are feeding chicks give them soft foods beans,rice, sweet potatoes, spinach, boiled eggs w/shell. ect. Don't leave these kinda of foods in the cage over 2 hours


Donna

there is only around 3 of these nuts in the pot and he eats them when he see's them in the other pots he has veggies and fruits and in another pot he has seeds so i try give them a mixture of everything and let them chose what they want to eat if you know what i mean like give them a mixture

LOL over in the States we call them peanuts. Had me worried for a while!! I just kept having visions of poor little monkey's running around with NO nuts.


Donna

: sorry about that i didnt know that you called them peanuts over there in the UK we call them monkey nuts well i do i dont know if any one else does :S

They look like peanuts. I just always thought they were peanuts anywhere in the world.

they are still peanuts yeah but the real name for the in the UK is monkey peanuts i dont no why cause they dont look like monkeys and they dont feed them to monkeys lol but hey thats the UK for you haha

yep they are Peanuts in their shells (peanuts grow in the ground i learnt yesterday )

Amazon eats fruit, veggies, spag, honey on toast ( only a little bit of toast)frozon veges, mince, noodles, baked beans, his fav at teh moment is corn.

He eats whatever we eat really