carrots for parrots

[LJ4RockPebbler]

Our parrot enjoys eating baby carrots fresh or frozen. Is it too much for him to have this every day?

[Wolf]

I have seen nothing anywhere that I have looked to indicate any problem with this parrot eating carrots on a daily basis, so I would say let him have his carrots.

[Pajarita]

Yes, he can have carrots everyday but it cannot be the one and only produce he eats, he needs a large variety for a good, healthy diet because no veggie or fruit has EVERYTHING. And you won't get a good diet if you feed a bird what he likes every single day because then it would be the only thing he eats. I learned this early on - I used to give my parrots a variety of veggies and fruits thinking that it was nice to give them a choice but I realized that they were picking what they liked and leaving all the rest so I switched methods and now give them one fruit, one veggie and one leafy green a day, a different one of each every day of the week, some they get every week, some every ten day, some even more seldom (the expensive stuff, mostly ). This way, they end up consuming a large range of nutrients.

[LJ4RockPebbler]

No, he has his mix of veggies everyday but he seems to love standing over a frozen baby carrot for a long period of time and just snacking on it. I thought I saw something online that made me believe that too much carrots might not be a good thing. Anyway, thanks again.

[Wolf]

I think that the main concern would be that by just eating the carrots that your bird is not eating enough of the other vegetables.

[Harpmaker]

I know you said fresh or frozen, but could your bird just like cold things? Mine likes to snack on ice cubes. She pulls the ice cube from her water dish and chips pieces off. She looks so funny holding a chunk of ice bigger than her head.

[Derbyan_Frank]

I'd love it if my parrot ate his baby carrots. He seems much more interested in chewing on them and spitting out the mush than eating them, unfortunately. I had an idea to take half a peanut and grinding it into powder with a mortar & pestle and sprinkling the powder over an entire bag of baby carrots to maybe season them but I don't know how well that'd work.

[Wolf]

I have no idea as to how well this would work as my birds seem to like their carrots.

[Pajarita]

Try cooked and diced carrots, all my parrots eat them that way from the budgies to the cockatoo. For raw carrots, you need to figure out which way he likes them. My budgies only eat them if I put a whole skinny one tucked between the bars (kind of like a carrot perch) and an African gray only if they are coarsely grated (not fine and not medium, only coarse -picky lady!) so try different presentations and locations and, when you are all out of ideas, start again with the first one and keep on trying for the next five years (that's the longest a bird took to try a particular fruit or veggie under my care).

PS Carrots need to be organic and, if you can, get the purple or red ones.

[mikella]

I'd love it if my parrot ate his baby carrots. He seems much more interested in chewing on them and spitting out the mush than eating them, unfortunately. I had an idea to take half a peanut and grinding it into powder with a mortar & pestle and sprinkling the powder over an entire bag of baby carrots to maybe season them but I don't know how well that'd work.

My green cheek conure chews the liquid out of everything and spits the mush - same with carrots. Cooked carrots, he will eat more fully however. Have you tried that? I was wondering if this behaviour was a green cheek conure thing and was going to ask about it.