If you?re interested in taking care of lovebirds, then you will want to ensure that you do everything you can to keep them happy. One thing that is important to the health of your lovebirds is ensuring that you have proper food for your lovebirds. By making sure that your lovebirds get the food they need, you will keep them happy and healthy. And while many items you have already might be good for your lovebirds, there are also several things that make bad food for lovebirds, since they can be poisonous.

In The Wild

Wild lovebirds are completely herbivorous, so their main foods consist of berries, seeds, fruits, grains, grasses, and crops like corn and figs. Keeping this in mind when selecting food for your lovebirds will help you to make some selections. For instance, a little corn in your birds? diet will be fine if you want to give them something special.

Pellet-Based Diets

One option for food for your lovebirds is to go with a pellet based diet. These pellets are manufactured to meet a lovebird?s nutritional needs, so it?s easy to keep a bird healthy with these. However, the drawback is lovebirds tire of food that tastes the same all the time, so the lack of variety is a barrier to getting your lovebirds to eat.

Seed-Based Diets

On the other hand, many owners choose to use seeds for food for their lovebirds. This adds more variety to diets, since lovebirds enjoy the different types of seeds that tend to come in this food. On the other hand, seed-based diets don?t provide lovebirds with all the nutrition, particularly vitamins and calcium, that come from the pellet-based diets. In this case, you will want to add other things to supplement this.

Adding Supplements

In addition to pellets or seeds, you can add vegetables, nuts, and other foods for your lovebirds to add variety. Particularly good for this are fruits like grapes, bananas, kiwis, and apples, though for apples you will want to remove the seeds. Leafy vegetables like spinach, lettuce, garden herbs, and the like also make great food, though you want to avoid rhubarb leaves, as they are poisonous, as are avocados if you try to add other fruits or vegetables. Calcium can be obtained from cuttlebone or gravel and oyster shell in a dish. Through pellets and seeds and other foods to supplement the diet, you will have food for your lovebirds that keeps them happy and healthy for years.

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