What is the proper amount of seeds to feed my African Grey every day

Of course I am also feeding him his fresh fruits and veggies every day as well. I'm wondering what the reccommended amount of seeds is for him daily though. 1/2 a cup? 1 cup?

I don't feed mine the commercial seed mix any at all really. If you are feeding pellets, you are giving him a balanced seed diet. Pellets are partially made from seed.

Seed is not really a huge percentage of a Grey's diet in the wild. The reason most people tend to feed seed is because when the boats containing the first wild-caught birds first arrived here, they were being fed seed. Of course they do eat some seed, but on the boats, seed is dry and doesn't spoil. It was an economical and convenient way to feed the birds during shipping.

The seeds I feed my birds are the healthy ones: Flax, hemp and rape seed. These 3 are the winners in the seed world.

My Greys don't even like sunflower seed.a standard part of your run of the mill seed mix.

For more information, please see these links:

http://www.holisticbirds.com/hbn02/febma.

http://www.bharatbhasha.com/pets.php/468.

Please lean heavily on fresh or frozen vegetables (heavy on the dark orange and dark green), rice, pasta, beans, yams or sweet potatoes, nuts, and occasionally you can give them scrambled eggs, yogurt, a piece of chicken, and cheese as a treat.

Fruit is good a few times a week. Easy on the grapes..apple is good, as well as cranberry.

think about purchasing some flax seed oil from a health food store and a few drops on his veggies helps a lot.