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I did read your post, I'm sorry that it seemed like I implied your birds ate only seeds, that was not the case. I meant that a bird can look outwardly healthy on an all seed diet for quite some time, and so an outwardly "healthy looking" appearance is not necessarily accurate. I did read that yours eat a varied diet, and I am glad that they appear to be doing well.Pellets have been around for 11 yrs and I got my information from 3 different Drs. ...they wouldn't say for sure because necropsies normally cant be 100% for sure but they implied it in our conversations ...so yes I believe she died of only consuming pellets for all her life ...My birds are doing great their blood work tells me so ...their plumage ...their activity ...their stool...how they eat ...their whole way of life ....how do you tell if your bird is doing well ...and my birds don't eat an all seed diet ...I encourage you to read my post before you make statements....I consider a whole food life style a better option to pellets and that's what I feed my birds and so does a whole population of people you can find some of them here Log into Facebook | Facebook and they seem to maintain it quite well
I, like you, assume that my birds are doing well using the factors you describe. What I am trying to say is that the choices we're making now, no matter how good they may seem to us, may have negative ramifications down the road. Am I saying that you should ditch your diet plan? Absolutely not. What I am saying is that looking at the science, the "why" of what we're doing is so important. We assume that because we're offering a variety of foods we perceive as healthy that our birds will also be healthy. This may or may not be the case, and we may not know it until our birds (hopefully) grow old.
I did specify a "modern" pelleted diet. Pellets have come a long way in 11 years, new research has been done and formulas have changed. I am very curious what a vet would see on a necropsy that would point them to pellets as the culprit. I'm not trying to be argumentative, but trying to understand.