What foods should parrots not eat
1. High-fat junk food
Most of the snacks that people eat are not for parrots, such as potato chips, donuts, etc. These foods are high in fat, and parrots are prone to fatty liver disease after eating them, even if some snacks have fat content Very low, but generally processed and added with a small amount of additives, these foods will also affect the health of parrots.
2. Drinks containing caffeine
Parrots cannot metabolize caffeine by themselves. If you feed the parrots food containing caffeine such as chocolate, it will cause its poisoning, such as chocolate bread and any other food containing caffeine. Do not feed parrots anything with caffeine. Symptoms of chocolate poisoning in parrots include disorientation, hyperactivity, vomiting, diarrhea, dark stools, heart disease, and death. In addition, parrots cannot eat avocados. Some types of avocados can cause parrot poisoning. Be careful not to feed these foods to parrots.
3. Milk
Parrots have no chance to drink milk when they live in the natural environment, and parrots have no digestive enzymes to decompose milk. To be precise, parrots cannot Digestion of foods containing lactose, if the parrot’s diet contains 10-30% lactose, the bird will cause diarrhea. In addition, parrots are not suitable for eating galactose food. They are likely to be poisoned after eating these foods, which seriously threatens the life of parrots.
4. Foods containing alcohol
Alcohol consumption by parrots can cause serious damage to their livers, and even It will die directly, and the owner should avoid any food with alcohol content. In addition, some seeds or cores can also cause parrot poisoning. For example, apple cores contain cyanide. When feeding apples to birds, owners must remove the cores before feeding them. Not only apples, but any core contains cyanide. Foods that can produce cyanide glycosides should not be fed to parrots. If you accidentally feed the pits to the parrot, you need to send it to the veterinary hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
6. Onions
Onions are highly toxic to birds because they contain a chemical called N-propyl disulfide denatured hemoglobin, which can Destroy the red blood cells in the bird’s body, so the bird can cause anemia, jaundice, hematuria and other diseases after eating onion.
7. Persimmons
Rejection Scientific research shows that persimmons are also toxic to parrots, and they cannot be fed to them either.
8. Carbonated drinks
Birds cannot expel the gas produced by carbonated drinks by burping like humans, so it is very dangerous for parrots to eat carbonated drinks.
