Healthy Fresh Food

[Joey]

Healthy fresh food

Budgies are little gourmets who love a wide variety concerning their food. But regrettably, many bird owners don't know what their budgies are allowed to eat. Due to this I created this brief list of fresh food stuff that is edible for any kind of pet bird. You can find more information on this complex topic in the nutrition chapter of Birds Online.

Healthy sorts of vegetables:
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Carrot
Celery stalks
Chard
Chicory
Chinese Cabbage
Corn (milky & soft)
Cucumber
Curly kale
Egg plant
Endive
Fennel
Jerusalem
artichoke
Kohlrabi
Lamb's lettuce
Paprika
Potato (cooked)
Radish Red Beet (fresh)
Salad
Spinach
Tomato
Zucchini

Healthy sorts of fruit:
Apple
Apricot
Asian pear
Banana
Blackberry
Blackcurrant
Black Elder
Blood orange
Blueberry
Canteloupe melon
Cape gooseberry
Carambola
Cherimoya
Cherry Clementine
Cranberry
Custard apple
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Fig (fresh)
Gooseberry
Grape
Grenadine
Guava
Honeydew melon
Huckleberry
Japanese Persimmon
Kiwifruit
Loquat
Lychee (Litchi)
Mandarin
Mango
Melon
Nectarine
Opuntia fruit
Orange
Papaya
Peach
Pear
Persimmon,Japanese
Pineapple
Plum
Quince
Rambutan
Raspberry
Redcurrant
Strawberry
Tangerine
Tamarillo
(Tree tomato)
Yellow Plum

Tasty herbs for budgies:
Basil
Bear's garlic
Borage
Burnet
Carrot
(green parts) Chervil
Chives
Coriander (green parts)
Cress
Dill
Fennel(green parts)
Lovage
Marjoran
Mint
Oregano
Parsley
Purslane
Roquette
Rosemary
Sage
Savory
Tarragon
Thyme

[Dinky]

Wow!! That's quite a list. Thank you.

[Tracie H]

I'm gonna have to print this list for future reference. Thanks for sharing it.

[Joey]

Thanks it helped me too!:D

[Amy]

Where did you get it? It sounds great! Very informative!

[Joey]

I got it from a book I rented from the Liabray...

[Amy]

Cool! What was the book called? Is it good?

[BUUZBEE]

would the brussel spouts be ok? i would have guessed they are high in whatever vitamin is in regular old cabbage??? and that i know your not suposed to feed them. I have no idea, but they are a very close relative of each other in the veggie world, lol

[Joey]

Im not sure there was just that list in the book I think the bok was called "Your First Parakeet" it was a very small book only about 120 pages...

[BUUZBEE]

i cant even remember what the vitamin/mineral that is in cabbage that is so high. i will have to find out and then see if the brussels are high in it too

[Joey]

Im sorry maybe this isnt such a good list....:(

[BUUZBEE]

no its a VERY good list, im just wondering about that one veggie

[Joey]

hnm..ill look for it