Thanks Wolf and Pajarita

[ParrotsForLife]

Once a week is too often. My birds get a very small portion of grated hardboiled egg maybe twice a year and ONLY during breeding season. Parrots never eat eggs in the wild. Never.

Guess I should reduce it then what about once a month.

My dear, if she has been getting eggs frequently, I suggest you stop them altogether. Parrots do not need to eat eggs. It does not only NOT benefit them, it's actually harmful to them.

People say a lot of things about bird husbandry on the internet but, personally, I pay them no mind unless I find, upon thorough research from reputable scientific sources, that it matches nature's way of doing things. Eggs are great nutrition for humans and all omnivores and carnivores but parrots are herbivores and never, ever eat eggs in the wild. Animal protein is not the same as vegetable protein. It takes a completely different set of enzymes to digest it and it requires a digestive mechanism to get rid of the bad cholesterol it always has (except for insect protein which has no bad cholesterol). Eggs are loaded with bad cholesterol.

When I had the rescue, I took in a 32 year old female redlored amazon parrot that had creamy white spots in both her eyes. I asked the ex-owner if she knew what they were and she said she had never even noticed them (?) and, as I had never had any other bird with anything similar, I asked the vet when I took her in for her exam and do you know what they were? Blobs of cholesterol! Why? Because she had been fed animal protein for years and the body having no place to send the cholesterol to, ended up creating deposits of it all over the place. Needless to say, her blood cholesterol was super high and her liver and kidneys were in VERY bad shape. She died about a year after despite all my efforts. Thankfully, she died of a heart attack in her sleep and I know because she still had her toes locked around the perch when I found her in the morning.

Don't believe anything you read on the internet and don't even try to use your 'common sense' when it comes to what might be good or bad for birds because we are simply not mentally trained to 'understand' other animals other than mammals. Always go to nature, she knows better than we do.

Thanks for the information guess people shouldnt believe everything on the internet.

[ParrotsForLife]

Once a week is too often. My birds get a very small portion of grated hardboiled egg maybe twice a year and ONLY during breeding season. Parrots never eat eggs in the wild. Never.

Guess I should reduce it then what about once a month.

My dear, if she has been getting eggs frequently, I suggest you stop them altogether. Parrots do not need to eat eggs. It does not only NOT benefit them, it's actually harmful to them.

People say a lot of things about bird husbandry on the internet but, personally, I pay them no mind unless I find, upon thorough research from reputable scientific sources, that it matches nature's way of doing things. Eggs are great nutrition for humans and all omnivores and carnivores but parrots are herbivores and never, ever eat eggs in the wild. Animal protein is not the same as vegetable protein. It takes a completely different set of enzymes to digest it and it requires a digestive mechanism to get rid of the bad cholesterol it always has (except for insect protein which has no bad cholesterol). Eggs are loaded with bad cholesterol.

When I had the rescue, I took in a 32 year old female redlored amazon parrot that had creamy white spots in both her eyes. I asked the ex-owner if she knew what they were and she said she had never even noticed them (?) and, as I had never had any other bird with anything similar, I asked the vet when I took her in for her exam and do you know what they were? Blobs of cholesterol! Why? Because she had been fed animal protein for years and the body having no place to send the cholesterol to, ended up creating deposits of it all over the place. Needless to say, her blood cholesterol was super high and her liver and kidneys were in VERY bad shape. She died about a year after despite all my efforts. Thankfully, she died of a heart attack in her sleep and I know because she still had her toes locked around the perch when I found her in the morning.

Don't believe anything you read on the internet and don't even try to use your 'common sense' when it comes to what might be good or bad for birds because we are simply not mentally trained to 'understand' other animals other than mammals. Always go to nature, she knows better than we do.

Sorry to hear about the poor bird.Your right people shouldnt believe everything on the internet.