Color of Food???

[ginilyn]

Some of you feed the colored pellets ..etc. have you ever noticed if the fids like one color over another? My pellets are a dirty army brown..and they like them fine, just am curious..I could always soak some in food coloring to add enhancement! lol
I do have a purple sweatshirt that Lucky won't step on..she will get on my hand when I wear it, but not onto my arm! It is the same brand as most of my sweatshirts, just a purple color...she seems to not trust it or something..she doesn't even put her beak on the sleeve...has to be the color!

[Jean]

Personally, I do not like the colored ones. For some reason most birds pick and choose colors. They may like all purple and yellow while not the blue and red or green or vice a versa. I feed Elvie Harrisons, Pretty Bird, and Lafeber pellets. He likes all of them so I switch off. It is also much easier to watch your birds for healthy looking poop sample if you feed the regular pellets with no color additives. Personally My avian vet also believes they are healthier. I also give Elvie 7 to 8 drops of 100% pure red palm oil each day in his diet for overall health and feather well being. The normal scale is about 1 drop per 100 gram weight per bird.

His largest food intake is veges like sweet potatoes and yellow squash, broccol, brussel sprouts, carrots, eggs, very often. it is important to feed foods hgh in vitamin A and calcum their diet. He also gets brown rice, both-brown and green beans, the colored vege pasta, some oatmeal and cheddar cheese in linited quantities. When I feed fruit I never give fruit like cherries, apricots, peaches, until I have pitted them first, my vet says pitts are not safe for birds to eat. I feed avian cakes, nutriberries, and birdie popcorn as snacks too. By the time you read this, you must be thinking all this for one cockatoo. "whew" what can I say, other then he eats healthy.

I will not buy any produce that has been imported from Chilli, since some pet parrots were given grapes from Chilli and they killed their flock. They washed the grapes well before feeding them. Their grapes were lab tested to find the meat of the grape was tainted with pestisides. :bawling:

[Shirley]

We feed Roudybush, all natural, but Harrisons is even better.

I avoid all additives and artificial colors as much as possible. Skyler is no longer on pellets at all, except in very small amounts now and then. He is completely over his feather episode of Oct-March. :clap: He didn't go back on the pellets until April, and then in small amts.

[vmtwriter]

Bailey doesn't like white/yellow foods. I've tried pears, banana, dried pineapple, and things like that. :p

But, the little stinker does like yogurt. I give him his own taste from his own spoon. This morning we had pineapple yogurt. He picked out the pineapple and threw them away. :funny: It was the funniest thing to watch.

Now, I've tried all kinds of fresh foods and he won't have anything to do with them. Carrots, grapes, broccoli, cauliflower, tomato, nothing. He's not interested. :rolleyes:

We did learn that his favorite seed is sunflower. So, we've limited his intake of them, or else that'd be all he ate. We use the seeds as rewards and special treats.

His food is from Exact. The Rainbow mix for parrots/conures. He does tend to favor the red over the other colors. He's not too crazy about the yellow pieces, unless they're the bigger ones. He takes them from my hand and will eat that way.