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parakeet diet

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Question
How do you prepare these fruit/veggie mixes? Do I mince/blend it up real small? Do you mix it in with the seeds? How do pellets differ from food?  

Answer
Hello Stephen,

The fruits/vegetables just cut them into chunks, tiny chunks will only rot really fast or go brown to soon, 1 inch sized chunks are great they can and will be able to eat them at this size. pellets differ from seeds because a pellet is nothing but compact nuetricen full of fruit/vegetables protine /vitamins/minarals and more weather seeds are just... fatty seeds with powdered vitamins added that comes off anyway. Go to www.kaytee.com and check uot some of there pellets and see for yourself whats nreally in them.. there are many more brands avalible its just thats the only one i believe has a website.

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