I am all for the FRESH diet(my birds get 50% of their daily diet as fresh and cooked and mash). However, even with my veggie loving birds, they do get picky time-to-time and will totally ignore a certain food they have eaten and love in the past.It would be great to feed all fresh diet, I would stress out worrying about them not eating the right stuff.
Thats a bird for ya, they pick and choose what they like. So I do feed pellets(20% of their diet), in small amounts, and the seed/nuts they get also in small amounts that matches the pellet intake, both at 20%. I want to make sure that if they do decide (which they do at times) they dont like something "out of no where", that their diet is still very complete so I add pellets.
I personally think even a bird on an all fresh diet, can get sick and become vitamin deficient and other health problems. Buying an all organic and raising your own organic food is not only expensive but time consuming too! Not many people can feed an all organic fresh veggie/sprout/fruit diet (with organic nuts and seed). And non-organic produce can be very low in nutrition because of how its raised and grown.
My birds get mainly organic, but I'll be honest, a lot of stuff isnt organic. And because non organic foods arent high quality and can have so much nutrients taken out of them, I feel its best for my birds (who can also one day decide they dont like a certain produce I offer) to feed atleast some pellets, so I feel they are getting some of the nutrients they may have missing out of their diet.
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