The Budgie Diet, just in case you need it

[Zooey]

I remember when I first researched budgie diets and how much of each food group there should be. It was a pain in the neck. So then I found this site, and I was saved. I made a few alterations. In case you need it for other birds, here it is. Ignore the meat and dairy parts.
http://www.all-pet-birds.com/parakeet-food.html
I made a more accurate version for budgies, and it's the best for my budgies. I don't know about yours, but all I know is that this is the best for mine.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t7e7JCosRVYqG0SKAIlFHCojq_2hBKvGfdnrS0Hp_tc/edit

[Shelby]

It's really helpful that they put a short list of the most common foods that are poisonous.

[allirho]

Thank goodness for this post!
I've been searching online high and low for the correct amounts of each food group to feed my new budgie and all I could find was info telling me what to feed my bird, not how much of each food to feed it.
Thanks!

[Michael]

I wouldn't trust a diet that lumps budgies, parrotlets, lovebirds, and other parakeets (like gcc etc) in the same diet. These little parrots come from across 4 different continents with vastly different ecosystems! Budgies and Cockatiels comes from arid Australian desert environments consuming low nutrition diets while some of the parakeets come from lush tropical rain forests of South America.

5% meat/dairy sounds ridiculous as well. With a properly balanced vegetarian diet, cuttlebone, and perhaps some eggs in the diet, I don't think they ever need meat/dairy. It can be offered on rare occasion but they really don't need the fat, cholesterol, etc. The value of nutrition they can get elsewhere. I don't give meet at all. Cheese maybe once a few months (and only really well aged cheese). Eggs about once a month.

I don't think an ideal budgie diet is determined and worse yet they are terrible picky so getting them to actually consumer variety is even more difficult.

[Zooey]

I wouldn't trust a diet that lumps budgies, parrotlets, lovebirds, and other parakeets (like gcc etc) in the same diet. These little parrots come from across 4 different continents with vastly different ecosystems! Budgies and Cockatiels comes from arid Australian desert environments consuming low nutrition diets while some of the parakeets come from lush tropical rain forests of South America.

5% meat/dairy sounds ridiculous as well. With a properly balanced vegetarian diet, cuttlebone, and perhaps some eggs in the diet, I don't think they ever need meat/dairy. It can be offered on rare occasion but they really don't need the fat, cholesterol, etc. The value of nutrition they can get elsewhere. I don't give meet at all. Cheese maybe once a few months (and only really well aged cheese). Eggs about once a month.

I don't think an ideal budgie diet is determined and worse yet they are terrible picky so getting them to actually consumer variety is even more difficult.

Yes, I agree that the diets are supposed to be different, but as you can see I meant this for budgies. This diet has worked best for my budgies. I'll make a note about that.
I made a document with alterations to that diet for budgies, and I think I'm going to share that instead.

[GlassOnion]

Budgies need a lot more than 1% of seed in their overall diet. Being grass parakeets, they eat a lot of seed and sprouted seeds as well as grass in the wild.

[Zooey]

I posted my altered, more accurate version just for budgies.