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Post by eunoia93 on Jun 19, 2015 16:06:45 GMT -5
I occasionally have different kinds of insects such as mealworms, crickets, and butterworms that I gut load with veggies and feed my leopard gecko. Can quaker parrots also eat these? If so, at what age is it safe to feed them these things and also how much is ok?
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Post by easttex on Jun 20, 2015 5:31:28 GMT -5
Almost all birds feed insects to their babies, but I think it is rare for them to be a part of an adult Quaker's diet. You could offer a little and see what happens.
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Post by quakerfriend on Jun 20, 2015 20:34:07 GMT -5
I've heard of some birds loving mealworms! Unfortunately they needed a turtle as a model of what to do with them but it's always worth a shot haha.
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Post by aaron on Jun 20, 2015 21:03:30 GMT -5
Cupcake ate an ant in front of me once. I don't even know if she realized that she ate a living creature or not. That's the extent of it though.  One thing I will say is that I know that crickets can carry a certain fungus, particularly when they are bred and kept in a particularly warm climate, and that fungus can do things like sicken and ultimately kill a praying mantis if they consume the crickets that carry it. So, it might be fine with an avian, but it might not. I would stay away from crickets. The others might be fine, but I really don't know. |
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