What can't cockatoos eat?

Answer 1

The safest way to feed a cockatoo, or any pet, is to buy prepared food from a supermarket (after checking on the quality of the brand) or from a reliable pet supplier. Discourage people from feeding snacks to your pet, as it isn't possible to be certain of the effects foods humans might consume could have upon various animals.

It goes without saying that you should be as vigilant with your pet as you would be with a small child, ensuring harmful substances such as medication, cigarette butts, alcohol, and so on, are not left within their reach.

Chocolate, coffee and milk may all prove toxic to a bird, as they can to cats, dogs and other pets. Avocados are particularly toxic to many animals, including cockatoos.

Bear in mind, too, that you shouldn't allow animals - including cockatoos - to 'kiss' people on the lips. This is for their protection: human saliva is not good for animals in general and birds in particular.

If you are putting out feed for wild cockatoos, use a container such as a hanging tray, well out of the reach of cats and dogs, and keep it clean by flushing with water daily. If you are living in a climate which supports wild cockatoos it will be warm enough to quickly dry the tray, which you can then use to hold good-quality wild bird seed (from pet shops and supermarkets; look particularly for striped sunflower seed, rather than the black variety).

Only put out sufficient food for a snack for a few birds, say one family, and do so no more than twice daily; you don't want to encourage the birds to become dependent. Don't worry if other birds also use the food; this interaction is good (and entertaining for observers). Cockatoos happily coexist with other breeds and birds work well together in the wild, forming their own interspecies alarm system to warn of danger.

It goes without saying that for any animals you feed, wild or domestic, it is extremely important that fresh clean water be made available at all times.

Answer 2

Umbrella cockatoos are a species of white parrot with a yellow crest. These outgoing birds enjoy human companionship and prefer to be around people all of the time. To care for an umbrella cockatoo you must have a large cage and a lot of patience, but the cockatoo's diet is just as important. Feeding your umbrella cockatoo the correct diet helps your pet bird live a long, healthy life.

1. Fruits

   • Umbrella cockatoos require a well-rounded diet, including fresh fruits. Only fresh fruit is suitable for umbrella cockatoos; a cockatoo's cage requires cleaning every day to remove left over fruit. All fruits are safe for umbrella cockatoos to eat. Providing a mix of fruit for your umbrella cockatoo is a good way to give your pet bird a wide range of vitamins; doing so also provides your umbrella cockatoo with a source of amusement and variety.

   Vegetables

   • Umbrella cockatoos enjoy a variety of vegetables; cockatoos require a mixture of vegetables in their diet to supply them with their nutritional requirements. The only vegetables umbrella cockatoos should never eat are raw onions, avocados and rhubarb. Feed your umbrella cockatoo green, leafy vegetables along with crunchier vegetables such as carrots and celery; they may enjoy using their beaks to bite crunchy vegetables. Limit spinach to avoid health problems as it prevents calcium absorption.

   Pellets

   • Umbrella cockatoos enjoy eating fruits and vegetables, but a diet of only these foods does not supply them with their required nutrients. Commercially purchased parrot feed pellets are a good base for an umbrella parrot's diet. Some parrot food pellets come in colored varieties. However, colored pellets often have added sugars. Organic parrot food pellets are the best choice for your umbrella parrot's diet. Find quality organic parrot food at organic pet food specialty stores.

   Foods to Avoid

   • Umbrella parrots can eat most of the things humans can; they enjoy having a wide variety of food. However, some foods are unsafe for parrots; these foods can make an umbrella cockatoo sick or even kill a cockatoo. Vegetables such as avocados rhubarb and raw onions are dangerous for umbrella cockatoos. As with dogs and cats, chocolate has the ability to kill umbrella cockatoos. Caffeine in any form is dangerous for umbrella cockatoos. Umbrella cockatoos also cannot consume alcohol.

Answer 3

Alcohol

Apple seeds

Apricot pits

Avocado

Bean (plant)

Brazil nuts

Caffeine

Cherry pits

Chocolate

Coffee

Eggplant

Foods with sugar/salt/greasy

Garlic

Lemon seeds

Nuts in shells

Onion

Orange seeds

Peach pits

Peanuts

Pear seeds

Plum pits

Potato (leaves and stems)

Rhubarb

Shellfish

Tea

Tobacco

Tomato

These are all toxic to them. :)

Answer 4

It was said that cockatoos disliked eating plants. But nowadays, the majority of them have adapted to eating it. Sorry, I'm not sure of other food =P

Answer 5

Lacoste sugar and salt

Answer 6

crackers