The food that budgies eat are: cereals, fruits, vegetables, calcium and so on.
The main diet of budgies is mainly the same as other birds, it is based on grains and cereals, and now the more mainstream feeding food is millet with shells. Budgerigar in feeding, also need to pay attention to calcium, in the feed, need to add some bone meal. Parrots are very fond of berries, including raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, etc. Common fruits such as apples (cored), bananas, oranges, etc. can also be fed to parrots properly.
Vegetables are also essential for parrots to replenish micronutrient food, dry feed-based parrots, should also be fed vegetables, both to replenish water, but also to replenish nutrients. But need to pay attention to budgies can not eat spinach, can not eat pears, and onions, cherries, bitter melon, mushrooms, seeds of the Rosaceae.
The old and young budgies can be distinguished
1, the young birds have a large number of spots distributed on the forehead, which gradually recede with age until they are all faded as adults. There will be an area of solid color on the head (yellow for green- and yellow-tinted ones, and white for blue, white, and gray); older birds have a mishmash of feathers in that area.
2. Juvenile birds have all-black eyes and look very cute; adults will gradually develop albino eyes (white eyeballs appear).
3, Juvenile birds have a wax-yellow beak with black at the tip (most birds), which gradually changes to gray-brown as an adult, although Paiute beak shells are orange-red throughout their lives; newly-adulted birds may remain wax-yellow, but change color some time after adulthood, and in some cases, once they are adults.
4. Young birds have bright eyes; older birds have bags around their eyes.
5. Young birds have neat feathers; old birds have fluffy, fat feathers.
6. Young birds are lively and naughty; old birds are slow.