While we prefer pellets as the diet of choice for birds, you can add vegetables as a treat to the diet. Before the availability of pellets, we recommended adding vegetables to seed diets to improve the quality. The difficulty with this approach is the need to train your bird  to a wide range of foods in order to create a balanced diet. There are still diet combinations that are recommended by some individuals.

Vegetables you may feed as part of the diet

• Broccoli (head and leaves)
• Beet & turnip greens
• Carrots (root and tops)
• Cauliflower
• Collard greens
• Corn
• Cucumbers
• Radishes
• Endive
• Eggplant
• Green beans
• Kale
• Kohlrabi
• Mustard & dandelion greens
• Parsley
• Potatoes (red and cooked)
• Squash (peeled and steamed)
• Sugar snap or snow peas
• Sweet potatoes (cooked)
• Sweet, red, green, and other types of peppers
• Swiss Chard
• Red beets (peeled)
• Romaine or green/red leaf lettuce
• Tomato
• Turnips
 

Items you should not feed