These are some foods given to quaker parrots you can choose from these-
Groups of foods are ranked by nutritional value, not by how much they like it!
Great Stuff!:
Whole wheat breads Oats Corn Brown rice
Cornbread Peas Most Beans Broccoli
Cauliflower Carrots Asparagus Spinach
Whole wheat or Vegetable pasta Turnip Greens, Mustard Greens Peppers (Bell, Jalapeno, chile, etc.)
Parsley Egg noodles Bulgur Wheat Cheerios
Wheat Germ Cooked Chicken and Turkey Potatoes, Egg, cooked
Apple Yogurt Cottage cheese, Banana
Pumpkin Seeds Pine Nuts Life cereal Kashi
Papaya
Good Stuff:
Grapes Oranges Grapefruit Lemon
Lime Cherries Pomegranate Peaches
Nectarine Watermelon Cantaloupe Honeyde...
Blackberries Blueberries Pears Pineappl...
Romaine Lettuce Red Cabbage Butter Lettuce Greenleaf Lettuce
Turnips Radishes Bread Pasta
Biscuits Millet Cucumber Tomato
Squash Zucchini cooked Rice Almonds
Canary Grass seed Garbanzo Beans Granola cereal (no sugar) Water Chestnuts
Oatmeal Mango
Good Limited: (Good Nutrition, but high in fat)
Brazil Nuts Peanuts Peanut Butter Walnuts
Pecans Cashews Cooked beef and pork Macaroni & cheese
Sunflower seeds Safflower seeds Cream Cheese hard cheeses
Pizza
Neutral Stuff: (not bad for them, but not much nutrition)
Lettuce Cabbage Celery Crackers
white bread flour tortillas Bagels Biscuits
Popcorn Onions Mushrooms Hominy Grits
Neutral Limited: Not =bad= (ie not toxic), but high in fat, salt or sugar
French fries Potato chips Tortilla chips Sausages
Lunchmeat Cookies Cake Muffins
Pretzels Frankfurters Gatorade Kool-aid
most breakfast cereals butter/
margarine
most canned foods, soups, etc Ice cream
Doughnuts Pastries
BAD stuff: (toxic or possibly harmful)
Avocado Chocolate Caffeine Alcohol
Carbonated drinks Milk (they can’t digest it) dried fruits (containing sulfides or sulphates) most houseplants
catnip marijuana Gatorade
Sorry for not giving the commas " , "
From my opinion you should provide different kinds of veggies like chillie pepper,peas,most beans (but never provide dry beans they can be poisonous for your bird), spinach and fruits like apple,banana,papaya, grapes everyday if you can. And as you said about seed mixture you should also give it as a part of the bird's diet.
For Example-
My Indian Ringneck and my Eclectus parrot eat the same kind of food and I feed them 3 times a day(not more than that) but two times a day is enough
At morning (Like 6 or 7 AM) I give them some veggies as i mentioned
At 4 PM I give them some chopped fruits
And at night like 10 PM I fill their bowls with soaked gram seeds.
If you want your parrot to live a long life then you must provide different veggies or fruits including some sort of seeds everyday.
Good Luck!!!
My blue Quaker is not big on fruits - however, corn and sugar snap peas - he loves.
Seed mixture is not enough for a Quaker. Besides all the things Sam has cut and pasted - Quakers love people food. Mine loves pasta, noodles, and meats like turkey, chicken, and especially any pig product like ham, pieces of BBQ ribs, jerkey etc. If you can eat it - he can eat it - within reason. You need to watch the foods with lots of salt - mine will eat most anything with salt like chips, potatoes, French fries, etc.
Mine sits with me every night at dinner. Even on Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner - after everyone is almost finished eating I bring him to table for turkey and mashed potatoes.
I feed the one I have a seed mixture and I just want to know if that's enough.
