HEALTHY BIRD PROJECT

First, to identify the correct combination of foods that makes up balanced nutrition - a balanced food plan - for all parrot and finch species. And, second, by accomplishing the first item, we then move forward in our work to end avian malnutrition, and unbalanced nutrition, the leading cause of illness disease and early death of parrots and finches... We will attain the above two goals by gaining valuable information on how feeding Leslie Moran's ‘Balanced Exotic Avian Maintenance Diet Food Plan' helps improve the health and individual wellbeing of parrots and finches. This food plan uses only real, natural, wholesome foods... An abundance of nutritional research has been done on chickens, but very little has been done on parrots or other exotic avian species. According to the FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) in their 2005 technical report, ‘Production and processing of small seeds for birds', it explains that when feeding caged and companion birds,..