Food brand & vitamins

What kind of food do you give to your Amazon?
Do you use any vitamins?

I give my thirty year old Blue Front a pro-biotic once a month in his organic mash from ( here's a plug..Bird Street Bistro) along with pellets, different fruits,banana,grapes,berry's,peppers ( he throws them out the cage ). A chicken leg bone as a treat,nutraberries as a treat,avicake. Seems to like sweet potato..he loves to rip off corn on the cob! I get mini cobs,cut off a one inch thick hunk the cut it in half.


Jim

There’s a “general” consensus...from what I’ve read here...to stay away from vitamins, either powder or liquid. Since it’s impossible to regulate how much your bird is actually getting, she’s either not getting enough to do her any good, or too much, which can be harmful.

Make sure you know the “no no” vegetables and fruits, and then, do everything you can to offer a variety of the good stuff to her every day...several times a day. If she doesn’t touch something the first time, that DOESN’T mean she won’t start loving it later.

My young Amazon is eating just about everything I could hope she would eat, but I might have just gotten lucky. All types of peppers, squash, corn, carrots, spinach, okra...and the important fruits and berries. Since I’m retired and usually home all day, he gets FOUR different things in his wet bowl throughout the day. Say red pepper in the morning, mango a few hours later, then carrot, then blueberries. And never the same thing two days in a road:

Don’t spoil her with the one thing she loves, because then she won’t try new stuff.

I took a huge Tupperware tub and put all of my bird’s fruit and vegetables in there in the fridge, packaged separately. Why so anal? Well, I had so many different things all over the fridge that I forgot I had them! Now I pull out the tub and his diet is there.

And let’s say you get her summer squash and a bag of okra? How much squash and okra can one Amazon eat!? So I portion out for him, and eat the rest myself.

My Sam, the BFA turned 37 the other day. I feed Harrison's Coarse Lifetime, Zupreem Natural and Roudybush medium with one small spoon of a seed mix. Everyday he gets carrot, peas, corn, broccoli, apple, banana and blueberries. On occasion, he loves pizza, pasta with sauce and peanut butter. I just found Nutriberries for senior birds, and for treats he gets a walnut piece or almond. Plain spaghetti and whole wheat toast round out the diet.

My BFA Gonzo loves Harrison's Adult Lifetime Coarse and a variety of fresh veggies/fruits. Some of his favorites include cooked yams/sweet potatoes, lima beans, peas, edamame in the pod, blackeye peas, garbanzo beans, apple, pear, banana, melon seeds, pomegranate, etc. I serve whole grain spiral noodles with vegetables added. For treats, he loves room temperature cooked oatmeal, bits of whole grain bread, tiny piece of string cheese weekly, and a few pieces of Cheerios once a week.

Scott said:

My BFA Gonzo loves Harrison's Adult Lifetime Coarse and a variety of fresh veggies/fruits. Some of his favorites include cooked yams/sweet potatoes, lima beans, peas, edamame in the pod, blackeye peas, garbanzo beans, apple, pear, banana, melon seeds, pomegranate, etc. I serve whole grain spiral noodles with vegetables added. For treats, he loves room temperature cooked oatmeal, bits of whole grain bread, tiny piece of string cheese weekly, and a few pieces of Cheerios once a week.

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A footnote here:

Only the plain Cheerios, none of the flavored ones.

And my avian vet told me they don’t have to just be once in awhile. Like 10 a day are no problem.

I don’t GIVE mine anywhere near that many, but I’m not afraid to be a little more generous with them compared to other processed foods.

Ira7 said:

Scott said:

My BFA Gonzo loves Harrison's Adult Lifetime Coarse and a variety of fresh veggies/fruits. Some of his favorites include cooked yams/sweet potatoes, lima beans, peas, edamame in the pod, blackeye peas, garbanzo beans, apple, pear, banana, melon seeds, pomegranate, etc. I serve whole grain spiral noodles with vegetables added. For treats, he loves room temperature cooked oatmeal, bits of whole grain bread, tiny piece of string cheese weekly, and a few pieces of Cheerios once a week.

Click to expand...

A footnote here:

Only the plain Cheerios, none of the flavored ones.

And my avian vet told me they don’t have to just be once in awhile. Like 10 a day are no problem.

I don’t GIVE mine anywhere near that many, but I’m not afraid to be a little more generous with them compared to other processed foods.

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Correct, original "plain" Cheerios are about as benign as a cereal can be.

Take a look at the Sticky Thread near the top of the Amazon Forum, Titled: I Love Amazons - ... Within that huge Thread you will find a Segment Titled something like Diet for an Amazon... There is a list of Segments starting on page 1 that lists the Segments and what page they can be found on.

Our goal is to provide a diet very much like our Amazon would find in its Home Range with pellets added as a supplement.