What Do Baby Parrots Eat?
In the wild they eat what their parents eat, after it has been partly digested and turned into a gooey mess for them. At Belize Bird Rescue we feed any parrot babies (or indeed sickly adults) that come our way, on our very popular ‘baby food’. We boil up some sweet corn (we try and use the expensive yellow cob-corn, although the hard yellow feed-corn will work if it’s extremely well boiled). We don’t use canned corn as it’s too high in salt. We get the complete parrot food in the form of dried pellets from Reimer’s Feed Mill (Spanish Lookout, Belmopan and Belize City) and soak them in boiled water (preferably using the water poured off the corn) until they soften. We add a couple of scoops of soft papaya, a drop of bird-vitamin and whizz the whole lot up in a food processor. This is then offered gently into the birds’ open (and hopefully willing) beak with a plastic syringe, without the needle. The bird is not forced to eat. He feeds 4 or 5 times a day and we always allow a ‘rest’ at n
