Can budgies eat cockatiel pellets?

[edenic]

My budgie Sky has been on Harrison’s lifetime mash for awhile now and she seems to like it (or at least tolerate it) but lately she has taken to sneaking into our cockatiel’s cage and eating his pellets as well. Our cockatiel is currently on HARI’s Tropimix, we were wondering if it would be alright to give her a little bit of these pellets in her mash since she seems to like them so much. We’re not sure about how different their dietary needs are, I did read that cockatiels can handle higher fat content than budgies due to being physically bigger, so budgies shouldn’t be fed something like a ton of sunflower seeds for example. Could anyone advise?

 

[taxidermynerd]

As far as I know, the only difference in most pellets is size, they use the same formula. It should be fine, but I'll tag @Mizzely because she knows more than I do lol.

 

[Mizzely]

Most pellets have the same formula regardless of the size For Hari, their Tropican formula is the same for parakeets through macaw

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[Olliebirb]

They would probably be too big to eat...

 

[Lady Jane]

Yes too big to swallow safely. Harrisons makes extra small pellets.

 

[grafton]

Harrisons is 100% organic. Is Tropimix? Also, doesn't tropimix have seeds in it? If so, I'd be concerned that your budgie would favor the seeds over the healthier and better-rounded Harrisons pellets.

 

[edenic]

@Olliebirb @Lady Jane I was going to crush up the pellets before giving them to Sky so she would have an easier time eating them, so I’m not too worried about that.

@grafton I’m not sure about it being 100% organic, and there are seeds in the Tropimix but from what I’ve seen, not very many.

Interestingly, did recently try to switch our cockatiel to the same mash that Sky is on at the recommendation of our vet and Sky still went for our cockatiel’s food bowl and ate from it several times despite it being filled with the same food she usually eats. Could it be that she just wants to eat from his food bowl and doesn’t care what’s inside of it?

 

[Lori D Pert]

Could it be that she just wants to eat from his food bowl and doesn’t care what’s inside of it?

It's very possible. Budgies (especially little hens) can be real bullies. They like to establish dominance even with bigger birds like cockatiels. I had a little hen years ago who did the same thing to our cockatiel...lol.

 

[Olliebirb]

Could it be that she just wants to eat from his food bowl and doesn’t care what’s inside of it?

Yep that could be why. My budgie Winston only eats the pellet mix if they are in Oliver's cage but when I put them in his cage, he didn't eat for the whole day

 

[Dorcas George]

Yep that could be why. My budgie Winston only eats the pellet mix if they are in Oliver's cage but when I put them in his cage, he didn't eat for the whole day

Stinker! It figures, huh?