Feeding Your Parrot | Parrot Pellets | Avian Vet Recommended
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- I hope this "Pellets For Parrots" bird care video helps you choose the proper diet for your pet birds. It's important that you know what pellets to feed your parrots. Pellets provide more balanced nutrition than seeds do, a pet bird's diet should be supplemented with plenty of vegetables and a little fruit depending on the species of parrot. Feeding your birds pellets helps to add vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that they require. Pellets I feed my birds are Harrison's pellets, Higgens intune pellets, Caitec Baked Bites, and Zupreem.
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Speaking of pellets I just went to the parrot store and got my birds TOPs pellets I’ve heard very highly of this pellet. My birds eat chop with just vegetables and now they are gonna eat a very healthy pellet. I’m very happy that I can give them the best.
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Hello. I am a new subscriber to your channel from UK.
PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!
I normally breed & hand feed baby Lovebirds & parakeets.
I brought a 3/4 week sun Conure Today.
Please can you help me by sending me the feeding Schedule from 1st week until weening & how many hours apart I need to feed & how many times????
Also I can't Decide which Pellets to get him once he weans. I was fighting myself between Tops & Harrison's High Potency?
Just wanted your opinion as you have alot of knowledge.
PLEASE HELP!!!
Look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for your Time.
I love that grumpy chatter. Thanks for the information as well. 🤗
Hehe😊 Thank you for watching 🙏🏼
Chatty Thomas hardly let you get a word in. Thanks for featuring him. This video is bueno!
Gracious! Thomas loves to be in the center of it all.😘
I loved this 💖💖 i love the idea of grinding up harrisons and sprinkling on wet food! Brilliant 👏👏💖🦜
Thank you!! If works great!!
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I love that you did these video. My first budgie was addicted to seeds. Her avian vet told me to switch her to pallets. I did over 2 years ago. She's so healthy now. My budgies love Harrison's. Plus they eat vegetables and fruits now. But I want to thank you because I never thought about pallets are like crackers sitting out all day. Great point.
You deserve million of subscribers amazing channel
Thank you💚🙏🏼
Thomas is speaking along with you lol
Hi April what a very nice video.i feed my angel zupreen pellets.I just love Thomas is so cute.puffy is cute. All of your birds are so cute I also feed my angel vegetables.casey is so cute.yes I liked this video.love you allways April.
Aww:) Thank you 💚🙏🏼
Thanks for the suggestions on Pellets! My girls love ZuPreem's Pure Fun. I'm having them try the pasta pellets from Zupreem. It's new. Ginger Says TY for showing Thomas and Baby!
Hi!! I am so happy the girls are doing good!! How is Ginger's liver?
@@ParrotPlayhouseChannel She gets Milk Thistle, and we've added meloxicam, Enacard, and Gabapentin. Ginger got an eColi infection so she's getting SMTZ and some powder to put on soft food. Can you do a video on how best to put ointment on bird's feet? My birds HATE their feet being medicated,but they have sores on the bottom of their feet. both birds have vet tape on their perches, and rope swings, but only want to sit on the perches with the vet tape, or on top of their metal cages, especially the door! Lucy takes Gabapentin, and I give her Black Cherry juice for her system. Ginger gets some Apple Cidar Vinegar. Sometimes I switch things up and give Lucy some Apple Cidar Vinegar,and Ginger sometimes gets the Black Cherry Juice to break up the monoteny
Wow! Sounds like you are doing a good job!!
Some birds like pellets and some don't. My African grey won't tolerate them .let the bird decide and you keep an eye on him .xx
Hi April...your shade of lipstick is very flattering on you....I just had to say that 😊
Thank you!! Its now my favorite 😘
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My birds all like different pellets. I wish they would all like one type of pellet to make feeding easier. My Senegal love Tops Pellets, have you ever tried these?
