Playful Parrot Food - Growing Grass Shoots

You can grow grass shoots from your birds seed - its a source of LIVING green plant food that my budgies and cockatiels love. Healthy and stimulating - more interesting for the bird than pecking seed from a cup! Easy to do, and fun to watch your birdies enjoying!
This is a type of environmental enrichment/ captive foraging.

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[TheBookr]

Can you please tell me which seed should i put.

Like sunflowers seed , or millet. can you please tell me the name of the seeds which i can put.

Please tell me , please i love my cockatiel and i just want them to be happy and healthy.

[LikeSheHas]

@TheBookr You can plant ANY of the bird seed you feed your bird. You can also grow it in the ground over spring/summer and it will grow fresh whole grass seeds - like millet sprays. You might also be able to find fresh grass seeds growing in your neighbourhood if you know what to look for.  I have a video on that too. Also, you might be interested in sprouting bird seed (not in dirt) as it is much better for your bird than dry seed. Ill send you a message with the videos to watch!

[JoostShino]

doing this for my rats :D they love to walk through the grass and eat it :)

[LikeSheHas]

@JoostShino Sounds like you have lucky rats!

[sportsgirl4444]

so you can use any kind of soil like if you get it from the garden center in a bag?

[LikeSheHas]

@sportsgirl4444 I would be very careful about potting mix. I will use very old potting mix, or soil from the garden instead - because in most new potting mixes, there is a high amount of fertilisers and all kinds of chemicals which could be dangerous... especially those little round fertiliser pellets - they look like seeds and the birds will go straight for them.

[Graff1zArt]

We can use any bird seed we get from the store?

[watercatfish]

can you do this for an Africangrey?

[JewelConure]

Great idea using strawberry containers I was looking around for things to use but did not think of that one it will be perfect , thanks my Conure will love it !

[trainingyourparrot]

Cool, my cockatiel will love them

[trainingyourparrot]

Cool, it is great that you are feeding your birds natural food. I think I will grow the shoots with the first method for my cockatiel, he loves chewing on all sorts of leaves!

[KarinaRockss]

aww i have the same bird lol i love the part at 1:10 when the bird says "Yay My Favorite! LOL

[HMDFerretlover]

Your bird looks just like mine. His name is Arnold and i have a vid. of him/her about asking if he's a boy or a girl!!!!! :)