By Cheryl Lake

Lactobacillus Acidophilus is a source of a viable live, naturally occurring micro-organism, which is found predominantly in the digestive system of man and all warm-blooded animals.

Stress conditions such as new arrivals, molting, breeding, feeding young, growth, preparation for flight, illness, and injury, along with contaminated feed and water, food soured in the crop, chlorinated water, antifungal, and antibiotic therapy, can all cause a great imbalance of various types of micro-organisms in the crop and intestine tract, leaving birds susceptible to digestive problems.

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My parrots love eating any kind of fruit or juice, nuts or seeds, but aren’t interested in any other kind of food I think is good for them. How can I change this?

This article is written with the understanding that you are providing a high quality formulated parrot pellet to your bird. Seed diets are ok but many nutrients are lost from “vitamin fortified” seed diets when the hull of the seed (where the vitamin fortification is applied) is discarded by the bird. We advocate a multi-vitamin supplement to ensure optimal nutrition with a seed diet. (more…)