Feeding your Pet Parrot

All parrots at MT RAMORNIE AVIARIES are reared on LakesTM or Kaytee (USA) Hand-Rearing Formula, then weaned onto dry and sprouted seeds and a wide variety of fresh foods. Below you will find a listing of goodies for your bird. Usually your bird will eat 1/2-1 cup full of fresh food per day plus a dry seed mixture.
An easy way to substitute fresh food, if you run out, is frozen mixed vegetables + some apple.
 
An example of fresh Parrot Food as fed at MT RAMORNIE AVIARIES:

GREENS & VEGETABLES
Celery
Silverbeet
Carrots (raw/cooked)
Peas, Snow Peas
Corn (fresh/frozen/cooked)
Parsley
Beans
Brassicas (Cauliflower, Broccoli etc)
Capsicum, Chillies
Pumpkin (cooked)
Squash
Zucchini (raw/cooked)
Chinese Vegies
Cabbage
Sweet Potato (cooked)
Beetroot (cooked)		 FRUIT
Apple
Orange
Mandarin
Pear
Passionfruit
Melons
Grapes and/or Raisins
any type of Berries 

any other fruit in season except Avocado -
it is poisonours to your parrot
 
A few Almonds & unsalted Peanuts are a favourite treat, enjoyed by most parrots 
(you might want to experiment with any other unsalted nut variety)		 + sprouted seeds (pigeon mix, mung, chickpea, sunflower, safflower) whenever possible, recommended for breeding pairs
Larger Birds (Amazons, Alexandrines etc) do enjoy Dog Biscuits and Arrowroot Cookies If you have access to a garden, grass seed heads, chickweed and amaranth are nutritious and provide entertainment 

I recommend some cuttlefish bone or a calcium block at molting time.
A fresh branch of Wattle/Gum/Fruit Tree* as often as possible will entertain your friend; and at the same time will trim its beak.

For further questions, help or advice, feel free to call me on (02) 6647 3344 or email me at
ramornie.aviaries@bigpond.com

I hope you will enjoy your bird for many years to come.
Yours,
Barbara Schleppi
MT RAMORNIE AVIARIES

*Mt Ramornie Aviaries offers to supply you with a seed packet of organically grown "Pigeon Pea" (cajanus cajan), a shrub that grows to 2 m, very hardy legume, and very quick growing; although will die down in winter, it should come back next spring. A great favourite to all species of parrots. They love to devour the branches and especially like the pods.
Please send $3.00 in stamps/cheque + self addressed envelope to: "Elanora", Ramornie Station, Ramornie NSW 2460 - marked "Pigeon Pea"

                 (02) 6647 3344