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 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. Quarions tend to gorge early morning and late afternoon and therefore should be
offered their main food (seeds, pellets or crumbles) at those times and a variety of fresh greens throughout the day. Ad lib feeding of seed may lead to obesity.
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. The practice whereby we usually feed a limited mixture of introduced seed types often leads to disease.
