Safe Flowers You Can Feed Your Parrot | Parrot Diet | TheParrotTeacher AD
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Hey guys, thanks for watching this video on flowers you can give your parrots!
I would like to thank BuyWholeFoodsOnline for working with me on this video and providing the flowers I featured!
I have included a selection of our favourite flowers as well as ones I think are most useful to give your parrot.
Preparing flowers is simple, easy and fun and they can be provided in so many ways to supplement your parrots diet!
Make sure any flowers you provide have no caffeine and are from a decent retailer like BuyWholeFoodsOnline.
As usual, any more I've missed, ideas etc please feel free to leave them in the comments!
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Kinda random but I love the portraits at the back. My favourite. Love the company. :)
Thank you! We got them gifted to us along with ones for the cockatiels!
This is a brilliant video, you’ve shown how easy it is to add this to our parrots diet, I’m definitely gonna be buying these from whole foods as well as the good seeds in your previous videos
Hey Yamuna,
Thank you very much for the kind comment! Definitely worth picking up some flowers, especially the ones mentioned in the video!
Love when everything blooms again around my area. Free dandelion and clover flowers all over the place in the yard! I know budgies and cockatiels love eating the pedals. Wonder if the ones you listed would grow around here or not, might be worth growing some just in the summer, in a big batch, and freezing for the off season.
Hey An,
You could try them. I'd imagine many would be fairly hardy especially if you kept them covered!
excellent and excatly the info i needed
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Hey man, I just got a pair of cockatiels last Friday and I wanted to thank you SO MUCH for putting out such great information! You're really helping both me and the birds live a better, healthier life! I do have a question though! I recently got two cockatiels and I'd love to let them fly around because I think they're beginning to get quite bored in their cage. However, they're not hand tame yet and I'm reluctant to let them out of the cage unless they at least can step up. They'll both eat out of my hand, and the male will occasionally put a foot up, but the female is still quite distrusting. I don't want to have to chase them around the room and damage what trust I've gained just to get them back in their cage at night. Send help! 😅
Hey Taylor,
Thank you for the kind comment!
So, I'd suggest target training as a solution! Many trainers recommend it for nervous or non hand tame birds. Once it's trained, it will make it much smoother getting them back into the cage without having hands as involved!
Having them step up trained is ideal, but with targeting it'll give you another useful tool to use! (It's also good for mental stimulation, communication, dangerous situations and trick training!)
@@TheParrotTeacher I'll get to work on it! It's been a bit tough because they're from a rehoming situation, but I think we've made great progress so far. Thank you so much!
@@taylorpotter2845 No problems!
Thank you for sharing this. I went and ordered all these flowers that you recommended. My babies is going to love it.
Your videos are so helpful
Thank you Christina for the nice comment!
You'll have lots to try out with them! Our parrots faves are Chamomile, Marigold and Hibiscus! The other two we have to sneak in or add as extras to the teas lol
@@TheParrotTeacher aww that is good then. I have never been comfortable trying these kinds of things. But I always wanted to. I am really grateful that I have found you and Sophie.
Thank you. 😊
@@christinavanrooyen6345 Thank you!
Awesome! Happy to learn about it. Please what about marjoram and verbena? (marjolaine et verveine) thanks a lot!
Hey Zak,
I've double checked this with Sophie and these aren't ones we would commonly recommend. I'd likely avoid them!
@@TheParrotTeacher ok ok fine... thanks so much for answering!
Awesome video! I just got out of a pet store... you can imagine what the scene was like!:
A zebra finch close to death
And a budgie with a ring that is too tight.
Smh lol
Sounds charming!
PetCo?
@@angsfeatheredfriends nope at a place called "villa Verde ". I got my cockatiels from over there and i only really go there to get toys for my birds! I was considering buying two budgies, they were in good health and they seemed quite active!
@@angsfeatheredfriends Not sure I want to go there!
@@TheParrotTeacher this is why i consider my birds as rescues😂
Great video! Been concidering tea for my Budgies so this is very helpful!
I tried to place an order but it looks like they aren't accepting international orders at the moment but I'll try again in the future. 😁
Awww sorry they couldn't send them to you! You could try looking for suppliers in your country!
Thank you for the kind comment!
Is honey safe for birds?keep up your goodwork u are very informative
Not at all. In small quantities it's ok, but if you can give your pewps other foods it's better.
@@futurefreefliers5861 tnx
Basically what King said. You can give it in v.small quantities but with so many other cool things to give your parrots why would you want to!
@@TheParrotTeacher yes why should he give it to his borbs? There are so many foods they can eat. For example I cooked a snack with rice flour, corn flour, an egg, seeds and veggies.
@@futurefreefliers5861 Sounds nice!
Hi! Thank you for your video. Do you add these flowers bare to the seeds or give essense like liquid
Hey Jagodanz,
You can give them dry on top of or with seed. You can also provide it in a tea. There's some serving suggestions in the video!
Hiya great video thanks for sharing. As a new parrot owner I have a blue crowned conure been watching a lot of your videos and want to give my bird great foods like you show, however upon going to the site you linked for the flowers I can't seem to find any flowers do you have a direct link for them please xx
If I’m really honest I don’t remember what site I mentioned it was so long ago! A good place to buy in the uk is Pollys natural parrot boutique!
This is wonderful, I needed a video like this as once my family gets back into shape then I can get my first budgie! Speaking of which, what do you recommend as a beginner budgie cage?
My mom says that a small cage (that is average height and has perches) is good as a beginner cage but I am not sure.
Hey Poppy,
I'd say get as big a cage as you can for them. They may be small birds but they still need lots of space to move around in. It's a bit of a myth that small parrots need small cages!
Also lots of toys and fun things for them to chew and play with!
