Okay to give sweet potato raw?

[some-budgie-loves-me]

Or do I need to cook it? Orion doesn't like it cooked, but I'm not sure if it's okay to feed raw. Thanks!

[Emmilyy]

I honestly don't know for sure if it's *bad* raw, but i think it is from what i've heard, anyways. Everywhere and everyone always says to feed them *cooked*...

[some-budgie-loves-me]

Everywhere and everyone always says to feed them *cooked*...

Yeah, that's what I've read too...but then I've never heard that uncooked is harmful....so I just don't know. I gave Orion cooked zucchini and summer squash....and he hated both. Then I tried them raw, and he loves them. Since sweet potatoes are so nutritious, I'd like to be able to get him to eat them, but he doesn't like them cooked. Of course, if they're harmful raw, I don't want to feed that to him either!

[Emmilyy]

Yeah, i dont know, then. Hopefully someone else here will be able to tell us, because i've actually been wondering, too. Cookie doesn't like them cooked, either.

[xafsmom]

Raw sweet potatoes aren't harmful. People say to cook them because they're hard as rocks when raw and birds won't touch them. However.. raw sweet potatoes do have trypsin inhibitors, which, in people hinder digestion enzymes. I have not heard of that affecting birds, though.

[Angelsmum]

I grate some raw for mine and if we have it steamed they get that as well the next day.

[maggy]

I feed Alice Cooper, my budgie raw potato and have done so for nearlt eight years and she OK, never been sick in her entire life, so go for it. Dusty my BE2 won't eat it raw but loves it cooked, mashed with things in it, tomato sauce (home made), peas....that sort of thing.

[hollyhawkz]

Both our birds get raw organic sweet potato and or yam every day. We cut it thin enough but leave it in large pieces so they use it as foot food. Unless it's yam fries, they prefer raw.

"They asked me why the budgie's name was Alice, I said listen baby you really wouldn't understand."

AC lyrics for those of you that think I lost it... LOL

[some-budgie-loves-me]

Thanks! :)

[Angelsmum]

Give a lot of it and the poos go a really cute brown colour lol.