Can your pet bird eat an avocado?

Answer 1

NO ABSOLUTLEY NOT NONONONO DONT FEED IT AVOCADO BECALUSE IT WILL KILL IT!!!! however, you can feed it potato chips in very small amounts like a crumb but not regularly and they perfer millet over most things!

Answer 2

A brief look at the evolution of parakeet gives us our answer.

Most birds arrived on the scene around 150 million years ago however parakeets were late developers and consequently they were something of a 'rush job'.

In order to make up for lost time the parakeet had to choose which adaptations it could take on board and which to leave behind to save time. (An eagle for example has pretty much all available adaptations, hence why it is known as 'Dat Nang' Bird in Tibetan - roughly translates as 'boss of the sky').

One of the major adaptations the parakeet chose to leave out was the cocoa duct (known colloquially as the chocolate hole) which is most commonly found (in the U.K) in the duck family. It made this choice mainly because chocolate is less common in the tropical climates in which the parakeet originates from because it goes all melty too quickly so consequently the duct would be rarely useful.

Despite the popular myth, the parakeet can in fact eat chocolate if its beak is transplanted with that of a mallard. This procedure, though painful has about a 75% success rate and has in recent times become much more popular within the parakeet community due to certain high profile (celebrity if you will) parakeets having the operation done.

Answer 3

Yes. The skin and pit are poisonous. By feeding a parrot avocado you are taking the risk of getting some of the lethal toxins from the skin or pit into the meat of the avocado and thereby killing your bird. In other words: Just don't.

Answer 4

They can eat avocado, but some kind of parrots don't like the taste of avocado

Hi, actually avocado is toxic to parrots and WILL kill them if they eat it.