What Can Budgies Eat?

[Karla]

Can Miko eat cooked french fries?

[Enna]

i wouldn't let him eat fries. Try veggies like carrots. My lilly can't get enough of them even if its just shedding them. Also apples and stuff. ill get a bigger list and post it .

[Enna]

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
Dried date1
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

This is from joey but it was posted on a differnt bird chat ok.

[FeatherFan]

Referring to this list - does anyone know if its ok to feed them dried chopped herbs that can be used for seasoning food?

[Enna]

i have no clue about that one. i know dried banana and papiya can be. I wouldn't try though unless you dried it yourself cause they could of added stuff to it.

[Karla]

Thanks for the list.

[Dave]

As previously stated, I wouldn't feed any bird french fries really. They're bad enough for us, imagine how bad they might be for a bird. :P

[Karla]

Haha. He probably wouldn't have eaten them anyway. :)

[BUUZBEE]

Referring to this list - does anyone know if its ok to feed them dried chopped herbs that can be used for seasoning food?


i would say no, they have been dried and really have no nutritional value to them

[Karla]

My budgie isn't afraid of apple of carrot, but he wont bite it when i put it next to his beak. He just looks at it:P Should I put it in his food dish?

[BUUZBEE]

i would, chop it up into small squares and put it with his apple

[JPKP]

Well chocolate and avacados are BIG no no's.

Karla, make it into a toy, hang it, maybe add some beads. But you would have to take it out everyday because you wouldn't want to give bad fruit to your budgies would you? :D

[larry]

We have an asparagus fern plant at home, my birds love it. I occasionally give it to them as a special treat.

[redgirl]

I always give mine Spinach and apple

[pal0m1n0]

I have a list from a vet and it says that apricots, garlic, onions and peaches are especially dangerous and can be fatal. But on the other hand it says that only the leaves, seeds, stem and skin of avocado is fatal to birds. These food lists are very confusing. Maybe we should make our own list of foods that we know are safe because we have fed them to our birds with no ill effects. Also at least three different people must have used the food before it is put on the list.

[BUUZBEE]

i know of the garlic & onions being a nono, but not the peaches & apricots.
i wouldnt take a chance with the avacado