Nuts

[liz]

I have been reading nutritional value on nuts. it seems that brazil and cashew are the lowest in protein. I also find out that Rambo won't touch a brazil nut and myrtle does not like cashews.

[Wolf]

I would switch the nuts and see if Rambo will eat the cashews and Myrtle the brazil nuts.

[liz]

I would switch the nuts and see if Rambo will eat the cashews and Myrtle the brazil nuts.

LOL I give them the ones they like.

[seagoatdeb]

I would switch the nuts and see if Rambo will eat the cashews and Myrtle the brazil nuts.

LOL I give them the ones they like.

My pois both love Wanuts and of course they cant open them themselves, but I have done some research and found out that Pois and also other African birds often need more Selenium than other parrots. Africas soil is rich with Selenium, and when I researched wanuts they are high in Selenium so that may be why they like them so much. I think feeding them what they like for nuts is wise because it could be adressing their dietary needs.

[sarwanov]

It depends on the Nut and the quality of the Nut.

[Wolf]

It depends on the Nut and the quality of the Nut.

It really does ! I buy human grade unsalted almonds for my birds as they are their favorite nut and even there I sot through to remove the lessor quality nuts and then there are some of them that my birds will pick up and throw away. I have saved these nuts and placed them in a separate dish and offered them to the birds and none of them will touch this dish of nuts although I don't see anything wrong with them. I have even cut them into slivers and examined them and still can't see anything wrong with them. The end result is that I trust my birds and toss these nuts into the compost. Expensive and wasteful, but what else to do with them?

[liz]

I have to use shelled walnuts. I stock up on almonds in this season. it is the only time I can buy them in the shell and they can open their own almonds.

[seagoatdeb]

Mine can open almonds and pistachios and I buy almonds pistachios and walnuts in the shell high grade. I eat a mostly raw food diet so I order raw nuts from a whole sale raw place. So my birds also eat sprouted nuts and seeds that I prepare for my meals, that includes sprouted chashews, almonds, hazlenuts, hemp seeds, chia seeds and oat groats and buckwheat.