Eclectus Parrot Food Harrisons High Potency Coarse Pellets

http://www.ParrotsHealth.com with Avian Vet Specialist Dr Ross Perry brings you Dr Ross Perry's advice about the suitability of Harrisons High Potency Coarse Pellets as an aspect of the diet of captive Eclectus Parrots, other large parrots and cockatoos.

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Pets & Animals

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• Parrots
• Health
• parrot
• Eclectus
• Bird
• Food
• Harrisons
• High
• Potency
• Coarse
• Pellets

[fgdfhtrhg]

I'm really confused, i just bough Harrison's  high potency fine and i don't know how to feed it. do i mix it with water ? my cockatiels are two years old.

[DoctorRossPerry]

@fgdfhtrhg Usually the pellets are fed dry, like bird seeds but sometimes we add moist products such as a little apply juice or tahini to that medicines and/or nutraceuticals stick to the pellets. Read the fine print of the label and also follow the link provided to HarrisonsBirdFoods dotcom and study introducing your birds to pellets. Monitor how much is being eaten, and when.

[DoctorRossPerry]

@fgdfhtrhg also explore goldcoastbirdvet dotcom

[TheBallymoremonty]

Hi Dr. Ross,

I'm still persevering with the HPC pellet diet. She's still not keen. What I do now is give her a mix of brown rice, peas, corn, lentils, dried fruit (I vary this week to week). She loves this and I put the pellets through it, just after boiling the rice, so I think she eats them now.

She still takes her fresh fruit and veg everyday, chopped Celery, grapes, apple, kiwi etc. She's actually gone of her favourite, celery. I give her a small bit of mixed nuts, seeds in the evening.

[DoctorRossPerry]

@TheBallymoremonty Tx. I feel you're on track and I am happy with what you are doing under the circumstances. Remember to enrich her habitat and make her think and work for her favourite foods. Perhaps set up an indoor dead shrub or large branched tree branch and hang different foods on different branches, some easy to get, some hard to get.? Best wishes from DownUnder! Ross Perry

[TheBallymoremonty]

Thanks Dr. Perry, just to let you know I'm half way across the world here in Donegal, Ireland and your wealth of knowledge on Ekkies has really helped me along, thanks again.

[DoctorRossPerry]

@TheBallymoremonty Two of my aims are to help raise the standards of care and quality of life of caged and pet birds around the world, so I really appreciate your thanks, especially from Donegal, a place with heart connections that I have yet to visit in this lifetime.

[DoctorRossPerry]

@TheBallymoremonty Sounds good to me. Persevere with harrisons. try soaking/coating a few pellets in different organic fruit and berry juices and let me know if you find one she likes, vs organic cooking oils but Not Canola or Corn/Maize as very likely to be genetically modified etc (canola is).

[TheBallymoremonty]

Hi,

Me again! I bought the organic pellet and Peppa (my female ekkie) wasn't that keen on them on their own. I do a mix every day that goes as follows Chopped Celery, grapes, apple, kiwi. A small handful of harrisons course pellets, a few mixed beans, around 10 to 15 sunflower seeds and a small bit of millet.

The four fruit and veg that I said is almost a staple for her as their her favourite, although I try her with something different every day. How does that sound to you?

[DoctorRossPerry]

If you are a birdaholic and feed a totally organic natural diet that mimics what eclectus eat in the wild that is my first preference, otherwise following harrisons HPC pellet diet and associated instructions re fruit berries etc is the way I go for simplicity and ease, and pairing bird with compatible male eclectus etc. See Eclectushealth website