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1. Bangs on January 12th, 2010 at 1:06 pm

   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.

   google for pet bird recipes

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