Hello April. I love this video so much! It really has helped me. Ive looked everywhere for good pellet brands in australia but cant find any really. But this has given me a good idea of what to look for. Ive looked through all the ingrediants of the pellets you mentioned and will try and find something with similar ingrediants over here. At the moment im feeding vetefarm pellets. My birdy gets vegetables in the morning and sprouts and pellets for dinner. Fruit on occasion but if i do give fruit, its usually berries because of the antioxidant properties. Seeds and nuts as treats. I have a little green cheeked conure and because i work from home at the moment, im home all day so i dont leave something in his cage all day. Instead i do a few training sessions with him because i love it and he loves it. I do trick training and flight training. Or ill get hi, to forage instead of training. Of course weighing him daily and regualar vet visits! Thanks again! Loved this video!!!
You are doing a fantastic job!! If you send me the brands that are available to you. I would be happy to help you find one. I also like TOPS!
Just looked and TOPS is sold in Australia. :)
@@ParrotPlayhouseChannel Thankyou! ive never even heard of that brand! I will definitely look into it now!😊❤
@@ellarenee431 You just need to probably store it. TOPS has alphafa and alphafa can grow aspergillus. Probably stored you will keep it fresh and aspergillus free!
@@ParrotPlayhouseChannel great information to know! Thankyou! I just looked at their website and they look like they have amazing products! The small pellet is sold out for now but as soon as it comes back in stock i will be purchasing! When you say store it, do you mean in the fridge or freezer? Or in a glass jar? Thankyou again! Im just trying to give my little guy the best diet possible and you are really helping with that!
Heh. I have been following you and your wonderful bird family. I wish others would educate themselves about proper foods . I had to stop watching one of my favorite utube young couple that bought a umbrella cockatoo at age 1, now is 10 yeas old. They knew nothing about birds never mind large parrots. So many aweful things they keep doing. Like they feed him peanut butter several times a day. Whatever their eating , even dairy foods. They rub the bird under his wings and pat him kn his back. I know this is stimulating this bird causing him to get turned on like birds in the wild. They have no childern yet but plan to and can't begin to think of what's comming when they no longer give him their full attdntion. I also follow Birdtricks because they adopt the same healthy and educated way as you do. Yesterday I watched in disbelief as this owner put this huge bird on this strangers shoulder who was freaking out afraid of this large bird maybe attacking her eyes etc. Thankfully this time they were kucky. As a fan I commented saying how dangerous this was and on social media the owner told me if I didn't like what I saw then don't watch. I was heart broken. This bird is sweet but they simply have no idea what they are doing and how one day the bird will get sick living on mushy peanut butter etc. I tryed so hard to nudge them to other sites that they could check out but to no avail. So I had to stop watching them. I know this bird is going to end up with thousands of others waiting to be adopted. Sorry for this long post but had to get it off my chest. Thank you for all your hard work and care that's overwhelming to your birds.
Thank you💚
Can you do an updated version? It will be much appreciated :) :) How about one on Prolapses :( it is so common right now.
Wonderful video and thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. My Parrot "Blue" loves Kaytee Exact Rainbow, which is a blessing. Only thing he is fussy with is with the fresh fruit and veg in the morning. If he doesn't like something in the bowel, I soon hear about it haha. He loves apple. But only gets small portions due to the sugar content.
I thought zupreme has sugar in it. Then theres soy which i heard should be avoided as well. I know they love it cause of the sugar
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Im getting a 2 month old lovebird and I’m wondering which Harrison’s pellets should I be feeding him
Hi! This is the first video I have seen of yours and I love how informative you are! I have a question. I have a green cheek conure who is about, roughly, 1 year old. She is currently on Roudybush, her breeder feeds all his birds this. I feel like she needs something better because I have hear of multiple ingredient changes in roudybush and she is kinda small. Her weight is about 60 - 62g. I've been thinking of changing her over to Zupreem Natural or Harrisons High potency but I'm not sure which one! Any suggestions? Thank you for your time! I hope you are able to see this!
*IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS:* The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seeds mixture" bought in pet stores or malls, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it's not so: indeed the birds health is at serious risk.
The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, budgies, cockatiels, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seeds mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH BY FATTY LIVER DISEASE. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 7 years of age of the more than 14 that they can live.
It's sad that pet birds are fated to die early and painfully in so many cases. You have to warn people to avoid it!