Hi first view
Hey, thank you!
wholefoods don't ship to Australia, I'm so sad. I'm not sure where else I can buy these and know that its safe for birds
Ahh that is annoying! I'm sure Australia must have some organic flower suppliers. I'd do a bit of searching!
My mom and I garden and we only do organic gardening. No pesticides at all. The only thing we use when we get some bad bugs is neem oil. I'm the flower grower and I was wondering if fresh, undried marigolds are are safe? I could grow some separate from the veggies if they need to be away from the neem oil
That would be fine provided away from the neem oil!
@@TheParrotTeacher so freshly picked is safe?
Generally yes provided they haven’t come into contact with wild birds etc!
They don’t ship to the states ugh seems to be a running theme when it comes to trying to get these flowers.
Hey Amanda you luckily are spoilt for choice in the USA
Look up biobirdblends and china prairie!
@@TheParrotTeacher Oh ok thank you I will!!
So I have a perhaps odd question. How does one make tea when one does not drink tea themselves? Everywhere I've looked the biggest recommendation is to just make yourself a cup, set some aside, dilute it, and then serve it to your bird.
I don't like Chamomile tea so I can't really make myself a cup and then give some of it to my bird. I also don't want to waste it by throwing out most of the cup. I thought maybe I could make a cup of it and put it in my fridge and throw it out at the end of the week, but from what I have found online tea doesn't last long in the fridge once brewed.
Any advice on the ratios I could use to make a very small batch of tea for my birds?
Hey Jessi,
I'm not the biggest tea fan either, most of the stuff we give the birds is just for the birds. Anything from a tea bag isn't ideal so I wouldn't usually recommend people sharing their teas with birds anyway!
Chamomile is actually a good one to use/make. You can make a cup, let it cool, provide the tea to your bird and then either chuck out the bits or strain and serve that day over their chop.
You can also serve chamomile ( and many other flowers) dry either over chop or as part of a dry mix and are edible for your parrots.
I would not keep a brewed tea for longer than a day or two, purely because it isn't ideal if kept for ages.
Ratio wise, we don't tend to be that specific with it. For a small cup we usually use a couple of tea spoons worth!
@@TheParrotTeacher Thank you so much for responding!!! I appreciate the insight. I do have an additional question.
At the same time I posted my comment, I had earlier in the day made a post on the parrot subreddit and someone had what I thought was a pretty neat idea of making the tea and then making chamomile tea ice cubes with it. Then I could melt one for night time tea for my bird or maybe they would even like to crunch on it as a toy.
Would love to hear your thoughts on that approach.
Though admittedly at this point I think I'm settling on just giving the flowers rather than making a tea.
@@jessirarara
You could certainly make ice cubes and then thaw them!
We often provide ice cubes with fruit in them as a summer treat, so it could definitely work with tea too.
When you gave them flowers near the end were they soaked or dry
Hey Pamela,
These were mostly dried. You can provide them either way (dry or strained from the tea)
Can birds eat Sisle
It is safe for them to chew and ingest a tiny bit but they shouldn't be eating it regularly! If they are, I'd likely swap out the toy or watch them closely!
Can they eat safflower ???
Best to just use the seeds from those!
Thanksss
Can you feed them fresh flowers from the garden?
You can, but I'd be cautious depending on where in the world you are!
So stick to safe flowers, like those mentioned in the video and also ensure you aren't in a bird flu risk area!
@@TheParrotTeacher I live in the Netherlands. In the area I live is no bird flu, but thanks for the warning. I will pay extra attention! I have a little herbal garden, especially for our cockatiel, Joey. I planted some mint, some koriander, some oregano, some thyme and some rosemary. Every day I chop up a little bit, to add to his vegetables. And I thought it would be nice to add some edible flowers to his garden. Ones that he can eat, without drying it first, of make tea out of it. Just fresh. Hence the question.
I have switched to a diet of vegetables and herbs and spices, thanks to your video's. To my surprise he didn't have any problems with this. But how do I know if he is not getting too thin? I just want to be sure. It is only been for a week that his diet changed. He only had seeds befor.
@@sietskeluytema2667 so fresh flowers provided they are safe are fine! It sounds awesome what you do! we also have some mint we grow and give to our birds!
Regarding weight, just regularly weighing Joey and monitoring his weight will be enough. You’ll see if it varies too much and can adjust diet.
Don’t forget seed etc is still fine to feed it just needs to be in moderation and part of a balanced diet!
We tend to feed our fresh stuff in the morning and then provide dried bits including some seed in the afternoon!
@@TheParrotTeacher I keep coming up with questions, sorry! I weighed Joey on Monday. Then he weighed 125 gr. I have no comparison: is this a normal weight for a cockatiel (male)?
Weighed again today (Wednesday): 123 gr. Is that something to worry about or is it an accidental drop?
Every afternoon I give him seeds in a tray with all kinds of scraps of paper and cardboard so that he has to search for them. I put about 10 gr. in. Is that enough?
In the morning he gets a bowl of vegetables (with herbs and spices) and I put a little bit of seeds in it so that he is motivated to eat them. Now that the news has worn off, he doesn't find the vegetables that interesting anymore, and I wonder if he's eating enough of them. I will continue to monitor his weight.
@@sietskeluytema9860
Hey Sietske,
So that weight sounds quite high to me. The average weight range for a cockatiel is usually between 90-110g
Another way you can check, if he will allow it is by feeling is keel bone. This is usually done by touching his chest, or easily with lips or nose. If it is sticking out he is likely a little under, if it's bulging and soft then fat, if you can just feel it it's normal.
generally a drop of a few grams isn't an issue, and weight will vary. It's also important to weigh at the exact same time of day too as that can influence things.
Regarding diet and veg, we have videos on that topic!