What Type of House Plants Are Good For a Cockatiel to Nibble?
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My cockatiel was chewing on the leaves to my baby King Palm tree until I moved it outside. I hear leaves give them fiber and other nutrients so what other plants would work?
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cockatiel diet must be supplemented with fresh fruit and vegetables on a daily basis. An all seed diet often results in an unhealthy or overweight cockatiel.
Try the following:
FRUIT:
apple, grape, guava, kiwi fruit, mango, melon, nectarine, orange, peach, pear, pomegranate, plum, strawberry, tangerine, watermelon
VEGETABLES:
bok choy, broccoli, carrot (chopped or grated), celery, chard, lettuce (but small amounts of lettuce and not too often as not a lot of goodness), peas, silverbeet, spinach, sweetcorn, watercress, zucchini.
Favorites with cockatiels tend to be apple, egg, pasta, peas, rice, silverbeet, spinach, sweetcorn.
Note that the fruit and vegetables should be provided:
thoroughly washed
in small pieces
at room temperature
unpeeled
free of cores, stones, pits or pips
raw (some cockatiels prefer certain vegetables cooked (steamed) like peas and sweetcorn – use your judgment here)
fresh (obviously this will be the most nutritious for your cockatiel but you can use frozen or canned)
Be aware that your cockatiel’s droppings may be runnier than usual with an intake of fruit and vegetables.
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