Can cockatiels eat eggs?

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Eggs · for cockatiels

Yes — cooked egg is excellent protein for parrots, especially during molt, and crushed cooked shell adds calcium. Serve it plain and fully cooked.

What it means for cockatiels

This is one of the foods we especially recommend for cockatiels: it plays to what cockatiels need most — vitamin-A-rich vegetables like sweet potato and carrot. Offer a small, cockatiel-sized portion.

The full picture on eggs

Egg is the gold-standard protein boost for molting, breeding, or recovering birds — complete amino acids plus vitamin B12 and choline. Yes, it's a bird eating egg; nutritionally it's no different from the insects and occasional eggs wild parrots opportunistically eat. The rules: fully cooked (raw egg risks salmonella), and completely plain.

See the full eggs guide or the Cockatiel diet guide for more.

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