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Cody-Blu, female Blue-Crowned Conure, Hatched - (approx) June 1, 2014, in a South Florida tree.
Pritti (Cherry-Head Conure) -- Fly in Peace my beautiful boy. Forever I'll love you.
What do you know about the safety of feeding these items to our parrots:
raw, cooked, or just used to flavor a dish
Please help figure this out and share any authoritative, respected avian source links if you have them, because it is very confusing and very important. There are threads here and plenty other places where the question comes up about these foods and it's a total mixed bag of answers. There are informative websites and foods lists that are the same as well).
Some say, no problem, some say totally toxic, some say okay in moderation. So many concerned parronts write that they avoid these foods completely. But that doesn't seem like a solution to a good solid answer from avian specialists or scientists or zoologists that should know the answer. There doesn't seem to be much heavy confusion or debate about chocolate, but why so much abou these other common foods that many eat in our daily diets at home more often than chocolate.
I have been offering Pritti green and red sweet peppers for years. He never eats the green, but always eats the red.
I have just discovered that he loves parsley. I never thought to give it to him until yesterday. Now I'm holding off.
Interested to hear from you. Thanks in advanc for participating in the thread.
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raw, cooked, or just used to flavor a dish
- onion and relatives (leeks, chives, garlic)
- eggplant (have seen random things about no nightshade veggies)Do you
- sweet green and red peppers (nightshade family)
- parsley and other leaf herbs (cilantro, basil, dill, mint)
Please help figure this out and share any authoritative, respected avian source links if you have them, because it is very confusing and very important. There are threads here and plenty other places where the question comes up about these foods and it's a total mixed bag of answers. There are informative websites and foods lists that are the same as well).
Some say, no problem, some say totally toxic, some say okay in moderation. So many concerned parronts write that they avoid these foods completely. But that doesn't seem like a solution to a good solid answer from avian specialists or scientists or zoologists that should know the answer. There doesn't seem to be much heavy confusion or debate about chocolate, but why so much abou these other common foods that many eat in our daily diets at home more often than chocolate.
I have been offering Pritti green and red sweet peppers for years. He never eats the green, but always eats the red.
I have just discovered that he loves parsley. I never thought to give it to him until yesterday. Now I'm holding off.
Interested to hear from you. Thanks in advanc for participating in the thread.
![Green1 :green1: :green1:](/img/parrotsmilie/green1.gif)