The following is a list of what is good for, and what is not so good for your zebra finches
| Meats, fish and fowl (need to be cooked first) | Grains and Cereals |
| Hamburger Steak Chicken Turkey Hard Cheeses Eggs and egg yolk Peanuts Peanut butter * Yogurt |
Brown Rice Cereals (dry or cooked) Crackers Dried beans/peas (cooked) English Muffins Graham Crackers Lentils (cooked) Monkey biscuits Noodles Pasta enriched (cooked) Raw wheat germ Whole grain breads (try it toasted) |
| * Peanut butter should not be given to smaller birds such as finches, canaries or parakeets as the oils in the peanuts are difficult to digest | |
| Foods supplementary to a normal seed/millet bird food diet. Use in moderation and remove the seeds of those fruits in red as they could harm birds if eaten: | |
| Acacia blossom Alfalfa Apple Applesauce Apricot Banana Bean Beet Berries Blackberries Bok Choy Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cantelope Carrot Carrot Top Celery Celery Leaves Cherries Chickweed Chicory Collard greens Corn Corn on the cob Cucumbers Curly Kales Dandelion leaves (washed) Egg Plant (fruit only) Endive Grapes Grapefruit Green Peas Groundsel Hydroponic Spouted oats and barley |
Kale Kiwi fruit Lemon Lettuce (small amounts)Mango Mixed Vegetables Mustard greens Nectarine Orange or tangerine (no seeds) Papaya Parsley Peach Peas Pear Peppers Pineapple Plums Pumpkin Radish Raisins (soaked 24 hours) Rhubarb (Stalk only) Shepherds Purse Sow Thistle Spinach Squash Strawberries Sweet potatoes Swiss Chard Tomato Turnip Greens Watercress Winter Squash Yams Zucchini |
Note that this list is not exhaustive. However, it gives you a pretty good idea of
what you can and cannot feed to your birds. Remember that if we can eat it
ourselves, our birds should be able to eat it too!
