BlueFrontOwner
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- Jul 29, 2013
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When I got my Amazon parrot over 20 years ago, it seemed a seed diet supplemented with table food was the best diet at that time.
Now it seems that everyone is pushing the pellet diet. The one time I brought my bird to the vet in 20 years, the vet was even trying to also push a pellet diet and telling me table food isn't good.
I know from human diets that a lot of what people know is just what is popular and many times there is no evidence that certain diets are better than others.
I believe that this pellet diet is just being pushed for profit and most people just believe the marketers pushing this diet.
Granted, I agree that a 100% seed diet may not be good, but a diet that consists of a lot of different types of table food is good enough. Today most seed food you buy is a mixture of pellets and seeds anyway.
The thing is my bird seems to only like table food and she likes to be on the table when I eat. She doesn't like these pellet diets either, she just seems to crumble them and drop them to the bottom of the cage.
Really, I don't have a choice about the table food because she will scream the entire time I am eating if I don't let her eat what I'm eating. I am also OK with this to be honest.
Does anyone here allow their amazon to eat a lot of table food, or is everybody on this Fad pellet diet now.
Now it seems that everyone is pushing the pellet diet. The one time I brought my bird to the vet in 20 years, the vet was even trying to also push a pellet diet and telling me table food isn't good.
I know from human diets that a lot of what people know is just what is popular and many times there is no evidence that certain diets are better than others.
I believe that this pellet diet is just being pushed for profit and most people just believe the marketers pushing this diet.
Granted, I agree that a 100% seed diet may not be good, but a diet that consists of a lot of different types of table food is good enough. Today most seed food you buy is a mixture of pellets and seeds anyway.
The thing is my bird seems to only like table food and she likes to be on the table when I eat. She doesn't like these pellet diets either, she just seems to crumble them and drop them to the bottom of the cage.
Really, I don't have a choice about the table food because she will scream the entire time I am eating if I don't let her eat what I'm eating. I am also OK with this to be honest.
Does anyone here allow their amazon to eat a lot of table food, or is everybody on this Fad pellet diet now.