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![]() There is a wide variety of fresh food, seeds and grains you can offer to your budgies - even many native plants are edible. In this category of Birds Online I present some healthy supplements, inform you on seeds, grains and water to keep your budgies and other pet birds fit and healthy.
Another important aspect is that fresh food trains the bird's senses: Smell and consistency differ a lot if you compare, for example, an eggplant with a banana. With their fleshy tongue budgies and many other parrots carefully sample their food; this trains their mental abilities as well.
Many pet birds are kept in their cages most of the time. This causes a lack of exercise - another reason for overweight. In combination with fatty food this could be a great danger for the health of a parrot. Fat birds tend to become ill. Some suffer from excoriated soles of their feet. Others develop so-called adipose tumours on their breast or their belly. Those fatty tumours are usually benign, but tend to grow in an uncontrollable way and may kill the bird when getting too big.
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