Ok, my family flock has grown quite big as we are planning on 2 new additions. Zuess is a redwing macaw and Kaida is a triton cockatoo. both will be joining our family next week. Peachy and Cheeky will be the older sisters and they are both cockatiels. They are all on a zupreme pellet diet with a small amount of mixed seed. I know it is going to get very expensive keeping them feed with their fresh vegetables and fruits, etc. So, I’m hoping I can once every 2 weeks or at the beginning of each month precook a batch of food and freeze it for the month. I would like to put together a recipe that ALL of my birds can share. does anyone have a good recipe?
oops I meant zuess is a greenwing macaw lol. But, he is soooo red!! lol
I have an Amazon, and I use Harrison’s pelleted food with VERY LITTLE supplementation.He gets NO mixed seed. I give him a bit of apple once a week as a “treat” and some orange veggies like cooked yams or pumpkin when in season, or a small amount of cooked chicken or steak each week.
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Most pellet food manufactures claim that no supplementation is necessary, but for variety you can make homemade corn bread or use a mix and add cooked beans, whole grains and fruits and veggies. You can make as many as you like with all kinds of different goodies. This should freeze well. Have a tweet year.
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Cowboy Dallas’ Home Made Nutriberries
1 cup of dried fruit
2 tablespoon of coconut
1/2 cup of uncooked oatmeal
1/2 cup of unsulphured raisins
1/4 cup of seeds and /or crushed nuts
2 Tablespoons of peanut butter
I blend all the dry ingredients in a food processor until chopped
finely.
Place mixture into a bowl , add peanut butter. Mix
very well and the mixture is sticky. If mixture seems too dry add 1/2 c
of
applesauce. Roll mixture into small 1/2 inch ball and place on a cookie
sheet. Bake at 325 for about 18 minutes. Cool and serve.
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Potato Salad:
I never feed my guys raw potatoes…I think I heard they were not good for
them. They love cooked potatoes. If I make potato salad I have to save out
chunks of potato, celery and hard boiled egg and use yogurt.
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Here’s a good veggie/rice/egg mix for a starter.
2 small yellow squash(the kind that look like small yellow zuchinni)
1 medium beet
3-5 long green beans
small handful of broccoli
small handful of cauliflower
1/4 cup of corn(aprox)
1/4 cup of peas(aprox)
2 cups brown rice
5 or so leaves of spinach
4-5 small baby carrots
1 hardboiled egg
Toss everything but the egg into a pan and boil for about 10 minutes, then
turn off the heat, cover, and let it sit for about 30 minutes to absorb
water. There might be a bit of water left over, but that’s fine. If you have
a lot of excess water either let it sit longer or drain the water off. Once
that’s done, dump it all in the blender(egg too) and blend until
a ‘pasty’ type mixture. Spoon into either ice cube trays or a small glass
brownie pan and let cool.
This should be a red color when it’s done, so it WILL make your birds’ poop
bright red. Blame the beets, and keep the birds off of white carpet.
If your birds will eat these foods mixed together raw, by all means do it that
way.
Mine prefer warm mush.
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Spicy Mush:
Unfortunately I don’t measure, I just cut up and add, so mix and match at
will! Adjust sizes for the size of your bird and the amount you want to make.
This is SPICY! So those of you who have birds who like hot peppers…they’ll
probably LOVE this! – (not for birds with liver problems).
First, get some brown rice(NOT WHITE!), and start is soaking/boiling while
you’re doing the veggies.
Next cut up:
1 bunch of collard greens
1 bunch of kale
1 bunch of mustard greens
1 bunch of radishes(tops and roots)
4 red chili peppers(fresh, not dried)
4 green chili peppers(fresh, not dried)
1-2 eggs.
1 small zucchini
1 small yellow squash
5-10 baby carrots
1 sweet potato
10-20 green beans
1-2 beets
1 small can of corn, or “scraped off the cob” equivalent
3-4 cloves of peeled garlic
10-15 peas in the pod
You can also add broccoli, cauliflower, and spinach, but I didn’t as one of my
birds has potential kidney problems, and those three are recommended not to
be used in foods as they could aggravate his condition.
Anyway, once the rice has gotten soft, pile everything else into the boiling
mix, turn it down to low and let it simmer.
Be sure to stir occasionally, or stuff will burn on the bottom of the pan.
