How can they have yogurt but can’t have milk????

Does your comment about Yogurt being ok for Quakers also apply to cottage cheese? I was told that most if not all birds can’t digest dairy. Looking for any advice for feeding my Quaker Nikko. He has preferences and things he avoids. I tried to give him a spray of millet seed. He won’t even touch it. I tried Grape Nuts cereal and he seemed to really enjoy crunching on those bits a lot! Cheerios and other “healthy” granola cereals are also his favorites. Are there any dried fruit that are ok for Quakers?

Thanks for all the help! =-)

If I feed my parrot dry fruits will I harm him?
My parrot won”t eat fresh fruits. So I whant him to
be healthy. Please reply back to me to see if I”m doing the right thing. Thank you.

What about sesami seeds, its a great source of calcium and I sprinkle it over my bird’s breakfast and dinner – is this good or bad for them ?

HERE IS THE TOXIC/UNHEALTHY PARROT FOOD LIST I HAVE COMPILED:

TOXIC OR UNHEALTHY BIRD FOODS

Avoid anything high is salt, sugar, and fat content.
Alcohol
Apple seeds
Apricot pits
Asparagus
Avocado (entire plant and fruit)
Beans ? Kidney, Lima
Beans, any dried
Butter
Caffeine
Carbonated beverages
Cherry pits
Chocolate
Cigarrete tobacco
Egg Plant
Gatorade
Milk/cream in large quantities
Nectarine pits
Olives
Onions (raw or cooked)
Peach pits
Pear pips
Plum pits
Raw Peanuts
Rhubarb
Tobacco
Tomato (entire plant and fruit)
Houseplants (most are toxic, not all)
dried fruits (containing sulfides or sulphates)

It is best to get the lists of SAFE plants, woods and foods and just stick with them. Otherwise, check with your vet for anything not on the SAFE list!

To be extra safe, peel AND core fruits. Peels contain pesticides and should be disinfected with either Avicine or Citricidal. Certain fruits and vegetables have seeds that are toxic to parrots. Sometimes products can be found on organic produce.

Here are important links concerning things that are toxic to your bird:

LIST OF PLANTS TOXIC TO BIRDS:
http://www.birdsnways.com/articles/plntstox.htm

LIST OF TREES TOXIC TO BIRDS:
http://www.mdvaden.com/bird_page.shtml
(This does not mean lumber! Consider all treated lumber as possibly toxic)

LIST OF COMMON HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS TOXIC TO BIRDS:
http://www.avianlove.com/content.php?content_id=9

LISTS OF THINGS TOXIC AND NON-TOXIC TO BIRDS:
http://www.parrot-and-conure-world.com/non-toxic-for-birds.html

RECIPES FOR PARROTS
http://www.parrothouse.com/recipes.html

Is there a prepared bird food that uses great and good food without the high fat sunflower and safflower seeds? Not pellets – my birds eat Zupreme, but they get bored

I have a 40 year old African Grey that has always eaten beans, kidney beans etc and has never had a health problem in his life and is regularly checked by my Avian vet. He also eats asparagus, pizza with onions and black olives on it and also raw peanuts as a treat about 3 times a week.

i gave my pocket parrots [ celists] apple and they have pooped everywhere and i mean everywhere are they gonna be ok?????

my blue quaker parrot loves bananas. i give him bird food from a pet store and then a fruit every once in a while for a treat mostly bananas. they really like bananas and apples.

Hey how can dried fruits be bad for them as most of the bird mashes sold at pet shops contain dried fruits. I brought parrot deli treats produced by veta farm and they have sunflower seeds, some pellet things, penauts, almonds, sultanas and seasonal dried fruits in there which I am guessing is pineapple and paw paw or mango or apricot and half the other bird mashes suggested in those bird keeper magazines also have them in there. I have two green cheek conures and there being pretty advantures when it comes to food I’m not sure if they had a variety when I got them but they don’t seem to mind having a taste. But they get varied fruits and vegetables what ever we have in the fridge at time and what ever I feel like giving them, they get the occassional dog food biscuit which I think they just like to nibble on they also get occassional bread soaked in sweetened water (honey, syrup or brown sugar) because we feed the wild honey eaters and lorikeets that they also get gravillia flowers and one likes those little Chinese snack jellies. I also get wild cockatoos that come and they eat the macadamia nuts that are still green and they steal whole passion fruit from the vine and I use to feed them just wild bird seed you buy at the shops some were really friendly and they would let you pat them which makes you think if other people have been feeding them or if they were someone’s pet where as others were scared and we also had a few cockatoos that had metal rings on there feet come in

Birds shouldn’t have dried fruit because of the preservatives(sulfur) in them. You can get preservative free ones but they dont look as good, the sulfur keeps the colour nice.

This is what u CAN feed ur parot

Parrot food ingredients for mix:

dried fruits (NO sulfides or sulphates). No salt or sugar or milk. Yogurt yes

Sprouted seed
Safflower not a lot high in fat
Peanuts not a lot either
Legumes
Almonds 
Hazelnuts
Sesame seeds
Pecans
Mango
Fig
Papaya
Banana
Oranges
Yogurt cove raisins 
Cayenne pepper
Bell pepper
Zucchini 
Sweet potatoes
Bee pollen

Nekton for healthy feathers 

Plain Cheerios 

I have a Quaker Parrot that always wants crackers. Is it bad to feed her crackers daily?