This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can’t imagine that *THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF* that we provide to our birds, in which such *a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the birds usually prefer to eat the fatty seeds* so that their REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to pet birds.
*Also the fruits and specially the breeding paste and its pigments and the sunflower seeds can attack the liver* if they are taken too much or for too long.
It's a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when its unexpected symptoms begin, they are easily confused with other ailments so the owners usually postpone the visit to the vet at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive and misleading disease, even to administer lipotropic and regenerative liver protectors in curative doses, just in case it's that and not a supposed blow). It's a process of slow and asymptomatic progression, but when their visible symptoms begin (acute phase) the disease accelerates.
*SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE:* First, progressive sadness and/or pecking, hard belly (in many cases, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, which seems a "tumor", to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up his feathers or bends more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks or a few days, heavy breathing with open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" but it are twinges of pain of diseased liver), abundant greenish poop (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange purplish color of skin and beak, an excessive appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what the bird seems to ameliorate), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a heart infarct).
For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) vet action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seeds mixture (even if you give it fresh fruits, vegetables and let it exercise, for example by letting it out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and neither you nor your bird know. *Without liver protectors, it's almost certain that your bird will die early and in many cases you won’t be able to determine its real cause.*
Hepatic lipidosis it's not only deadly by itself when the visible symptoms begin (sometimes even it does not warn at all until few moments before the death). Even before the acute phase it predisposes the bird to suffer infections, as it weakens the immune system. Obese pet birds have an higher risk of many other diseases, like arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Obesity in birds it's not so apparent but it's more dangerous than in other animals like mammals.
So in addition to giving to the birds lipotropic and detox / regenerating hepatic protectors preventively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds.
*PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT:* The time to act is NOW that your bird doesn’t have yet the visible symptoms. It's necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE LIVER DEGENERATION. Fortunately it's easy to do it: *It's very advisable to substitute progressively (within some weeks, as per the instructions of the manufacturer) the mixture of loose seeds for some pellets compound food of seeds, fruits and vegetables (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from filtering and eating mostly the fatty seeds (but without insisting if the bird does not get accustomed to eating pellets because he could die for starvation within a few days).*
*And, whatever the diet, it's CRUCIAL to add to the drinking water or to the food a LIPOTROPIC LIVER PROTECTOR that includes carnitine and / or choline, betaine, methionine, etc., (and it's very convenient to add a DETOX / REGENERATING LIVER PROTECTOR with thistle milk, boldo, artichoke extract).*
Liver protectors are not medicine but cheap food supplements manufactured by pet bird vet laboratories that remove the fat from the liver, clean it and favor its recovery. It's essential to add them to the pet birds diet to conserve their liver. It's something that breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know.
It are appearing in the market compound feed for pet birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. *But the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fatty seeds... And their birds continue dying for hepatic lipidosis in a large number of cases (likely, in most cases).* Now we know that, as fatty liver disease develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more so as the bird ages.
Webs on FLD:
www.beautyofbirds.com/liverdisease.html
Liver disease is a slow, on-going progressive disease where the liver tissue is replaced with fat. When the liver disease has progressed, the bird may suddenly appear ill.
www.lovinghands.com/forms/Hepatic%20Lipidosis%20-%20Fatty%20Liver%20Disease.pdf One of the sadder diseases many avian vets see is that of hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver disease. It's sad in a number of ways since often the birds are very ill, life-threateningly so, or possibly having died suddenly. Often the owners have been unaware of the dangers of feeding their beloved pet the seeds, peanuts, or other fatty foods the bird obviously loves to eat. These are truly cases of "loving your bird to death". Any bird can fall victim to fatty liver disease.
www.researchgate.net/publication/46105643_Treating_liver_disease_in_the_avian_patient Dietary deficiencies of lipotrophic factors such as choline, biotin, and methionine may decrease the transport of lipids from the liver.
www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n111110B/111004B.pdf The clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could imagine and in many cases they are not appreciated, progress in a silent way and when they are evident, vet action may arrive late.
