Can parrots eat honey?

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With caution
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Only pasteurized honey, rarely, in tiny amounts. Raw honey can carry botulism spores, and either way it's pure sugar.

Keeper's noteHoney's main legitimate use is as a vanishingly thin glue for medication or a once-in-a-blue-moon treat stick. Check labels: many 'honey treat' bird products are sugar bombs best left on the shelf.

What to watch out for with honey

Raw honey can harbor Clostridium botulinum spores โ€” the same reason it's banned for human infants โ€” and avian botulism is devastating. Pasteurized honey removes that risk but remains concentrated sugar with no nutritional case for a parrot.

How to serve it

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