Boil/simmer until most of the water is absorbed, then remove from heat.
I let mine sit and cool because I’m clumsy and didn’t want to risk spilling
burning veggie mix on my hand, but if you’re not as clumsy as me, skip that step.
Spoon on as much of the mix as will safely
fit in the blender and turn that puppy on to liquefy.
Once it’s liquefied, it should end up looking something like split pea soup.
It smells really fresh, and tastes really fresh…then the spice hits!
Many birds are more willing to try warm mixtures, but before you feed them,
make sure there are no hot spots and that it’s not hot enough to cause crop
burns.
This makes a LOT of mix, I’m not kidding; I can feed 7 birds on this for 4-5
months before having to make a new batch, so be sure you have room in your
freezer beforehand. I imagine this would last a single tiel or budgie a LONG
time…that is, if you don’t eat it first. This mix tastes VERY good to
humans and birds!
Again, if your bird will eat these things mixed together raw, go ahead and
feed it raw.
My picky birds prefer their veggies in a warm mushy mixture.
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Amazing Amazon Birdie Bread
4 jars of organic baby food (2 jars of sweet potatoes for Vitamin A)
1 18 oz jar of Skippy or Jiff Peanut butter (chunky)
1 8 oz package…second nature eggs (Kodiak has a cholesterol problem so I use
about 6 extra large egg whites or egg substitute)
3 bananas (mashed)
2 cup carrots (grated)
1 cup cornmeal
1 1/2 cup rolled grain varieties
1 1/2 cup crushed grain varieties
These last two items can be purchased at health food stores or bulk section of
your grocery store
Mix the eggs and peanut butter thoroughly. Add in the baby food and mix. Add
the bananas and carrots and mix. Now mix in all the dry ingredients.
There is no baking powder or baking soda so the bread does not rise. You can
fill the pan as it is not going to go much higher. Put the mixture in an un-
greased baking dish for 45 – 60minutes. Test with a toothpick to be certain
the bread is baked through. It is important that the bread bake all the way
through. Let cool and then cut into squares. Freeze in bags until needed. It
should be removed for the cage after 4 hours.
I do not add salt, sugar, baking soda, or baking powder as there is no need to
use them and they add nothing to the bird’s diet. There is enough oil and salt
in the peanut butter so there is no need to add it for flavoring or grease the
pan. You can add wheat germ mixed with the grains if you want. You will notice
also that this recipe does not have any flour. The crushed grains and rolled
grains plus the cornmeal soak up the moisture.
I generally bake at 350 degrees between 1/2 hour to an hour depending on
what I have added or subtracted to the recipe. Sometimes I will throw in a
couple of apples in addition to everything else so that makes it more moist
and requires longer baking. You can generally hide a veggie or two that they
wouldn’t normally eat in this bread as well.
Hope your birds like it as much as The Amazing Amazons do.
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CINNAMON OATS (warm meal)
Cook some oats in water (rice water if you have it, see below) with a tiny bit of
cinnamon, a little dessicated coconut, finely chopped carrot and unsulphured
raisins, and then add a mix of any of the following ingredients, choosing those
which go better together:-
slivered almonds, chopped walnuts, chopped apple, chopped organic dried
figs, chopped organic dates, mashed banana, sesame seeds, chopped boiled
egg yolk, chopped fresh apricot, chopped steamed pumpkin. Add a drop of
pumpkin seed oil or flaxseed oil (be careful to add only a drop, and only if they
haven’t already had some that day). Serve while still warm. This is also
appreciated by birds who are not feeling too well – in this case, also add a tiny
pinch of wheatgrass or barleygrass powder (if they haven’t already had it that
day). This is made more nutritious if you have cooked plain organic rice in
plain water without salt that day and save the water it was cooked in to use in
this recipe.
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MIXED RICE AND LENTILS
Cook together organic mixed rices, soaked lentils, a tiny pinch of turmeric, a
tiny sliver of fresh ginger, a pinch of coconut and a few cumin seeds. Towards
the end of the cooking period, add some finely chopped carrot or pumpkin
and some peas (fresh or frozen). Turn off the heat (drain off any excess
liquid), add a little finely chopped fresh coriander (cilantro), and some finely
chopped dark leafy greens. Serve warm. Some sprouted grains and seeds
may be added to this when serving.
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