What do parakeets eat?

Parakeets (more accurately known as parakeets) are like most other birds, they enjoy a varied diet rather than just the same old seed every day. So what do you feed your little feathered friends with? Budgies are vegetarians, so they enjoy a balanced diet of seeds, vegetables, and fruits.

So what kind of fruits do we feed our parakeets? Budgies are known to love a wide range of fruits including tangerines, apples, and pears, if you want to be really adventurous you can try some tropical fruits too! Fruits are an important part of a budgie’s diet, so be sure to accommodate your little budgie’s dietary needs and feed him an apple slice in his cage every now and then.

Different fruits in different places can add a bit of excitement to your budget life, as well as valuable nutrients! Use mealtime as another time to bond with your budgie, share an apple, hand-feed tangerines, or even prepare a moist lettuce leaf for your budgie to eat and bathe.

You can also mix your budget diet with a variety of green vegetables. Your parakeet will enjoy things like broccoli and / or cauliflower greens, Bok-Choi, cabbage greens, dandelion greens, mustard greens, and even seaweed! However, you should be a little careful, as some vegetables can have negative effects on your parakeet, including calcium deficiencies and liver problems.

A good diet can be essential during parakeet rearing and can make the difference between healthy and unhealthy chicks. For these reasons, it is very important to have a piece of cuttlefish bone and also a mineral block for your parakeet in his brood cage.

Budgies love to eat different seeds, but people are often surprised that they also enjoy eating different nuts and grains. Parakeets also eat things like lentils, beans, almonds, tofu, and even sesame seeds.

As you can see, budgets will eat a wide range of different fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, and seeds, so you can easily add some entertainment and variety to their life by giving them more than the standard budgie seed mix. Like any animal with a higher intelligence budget, it needs some stimulation and excitement! Ideally, you should keep a couple of budgies together for mutual fun, but even then a mixed diet can really make the difference between a sad, unhealthy budgie and a happy, playful budgie.