my bird does threw a hole tin of bird seed a day i want him 2 cut down on the food please help me

my bird eats soo much a day he is a cokitel & he iznt every fat but he is costing me heaps in bird food he shares a cage with a bugie & he doesnt have much time 2 eat beause the cokietel is @ the food bowl 4 the hole day can u pplease tell me how 2 fix this problem

5) cockatiel diet - are fruit and vegetables necessary ?

A cockatiel diet must be supplemented with fresh fruit and vegetables on a daily basis. An all seed diet often results in an unhealthy or overweight cockatiel.

Try the following:

FRUIT:

apple, grape, guava, kiwi fruit, mango, melon, nectarine, orange, peach, pear, pomegranate, plum, strawberry, tangerine, watermelon

VEGETABLES:

bok choy, broccoli, carrot (chopped or grated), celery, chard, lettuce (but small amounts of lettuce and not too often as not a lot of goodness), peas, silverbeet, spinach, sweetcorn, watercress, zucchini.

Favorites with cockatiels tend to be apple, egg, pasta, peas, rice, silverbeet, spinach, sweetcorn.

Note that the fruit and vegetables should be provided:

thoroughly washed

in small pieces

at room temperature

unpeeled

free of cores, stones, pits or pips

raw (some cockatiels prefer certain vegetables cooked eg peas and

sweetcorn - use your judgment here)

fresh (obviously this will be the most nutritious for your cockatiel but

you can use frozen or canned)

Be aware that your cockatiel's droppings may be runnier than usual with an intake of fruit and vegetables.