Budiges- Do you keep food available at all times or....

[Wolf]

Actually the base of this food is whole grains. Get some Kashi 7 grain pilaf and use that for the base along with some sweet potato and finely chopped broccoli. Start with these cooked and mixed together with a sprinkle of her seed mix on top of it as a top dressing until she is eating that and then start adding the cooked white beans and lentils and vegetables.

[xforeverloved]

Hm okay

My original plan was to do some lintils, brocolli, brown rice, and mix in some of her seeds/millet. Is that not a good starting gloop?

we are snowed in so theres no going any where till thursday. Was hoping I could start switching her over. As shes a little on the small side weight wise so Id like to give her something healthier asap! :]

[Pajarita]

Lentils, brown rice, barley, steel-cut oats (aka Irish oatmeal), flax seed and wild rice are all things you can find in any supermarket and which work very well for a first time gloop (mixed with small white beans, chopped broccoli and mixed veggies). Actually, nowadays, most of them also carry quinoa, millet and wheat kernels from Bob's Red Mill (at least, the ones around me do).

[Wolf]

It is a start but without the whole grains and the variety of vegetables it doesn't supply the nutrition that is required for the bird. Now if you top dress it with their seed mix it will suffice for a few days. The millet doesn't have much in the line of nutrients either, but they usually love it.You can make the items that you have and when you go to the store next you could get a bag of frozen mixed vegetable and the Kashi 7 grain pilaf and add the first stuff to that. Then you will only lightly top dress that gloop until the start eating the cooked food then you just feed gloop in the mornings with a couple of fresh vegetable and maybe a piece of fruit and them feed them their seed mix for dinner and then remove dinner after they go to sleep for the night.
There is no need to mix the seed mix with the gloop as the bird will just dig out the seeds and waste the rest, so just put the gloop in the feed dish and sprinkle the seed mix on top. They will eat the seed and then start on the gloop without throwing as much of it out. Less waste, less cleaning, less work.