Food for pet and aviary budgerigars needs to be selected and offered with a number of principles and ideals in mind
The food needs to be fresh and nutritious, free from mould, contamination by mice, rats or other birds, and free from poisons.
The food needs to be offered in such a way and quantity that it will be consumed before it becomes spoiled.
We want the food offered over a 24 hour period to be nutritionally balanced and the food consumed over a 24 hour period to be nutritionally balanced.
The food should be offered in such a way as to mimic the feeding habits of the birds in the wild. Budgerigars tend to gorge early morning and late afternoon so ideally should be
fed seed twice a day and greens throughout the day.
The nutritional requirements of budgerigars may differ with the time of the year, the breeding and moulting cycles.
The types and variety of food that we commonly offer our pet birds frequently have little resemblance to the diets their ancestors ate in the wild before the land was degraded by
human agriculture and farming.
