Sulpher Crested Diet

[bleedinggreen]

Interested to hear what you feed your pet S/C Cockies. What seeds do your's eat (apart from sunflower)? And do your source raw nuts, or feed any unsulted nuts for human consumption?

Cheers.

[jusdeb]

Im assuming Sulphurs and Corellas would eat the same food so heres what Bubba is eating so far ( the baby we found ) ...large parrot mix ( eats most the seeds ) loves wombok and buk choy , apple , orange ,corn on the cob , toast and almonds but his favourite is pine nuts which we now feed to him as a reward or treat ( too bloody expensive lol ).
We are lucky that he will try most foods so he gets a bit of everything we eat including cooked meat ( small amount ) .
He will not eat lettuce but all other leftover salad stuff gets nibbled on ( minus the dressing ).
Hope this helps a bit and Im sure theres lots more they will eat .

[jusdeb]

Oh any meat is whatever he eats from our hands , its not left in the cage ( e coli etc )

[avinet]

If feeding a seed based diet I always recommend feeding a corella a small parrot mix - a standard cockatiel mix. Corellas, especially Short-billed Corellas are prone to getting fat, and there is much more fat in most large parrot mixes than small parrot mixes.

Mixes vary a bit but most large parrot mixes are probably around 15% fat, while small parrot mixes with millets and pannicum are around 6-8%.

Sulphurs seem to be able to handle a higher fat diet without too much problem, and so I would use a large parrot mix with a Sulphur-crest.

And the range of fruit and veggies of course.

In fact I would recommend as ideal to feed pellets to Corellas rather than seed, the same as is recommended for Galahs.

cheers,

Mike

[jusdeb]

thanks avinet for the tip , I will put him onto the small parrot mix asap.