For some of us, getting our birds to eat healthy is easy and we never have to find ways to get them to choose broccoli over sunflower seeds. But for those parrots that are more based in reality, we’ve had to find ways to get them to eat the foods we know will benefit them the most. One method that many parrot owners have found useful is creating and serving chop to their birds. In this post, we’ll explore what chop is, how to choose the right ingredients, how to store it, and why it can be so good for our birds.
The single most important aspect of your parrot’s long term health is their nutrition. The food that they consume is what makes up all the parts of their body and a high quality diet is an integral part of maintaining a parrot’s health for the long term.
As parrot owners we are always trying to give our birds the best care possible and one of the most important parts of that care is nutrition. The nutrition our birds receive play the single largest role in the long-term mental, physical and emotional health of our birds. However, in our journeys to try and provide our parrots with high quality nutrition, we often find that our parrots are not willing to eat anything other than the seed mix their breeder originally provided them as juveniles. Greens, vegetables, pellets—the parrots refuse to even touch it and often would rather go hungry rather than eat it. Why is that? And what can we do to help get our birds on the right diet?