Most any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it was a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. We must closely investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that don’t harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from vets, breeders, etc. and procure the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird doesn’t improve, it's necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. It's necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient vet experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it's convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it’s better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered.
A limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated ASAP. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest fat possible (only birdseed, or with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia, fresh fruits and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately... although nothing could foresee a fatal outcome. There are also food supplements protectors of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflets do not cause damage, it will surely save the life of your bird (if it's not too late), and will keep them with a basic wellness.
What do you think of Roudybush pellets? I don't hear much about them either. Curious to know your thoughts. Thanks!
I know many people who feed Roudybush to their parrots and their birds test comeback good! I love Harrison's but it's not for every birdie.
What do you think of Harrison's bird bread? I bake it for my birds.
Hey guys!
Is nutribird pellets good to trust!! Where i live i just find nutribird!
The nutribird p15 and g14 pellets are quite good
Every vet will recover a different brand
Use sprouted seeds ( via China Prarie). Add bean sprouts etc. Was gonna say more but ....Main thing is how much of a good diet is too much? Have to watch my less active , disabled as she can get chubby........weighing IS important. Maybe a vlog on good digital scales(?) Lol. Sorry. Like informative vlogs.
I did mention peeps to weigh their birds in this video. I do have a weighing your bird video. Bloodwork and asking your avian vet what a good baseline weight for your bird is super important. Every birdie is an individual. Just might make another new weighing video. Thank you❤
HI April...I'm glad you made this video....birdtricks..com made a video of all pellets saying they are bad for your parrots...they really trashed Zupreme and Harrison's...they also say that things keep evolving and that people need to stop listening to everyone...I bet they don't get blood work done on their parrots...Kudos to you for another great video. ..
Blood work doesn't lie.
Just looked at Bird Tricks pellet ingredients. I was curious to see what was inside. Seems Bird Tricks pellets ingredients are almost the same or exact to TOPS. The only difference I could see was TOPS has each ingredient labeled organic and Bird Tricks called their ingredients natural.
Glad you checked it out...and I agree about blood work...Plus you have all rescues and they don't...They train birds and now act like they are nutritionist....lol
Now I’m not particularly a fan of Birds tricks I don’t really get my info from them mostly because they’re more of a company and you need to pay or hire them.. and I prefer other avian vet blogs and youtubers..
BUT .. I think you’re bad mouthing others just to suck up and it’s ugly.. This is birds trick job and source of income so of course they’re entitled to benefit of, it’s not like they’re a CZcamsr promoting whatever to get paid .. and as for the pellets it’s no secrets BT are using a rebranded TOPs pellets and obviously they chose it cause it’s the best just like they use lots of planet pleasure toys in their own brand.
Also BT does lots of rescue and they have made a series to show some where they teach how to treat and help a rescue bird to recover .. they also do lots of donations and spreading awareness about rescued birds institutions there’s this one in particular that they covered in their channel..
and as for the pellets
after making a very long researches on pellets I come to conclude it’s only good as a treat .. don’t take my words for it check the ingredients for yourself..
I wasted my time and money over buying brands just cause others who seemed more knowledgeable said so but keep in mind I live in the opposite part of the world everything is more expensive and shipping is no joke .. I check the ingredients and what do you know .. corn and soybean as main ingredients .. this goes for Harrison I was really upset cause I believed a youtuber over my own eyes and brain and I gave it to my babies for a while .. now I know better ..
Why are her parrots are healthy regardless the pellets!! It’s cause she’s feeding them healthy diet and maybe give them a good flying workout that these pellets aren’t harming them .. not everyone able to do so she’s doing more than most birds owner so she’s entitled of screwing up a little but with avians vets high bills it’s better for the rest just to be carful and feed them babies natural vegs fruits sprouts and little seed and that’s all good with an annual vet visit .
And one more thing .. in what world colored food which is not good for human is ok for birds.. also why do they need sugar or salt in their food .. check the ingredients ppl .. it’s not a joke .. Id say only TOPs is ok but don’t go leave natural for artificial unless in real need like her being away for long time