Tasty parrot treats to tell your pet you love them.
If you've been keeping parrots for a while, you know our feathered pets would sell their soul for their favourite snacks. Why not leverage that? Use parrot treats during training, to strengthen your bond and to reward desirable behaviour: your bird definitely won't forget it. Treats add variety to your feathered pet's daily meals and can help prevent boredom, especially if you combine them with one of our many fun foraging toys. Some birds can spend hours trying to pry their favourite nut from a foraging wheel or extracting every last morsel from a well-made foraging box. Even a simple dangling seed stick is a great addition to its regular toy collection.
Not sure what your parrot likes yet? Try choosing between the following treats for parrots, many of which offer health benefits such as added vitamins and minerals for healthy skin, feathers, eyes and strong bones.
- Hanging seed sticks: A classic, and for good reason. The seeds are firmly stuck to the treat, keeping your bird busy for hours trying to get to every last seed.
- Natural millet sprays: A high-quality and natural treat that small seed eaters especially will go nuts for. Budgies, canaries, finches, cockatiels and other parrots love it!
- Loose nuts and seeds: Probably the "highest-value" treats and a big birdie favourite. If you use these as parrot training treats, your results may just skyrocket.
- Dried fruit: From banana chips to coco flakes, these dried fruits are free of added sugars and full of healthy (micro)nutrients.
- Dried veggies: Colourful dried chiles, carrot flakes and more may just be the healthiest parrot treat option of them all. Perfect to mix into your bird's regular food.
- Fruit jelly cups: Here's something a little different! Surprise your bird with these colourful mini jelly cups in a range of fruity flavours.
- Prepared treats: From the popular Nutri-Berry to birdie bread and baked fruity treats, there really is something out there for every parrot.
To make presenting treats fun and easy, we also carry a range of different parrot treat holders. And by the way, if your parrot isn't interested in the snacks you've bought it, don't give up right away. Our birds can be a little singular when it comes to their diet, but it's important to get them to give new foods a try. Presenting unfamiliar treats in their regular food bowl or mixing them into their daily food will convince most to have a taste.
Please remember: these treats for parrots don't constitute a complete diet for your bird. As discussed in our full article on parrot diet, your feathered pet should be eating a healthy parrot pellet as a staple, supplemented with plenty of fresh produce and other snacks for added variety. Treats are meant to help you form a bond, reward good training performance, encourage desirable behaviours and add enrichment. They add a fun element and give your bird something new to try.
Aside from these tasty treats for parrots, we carry everything related to parrot food and feeding, from high-quality staple foods and supplements to sturdy food and water bowls. Finish off your parrot shopping list with our range of fun toys, perches and other accessories. Parrot Essentials has everything you'll ever need for a happy and healthy parrot, with FREE Delivery on orders over £39, plus 30-day money-back guarantee (T&Cs apply).
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