Harrisons bird bread mix

[LJ4RockPebbler]

I saw online that Harrisons offer a bird bread mix and wondered if anyone had tried making it for their bird or had any thoughts on a safe recipe that I could do myself. Thanks

[Wolf]

I have never used this product, but I know that Pajarita has a birdie bread recipe and think that it has been posted once or twice.

[ParrotsForLife]

Yeah Northern parrots sell the Harrisons birdie bread mix.

[Pajarita]

Somebody once gave me a few bags of it when it first came out and I tried it just to see if my birds would eat it - they didn't. I did as an experiment, I wasn't planning on using it because it has soy and it's not really bread but more like a muffin mix (it has not yeast but baking powder which adds no nutrition to it whatsoever). My birds don't like the 'muffin' consistency, they like their birdy bread which comes out heavy and dense because of the yeast... things made with baking powder come out light and fluffy and they are not fans of this texture, apparently. But they would eat NuttyAlmond and HealthNut bread by Arnold's, too.

My birdy bread is made in a bread machine (best investment ever when you have birds!) and it just follows loosely the whole grain recipe the bread machines always bring only I don't use only whole wheat flour, I also use coarse corn meal, steel cut oats, etc as well as veggies, fruits, seeds and nuts in it. The only trick to it is to get the degree of moisture within a certain range so it cooks without dry pockets in it because, aside from that, the birds don't really care if it comes out too moist or too dry or too anything... They like it any which way they can get it

[LJ4RockPebbler]

Would appreciate it, if you send us your bread and gloop recipes. Thank you.

[liz]

Pajarita, you told me not to give them Health Nut Bread. They love it as much as I do.

[Pajarita]

I don't remember telling you not to give them whole grain bread and I doubt I told you not to give them HealthNut because it's one bread that I tell people they can use for their birds in a pinch, Liz.

Rockpebbler, there are recipes of both already in the diet section, I'm sure. Maybe we should make stickies out of them...