AmazingAmazon
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Hello, everyone.
I posted several weeks ago about my aunt's amazon who is in a less than ideal situation. I live in a different country, so the best that I can do is send things for the bird. I would like to ship some pellets to them. The pet store close to my home carries a brand called Tropican lifetime granules. They also sell small clusters of various seeds and dried fruits called Lafeber's Nutriberries.
Is anyone familiar with these foods? If these are not good pelleted foods to feed the parrot, what is? I do not mind purchasing feed off the internet as long as it is vouched for by someone with Amazon experience.
As for an update, he is eating a slightly better diet, still centred around sunflower seeds, but he is now eating small quantities of the following foods on an irregular basis: sweet potato, tomato, cucumber, carrot, eggs, beet, broccoli and cauliflower stem, orange slices, papaya, okra, green beans, red pepper, watermelon and apple slices. He will eat the occasional cooked bean or pea, but apparently he generally ignores them. I have managed to get a relative to help with transitioning his diet over to something healthier. I'm worried that she will not keep it up, hence the decision to get her to start him on pellets, so that if the helper decides she wants to stop, at the very least he will have a pelleted diet to fall back on.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I posted several weeks ago about my aunt's amazon who is in a less than ideal situation. I live in a different country, so the best that I can do is send things for the bird. I would like to ship some pellets to them. The pet store close to my home carries a brand called Tropican lifetime granules. They also sell small clusters of various seeds and dried fruits called Lafeber's Nutriberries.
Is anyone familiar with these foods? If these are not good pelleted foods to feed the parrot, what is? I do not mind purchasing feed off the internet as long as it is vouched for by someone with Amazon experience.
As for an update, he is eating a slightly better diet, still centred around sunflower seeds, but he is now eating small quantities of the following foods on an irregular basis: sweet potato, tomato, cucumber, carrot, eggs, beet, broccoli and cauliflower stem, orange slices, papaya, okra, green beans, red pepper, watermelon and apple slices. He will eat the occasional cooked bean or pea, but apparently he generally ignores them. I have managed to get a relative to help with transitioning his diet over to something healthier. I'm worried that she will not keep it up, hence the decision to get her to start him on pellets, so that if the helper decides she wants to stop, at the very least he will have a pelleted diet to fall back on.
Thank you in advance for your help.