BIRDS & BIRDKEEPING: FOCUS ON FEED Companion Parrots
HAVING passed a quarter of a century when feeding hookbills supplanted nutrition for kids, am I ready to pass on what I have learned? With pleasure! But if you are searching for a solid body of interconvertible facts, I fear you'll be disappointed. I have no scientifically proven solutions. What I have concluded is that the more I find out, the less I know.
What experts disagree on – and in this context, I will call myself one (a bit cheeky) – is pellets. Are they essential and what proportion of the diet should they comprise?
When I started keeping parrots at the end of the last century, there wasn'tcoffee for an African grey. A memory that comes back is of a tray bake to share with my pet parrots: torn-up chips, herbs and vegetables.
