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• Steps
• Method 1 of 3: What to feed your budgie with?
• Method 2 of 3: What to give your budgie to drink?
• Method 3 of 3: General Nutrition Tips
• Tips
• Warnings

Every budgerigar owner wants his / her budgerigars to have the most wonderful life.Eating a healthy diet is the path to good health, and great food makes your bird happy.

Steps

Method 1 of 3: What to feed your budgie with?

1. 1 Find out what you can feed your parrot:
   • Seeds. Budgerigars are seed-eating birds with their beaks designed to peel the seeds off before eating them. Accordingly, you should give them high quality seeds. Trill Bird Seeds are considered a good budgerigar product, although there are many different brands on the market that are just as good.
   • Fruits and vegetables. They form a very important part of the poultry diet. Fruits and vegetables can be given in any form, as the parrot loves: sliced, finely chopped, diced or sliced, mashed or whole - whatever! Raw vegetables and fruits are preferred because cooking takes away important nutrients.
   • Corn. Many owners and breeders feed their birds a mixture of soaked grains, which they call soft foods, adding them to their birds' diets. You can give any grain you want: quinoa, brown rice, ground wheat, just about anything. You can even add garlic powder, natural organic honey, fruits or vegetables, and the like, dripping with water.
     • If you don't have enough time to prepare all this for your parrot, you can simply soak a piece of wheat bread in soy milk and give it to him / her.
   • Granulated feed. This is a commercial food suitable for parrots. Follow the manufacturer's instructions.
   • Meat. This may seem like an off-the-beaten-track food for a parrot, and meat isn't necessarily necessary. But meat is a great source of protein, which will add variety to your parrot's menu. Just a few bites of cooked chicken will suffice, or you can use mealworms instead of meat. The choice is yours.
2. 2 Feed fruit, vegetables and soft food every two days, meat once every one / two weeks. This is a general principle. Always supply fresh water 24/7.

Method 2 of 3: What to give your budgie to drink?

1. 1 Give fresh water every day. All creatures need water, and budgerigars are no exception! So make sure you provide fresh, clean water every day in an easily accessible drinking bowl.
2. 2 Change the water every day and wash the drinker thoroughly. Wash the saucer with water only with water and vinegar (no chemicals). This will prevent the growth of bacteria that can cause illness in your beloved parrot.

Method 3 of 3: General Nutrition Tips

1. 1 Use a suitable container to access food. Do not use a container that is so deep that the parrot cannot lower its beak low enough to reach for food.
2. 2 Give cuttlefish bones and mineral stone. This will provide both essential nutrients and additional exercise for the bird.
3. 3 Eliminate feeding problems. If your budgie doesn't eat fruits, vegetables, or any other type of food, cut up the vegetables and put them in an empty feeding bowl. Hang the cup in the cage. Attach a few leaves of greenery or other favorite treats above it. Do this every day until you finally defeat the parrot.
4. 4 Make sure you don't overfeed your parrot. Overfeeding a parrot harms it.

Tips

• There is no need to limit the amount of seeds eaten. The parrot will only eat what it should, but if the seed mixture contains quite a lot of oats or sunflower seeds, try removing as many of these seeds as possible, or switch to a seed mixture with less oats and sunflower seeds.
• Budgerigars have very sensitive systems, so any changes to the seeds should be done gradually. Gradually add a little of the new mixture each day, and take away some of the old mixture until your budgie is only eating the new mixture.
• Remember that the budgie's diet should be balanced over time, not just one meal. In the same way as in humans: we do not try to combine all the elements of the food pyramid in one meal, we eat a little of this and that, and in the interval between the week and the month we eat the prescribed amount of balanced food.

Warnings

• Pellets are simply processed, unnatural mixtures of dried food that are formed into pellets. Keep its use to a minimum to avoid preservatives, colors and flavors mixed inside the granules.