Best Cockatiel &amp; Cockatoo Food

Essential Nutrition

An especially healthy pellet formulated to provide mid-sized birds with the nutrition and essential nutrients they need, and this is a fantastic foundation for any cockatoo or cockatiel diet.

Corn, soybean meal, millet, oats, barley, and wheat are the first 6 ingredients. Pellet formula. Includes all of the vitamins and minerals cockatiels and cockatoos need. Promotes immune system health.

Safflower Gold, Natural Blend

A solid all-around formula, but it represents 80% of your bird’s diet. Be sure to supplement it with seeds and fruit.

Best Bang for the Buck

Higgins

All-natural Mix

A surprisingly healthy mix for the price, which excludes commonly added junk foods; and instead uses tastier and more nourishing bits of bananas, coconut, and blueberries that your bird will love.

Safflower, white millet, oats, red milo, wheat, and canary seeds are the first 6 ingredients. No high-fat sunflower seeds or peanuts. No artificial colors or preservatives. Affordable.

FruitBlend Flavor, Medium Birds

It would be convenient if this mix of cockatiel food was available in larger bag sizes.

ZuPreem

Loaded with Fruit

A vitamin-enriched and overall great deal for picky birdies, ZuPreem’s fruity diet of fresh and flavorful fruits is all but guaranteed to get your cockatiel or cockatoo to clean out its food bowl every day.

Corn, soybean meal, and wheat are the first 3 ingredients. Features high levels of tasty oranges, apples, grapes, and bananas. Balanced diet. Colorful pellet formula. Easy to digest.

While cockatiels and cockatoos are going to love this sweet meal, it includes a lot of sugar.

Kaytee

Fiesta, Cockatiel Food

For Healthy Digestion

Inexpensive, easy to digest, and a delicious range of tidbits including carrots, cantaloupe seed, and papaya; Fiesta’s cockatiel mix is sure to keep your bird buddy eager to dig out their favorites during every meal.

Canary seed, white millet, safflower seed, oats, sunflower seed, and corn are the first 6 ingredients. Affordable. Available in 3 sizes. Contains a wide mix of yummy ingredients to excite your cockatiel.

Cockatiel with sunflower seeds

This otherwise tasty cockatiel mix includes 4 different artificial food colorings.

Volkman

A Mix Cockatiels Love

Made from garden-fresh seeds, grains, and fruits; the fragrant orange oil will grab your cockatoo's or cockatiel’s attention, and its appetizingly wholesome ingredients will keep them coming back for more.

Millet, safflower seed, canary seed, oats, buckwheat, and sunflower seed are the first 6 ingredients. Flavorful pieces like papaya, peppers, and coconut. Relatively low-ingredient mix.