RIO Berry Mix For Parakeets & Parrots - 190 g

RIO Berry Mix For Parakeets & Parrots - 190 g is a 190 g mix of dried berries from Rio, in pieces sized for parakeets and parrots.

Key Features

• Dried berries: Rio's description of the mix, in larger pieces than the budgie version.
• Separable into rewards: Individual berries make clean training rewards, which is the best use for them.
• One hundred and ninety grams: A single pack size on this listing.
• Made for parakeets and parrots: The pieces are the size a bigger beak wants, and that is the real difference between this and the budgie mix.

Dried Berries Are Sugar

• Drying removes water and concentrates sugar, so dried berries are a good deal sweeter by weight than fresh ones.
• Treats stay under about a tenth of what a bird eats in a day. It is an easy rule and almost nobody keeps to it, which is why overweight cage birds are so common.
• Give it from your hand or in a separate dish rather than tipping it into the seed bowl. Mixed in, a bird eats the interesting part and leaves its actual food.
• For a cockatiel, a few berries is the daily ceiling. For a larger parrot there is more room, but not as much as the pack suggests.

Which Bird This Is Actually For

• Parakeets and parrots covers everything from a cockatiel to a grey, so tell us which you have and we will give you a number rather than a rule.
• If you keep budgies rather than something bigger, the 180 g fruit and berry mix is the one cut to their size.

Good To Know

• Keep it sealed, dry and out of the sun. Dried fruit and oily seed both turn in this humidity, and anything musty, dusty or webbed goes in the bin rather than the cage.
• Introduce anything new in a small amount and watch the droppings for a day. A sudden change of food upsets a small bird quickly.