Budgie Owners, what do you feed your bird?

[tishihara1994]

I was just wondering what kind of food you feed your budgie. I just feed a Mixed seed with dry fruit thing. Seems like my PorQue is only eating the millet thats inside it though....

[Rue]

Yes, if she's only eating millet...don't give her any. Ours only get millet sprays as a treat once a week or so.

Ours eat pellets, some budgie seed (but they eat all of it, not just the millet). Then they get fresh fruits, veggies and appropriate table foods.

[Chicklet]

My budgies eat mainly pellets with a small amount of seed. Millet is only a treat once in a while. They also get fresh veggies.

[Kim S]

I only have aviary budgies. But they get a standard seed mix every day. Once a week eggfood (I'm not sure if thats a product where you live, but its a combination of eggyoke, small mashed buggs and such things that you need to make wet before feeding. Its high protein and prefect for breeding pairs or fattening up before winter). Every other day cuttings of whatever vegetables or fruit we are having. And once a week one string of millet per bird.

[Cozzy]

pellets and egg food.

[Red Moppet]

I do love the name PorQue!

I feed my bird Harrison's pellets, a seed mixture (I was told it should be 3x per week but I end up giving him some a little more often than that), daily greens & vegs (parsley, broccoli, etc) and he gets millet when we do training or sometimes as a foraging treat in his cage.

[TheNzJessie]

seed mixture with grains, with fresh fruit and veg daily, and a string of millet every sunday afternoon or during training. i class millet as catnip for birds

[qtbirds]

My two get buckwheat sprouts and Zupreem Natural pellets. They love the sprouts almost more than the pellets. I give them millet as treats daily when we interact. Once in a while I give them plain cooked oatmeal or raw oat groats.

They just started getting buckwheat sprouts this week. Since they were a big hit I'm going to try sprouting sunflower, lentil, popcorn, mung bean, millet, alfalfa, and brown rice. I plan on having them on 50% sprouts and 50% pellets.

I've never really gotten them to eat veggies and fruits. They may have had some, but they didn't really like them.

[jjecsion]

Vegetables are a great addition to your birds diet. A yellow and dark green leafy vegetables are usually excellent choices. CarrotsSweet, potatoes, sugar beets, the Greens have the best food and parrot. Many birds love fruit, and so limit the outcome exaggerating relatively small proportion of overall diet.

[lotus15]

I'm definitely in the minority, but Charles diet consists of fresh sprouts, fresh veggies, bird bread, cooked mashes, and pellets. No single thing would represent more than maybe 30 or 35% of his diet... I think variation is key! Once in a while he gets a little bit of dry seed or millet spray as a treat... but usually all seed is sprouted or soaked.