Hello everyone and thank you for you for your time, and sorry if my English is strange or bad, its not my native language.
For a few days I will get Patagonian Conure(long story why, and yea I know he is loud, I heard it a lot of times but I don't mind that and I live in a house so neighbors are not problem). He is about 15 years old and for his whole life he was fed seed diet(few vegies every now and then but that's all). For last few days I read a ton of stuff about feeding parrots and I noticed that a lot of people agree that seed diet is probably the worst for birds in captivate so I am going to change that. I made a plan what I will feed him, but I am not very experienced bird keeper so I would like to check with some of you guys is my plan good.
For breakfast (around 9 AM) I would give him homemade chop and let it sit in a cage for 3-4 hours.
Here is my ingredients list for chop(I would mix 6-10 of them, every time differently, more vegetables less fruits and grains): kale, broccoli, cucumbers, baked sweet potatoes, cilantro, different kinds of peppers, apples, cauliflower, papaya, carrot, raspberries, spinach, peas, various beans, hard boiled eggs, grapes, peach, lentils, baby arugula, cabbage, lettuce, green beans, butternut squash, red cabbage, celery, chia seed, almonds, quinoa, sweet corn, popcorn corn, brown rice, flax seeds, oats, millet, barley
For second meal, in the afternoon(around 4 PM) he would get small amount of seeds(I still don't know the right amount because I can not weight him, but I will try to find what is the best overall daily amount, if you have some advice that would be great). Food he eats probably whole life contain 80% sunflower, 10% peanuts, and the rest is oats, soy, corns and hemp, so I have no intension giving that to him anymore even in small amounts, I would rather buy seeds(sunflower, peanuts, corns, buckwheat, hemp, sesame, poppy, millet, Brazilian nuts, cashew nut, Pecan nuts, Hazelnuts, walnuts, pistachios) and mix them myself, every time little bit differently and I would put them in foraging toys.
And for treats I would give him some seeds I notice he likes, fruit and maybe some meat like boiled chicken or mealworms.
So that is my plan, pleas if you have time tell me your opinion and correct me if I have mistakes, also tell me if you think this will be too drastic a change in diet, I know I should consult vet first but in my country there is no many vets who worked with birds before so I would have to drive probably 2 hours to vet and I don't want to stress my bird.
Also I know people feed pellets too and I know some pellets are very good but only pellets I can find in my country are rainbow colored with this ingredients: grains, seeds (at least 10% peanut kernels), fruit (at least 5% fresh fruit), vegetable protein extracts, vegetable by-products, sugar, minerals, L-lysine, methionine, extr. Yucca schidigera, fructo-oligosaccharides, vitamins, trace elements and this analytical constituents(protein 15%, fat content 16%, crude fibre 3%, crude ash 7%, calcium 0.9%, phosphorus 0.6%, methionine 0.35%, lysine 0.8%, threonine 0.5%, tryptophan 0.15%, cystine 0.25%) so I don't think these pellets are very good and I have no problem to make fresh chop every 4-5 days
For a few days I will get Patagonian Conure(long story why, and yea I know he is loud, I heard it a lot of times but I don't mind that and I live in a house so neighbors are not problem). He is about 15 years old and for his whole life he was fed seed diet(few vegies every now and then but that's all). For last few days I read a ton of stuff about feeding parrots and I noticed that a lot of people agree that seed diet is probably the worst for birds in captivate so I am going to change that. I made a plan what I will feed him, but I am not very experienced bird keeper so I would like to check with some of you guys is my plan good.
For breakfast (around 9 AM) I would give him homemade chop and let it sit in a cage for 3-4 hours.
Here is my ingredients list for chop(I would mix 6-10 of them, every time differently, more vegetables less fruits and grains): kale, broccoli, cucumbers, baked sweet potatoes, cilantro, different kinds of peppers, apples, cauliflower, papaya, carrot, raspberries, spinach, peas, various beans, hard boiled eggs, grapes, peach, lentils, baby arugula, cabbage, lettuce, green beans, butternut squash, red cabbage, celery, chia seed, almonds, quinoa, sweet corn, popcorn corn, brown rice, flax seeds, oats, millet, barley
For second meal, in the afternoon(around 4 PM) he would get small amount of seeds(I still don't know the right amount because I can not weight him, but I will try to find what is the best overall daily amount, if you have some advice that would be great). Food he eats probably whole life contain 80% sunflower, 10% peanuts, and the rest is oats, soy, corns and hemp, so I have no intension giving that to him anymore even in small amounts, I would rather buy seeds(sunflower, peanuts, corns, buckwheat, hemp, sesame, poppy, millet, Brazilian nuts, cashew nut, Pecan nuts, Hazelnuts, walnuts, pistachios) and mix them myself, every time little bit differently and I would put them in foraging toys.
And for treats I would give him some seeds I notice he likes, fruit and maybe some meat like boiled chicken or mealworms.
So that is my plan, pleas if you have time tell me your opinion and correct me if I have mistakes, also tell me if you think this will be too drastic a change in diet, I know I should consult vet first but in my country there is no many vets who worked with birds before so I would have to drive probably 2 hours to vet and I don't want to stress my bird.
Also I know people feed pellets too and I know some pellets are very good but only pellets I can find in my country are rainbow colored with this ingredients: grains, seeds (at least 10% peanut kernels), fruit (at least 5% fresh fruit), vegetable protein extracts, vegetable by-products, sugar, minerals, L-lysine, methionine, extr. Yucca schidigera, fructo-oligosaccharides, vitamins, trace elements and this analytical constituents(protein 15%, fat content 16%, crude fibre 3%, crude ash 7%, calcium 0.9%, phosphorus 0.6%, methionine 0.35%, lysine 0.8%, threonine 0.5%, tryptophan 0.15%, cystine 0.25%) so I don't think these pellets are very good and I have no problem to make fresh chop every 4-5 days