Dear Friends,
I can't stop laughing about any website which would actually say that one should not feed fruit seeds to parrots! Someone is not reading the conservation/wild flock data in magazines all over the birdworld. Fruit seeds are one of THE most important food sources for parrots and where ever we can in captivity, we should try to duplicate such feedings.
Parrots eat gauva seeds, fig seeds (ever hear of fig parrots anyone, or all the macaws who feed on strangler figs?) gauva seeds, passionfruit seeds, palm seeds, oak seeds, eucalyptus seeds, podocarpus seeds, papaya seeds, some citris seeds, apple seeds (NO they are NOT toxic and there are documented cases of whole flocks of cockatoos or south american parrots moving into orchards to seek out the seeds inside apples, discarding majority of pulp--my flock have been eating them for 20 years, I eat them too!) and many many more seeds. Melons, pomegranates, kiwi, too. If you can find fresh fruit it is best, if not dried as in figs is just as enjoyable if a bit more sticky. These kinds of raw foods are the one thing which is better than formulated, heated and dried pelleted foods for our parrots because they still have living nutrients in them in the exact amounts put there by mother nature. Enzymes, phyto nutrients, chlorophyll and such not available in processed foods. Besides, parrots systems evolved eating wet, soft and fresh materials, not dry and powdered materials. Think green....
