Pet bird nutrition — risks of seed-based and selective diets (fat, calcium/vitamin A deficiency)
Verbatim first-hand facts extracted from the Merck Veterinary Manual (first-hand saved source pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_bird_management.txt). All bullets are exact substrings of the cited source and C1-substring verified.
Verbatim nutrition facts (C1 substrings of source_file)
> Before the availability of pelleted diets, most birds were fed a seed mix that was high in fat and deficient in calcium, vitamin A, and other nutrients.
> The two most common reasons for malnutrition in companion birds are feeding of diets that allow the birds to choose what they want to eat (either mixtures of seeds/nut and pellets or table foods the owner considers healthy) and feeding of pure seed or seed-based diets.
Source: pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_bird_management.txt (first-hand Merck Veterinary Manual text).
Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)
Before the availability of pelleted diets, most birds were fed a seed mix that was high in fat and deficient in calcium, vitamin A, and other nutrients.The two most common reasons for malnutrition in companion birds are feeding of diets that allow the birds to choose what they want to eat (either mixtures of seeds/nut and pellets or table foods the owner considers healthy) and feeding of pure seed or seed-based diets.