The best care starts with the best food.

Hi, I’m Ayesha. I’ve been keeping parrots for over ten years now.
It started when I was a kid. My father loved animals, parrots most of all, and we had four budgies at home in a big cage. My mother used to feed them fruit and greens every morning. I think that’s where it all began for me.
I was always fascinated by parrots that could talk. So one day my father brought home a green Indian Ringneck. We named him Mian Mithu, but I always just called him Mian. Most people call their parrot Mithu. Mine was Mian.
He wasn’t tame, but he was friendly from day one. He’d sit with us at breakfast, eat off our plates, follow people around the house. He was just family.
Later we got a female for him. They took to each other, and after a while they bred.
Looking back, I still don’t know how they managed it. Breeding takes a proper system and a proper diet behind it, and they didn’t have either. All I was giving them was seed mix I bought from the market, and whatever normal food we ate at home. Sometimes I’d give them a bit of fruit or vegetables, but that was occasional. They were almost completely dependent on that seed mix. I didn’t know any better. I didn’t know what was right and what wasn’t.
After the breeding they never got the diet they needed, and that’s when it showed. Their feathers started falling. They lost weight badly, they just dried up. Their chest bone started showing through. And eventually I lost them both.
Then I kept more parrots after that, and the same thing kept happening. Mine were always weak and thin, while the birds I saw on YouTube and on the internet looked so healthy. I couldn’t work out why. I just kept doing what I’d always done, feeding the same market seed mix, because I genuinely didn’t know what else there was.
That’s the lesson I carry with me now. Love alone isn’t enough. Birds need proper food, vitamins, calcium, sunlight and rest. They can’t tell you when something is wrong, but their feathers, their eyes and their body show it, if you know what to look for.
A few years later we moved to a new place. Back then I still didn’t have many birds. Our neighbours there had a full setup, they were actually running it as a business, and one of the men there knew everything about birds. He’s still in touch with me and still teaches me things. He knows far more than I do and he’s been doing this for years. A lot of what I know came from him.
The rest I learned by doing it myself. I experimented, I watched what worked and what didn’t, and slowly it started making sense. What I used to feed my birds before and what I feed them now are two completely different things.
That’s when I really understood what the problem had been all along. The seed mix sold in our market is loose and open, sitting in sacks collecting dust and dirt. The seed quality is poor, there’s no way to know what’s actually in it, and no way to know how long it’s been sitting there. Sometimes it’s already gone bad. Sometimes there’s fungus in it.
I learned that the hardest way possible. I had a baby parrot whose crop jammed because of fungus, and I lost him too.
After that I stopped trusting market mix completely. Now I buy every ingredient separately, whatever my birds actually need, and I mix it at home myself. I sort it properly, clean it, make it dust free, satisfy myself that it’s right, and only then do I feed it to my birds.
That’s where Parrots Cuisine seed mix came from. I made mistakes that cost me my birds, and I don’t want other parrot lovers going through the same thing. If this is what keeps my flock healthy, other people’s birds deserve the same. It’s properly packed, made with high quality ingredients, and put together around what a parrot actually needs for its diet and metabolism, not just whatever is cheapest to fill a bag with. I feed it to my own birds. That’s the only standard I have for it.
I want to be honest about one thing though. I’m not an expert and I’ve never claimed to be. I’m someone who lost her birds to her own mistakes and is still learning, every single day. Everything I share comes from that, not from a textbook.
And I do share it. On the blog I write about diet, health, seasonal care, the important tips and the small everyday things nobody tells you when you’re starting out. It’s for beginners especially, so nobody has to learn the way I did. On social media I post about my own parrots and their daily life, so you can see the birds behind all of this.