Gloop II

[Navre]

The vet advised against serving food warmer than room temperature, but I also agree that once in a while is not going to be a problem.

[seagoatdeb]

I let my birds have warm occasionally, they are very excited about it because they know it is some of what I am eating. it is room temperature long before they are done, so I dont worry about it.

[shiraartain]

Well, better safe than sorry.

I also agree that every once in a while probably isn't bad...better than having them go hungry for hours.

Sometimes Fajr will go for our food and we'll have to suffer through the bite because he would have burned his tongue on it. (Otherwise we direct him away from the food, but without urgency to the extent of letting him bite us, unless it's something really bad)

[Pajarita]

I don't normally give them warm food but I do it under special circumstances as a way of trying to make them feel better like if a bird is sick, too skinny or sad because it has lost its mate or is stressed out because he is new to the house... that kind of thing. It's just a little trick that one needs to keep in mind for special situations.

[seagoatdeb]

I give them sweet potatoes, and squash and things like that that I have cooked up for me, so it is warm and they love to eat it with me. Gaugan knows and Sunny is learning which things I share with them....lol...have had Sunny land on my plate more than once.

[JessiMuse]

I wonder... If you are to dehydrate some of the ingredients (basically the softer, wetter ingredients) and made a bit of an "anti-gloop" like mix (basically the dry version of gloop), would a bird still eat it? I guess at that point though, it's not really gloop. just like a mimic seed mix.

[Pajarita]

Parrots love crunchy so they might eat it but one of the good things about gloop is the high content of water in it which resembles the levels of moisture in their wild diet so dehydrating it would be counterproductive. And, it's not really needed, if you ask me, because it freezes really well.