Diet

[BabyBird]

Could everyone list what they feed there birds and what time of day you feed them. Kinda like a schedule.

So morning:

Afternoon:

Night:

Please I would love this information it would help me a lot

[Wolf]

I have 7 birds of five species ranging from parrotlets to an amazon. I feed them all a fresh raw fruit, vegetable and leafy green and gloop in the morning for breakfast and for all day munching and then I feed them a good quality seed mix and a nut or two , depending on the size of the bird, for their dinner in the evening just before dusk.

[BabyBird]

I have 7 birds of five species ranging from parrotlets to an amazon. I feed them all a fresh raw fruit, vegetable and leafy green and gloop in the morning for breakfast and for all day munching and then I feed them a good quality seed mix and a nut or two , depending on the size of the bird, for their dinner in the evening just before dusk.

Thankyou

Is gloop rolled organic oats cooked in water and made like a porridge consistency?? With other things added like nuts and seeds??

[Wolf]

No it is not. If you remember my first answer in this viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14913 I gave you a list of whole grains that you could use as a base for making your own gloop. If you take that list and go to the store and pick up a bag of frozen mixed vegetables and add as much of them as you have of the whole grains and then add some fully cooked white beans and lentils, probably about half the amount of the whole grains then you would have a good basic gloop recipe. Lets see if you have 3 cups total of the half cooked whole grains and you add 3 cups of the frozen mixed vegetables, after you thaw them and then add 1 1/2 cups of fully cooked white beans and lentils that would work for a basic gloop recipe. You would serve this mixture at room temperature. You can make larger batches of this gloop and divide it in plastic baggies into daily portions and freeze the excess and just pull out one bag each night before you go to bed and let it thaw out and feed it to your bird in the morning.

[Chantilly]

Tilly gets :
Morning: 1tbs of fruits, 1tbs of vegies and a piece of 100%dried apricot
Afternoon: 1tbs of pellets, 1tbs of seed
It gets switched at lunch, im still working on her diet though. I want to get rowdybush pellets instead of vetafarm.

[BabyBird]

No it is not. If you remember my first answer in this http://www.theparrotforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14913 I gave you a list of whole grains that you could use as a base for making your own gloop. If you take that list and go to the store and pick up a bag of frozen mixed vegetables and add as much of them as you have of the whole grains and then add some fully cooked white beans and lentils, probably about half the amount of the whole grains then you would have a good basic gloop recipe. Lets see if you have 3 cups total of the half cooked whole grains and you add 3 cups of the frozen mixed vegetables, after you thaw them and then add 1 1/2 cups of fully cooked white beans and lentils that would work for a basic gloop recipe. You would serve this mixture at room temperature. You can make larger batches of this gloop and divide it in plastic baggies into daily portions and freeze the excess and just pull out one bag each night before you go to bed and let it thaw out and feed it to your bird in the morning.

Thankyou I will try that I gotta make a shopping list now

[BabyBird]

Tilly gets :
Morning: 1tbs of fruits, 1tbs of vegies and a piece of 100%dried apricot
Afternoon: 1tbs of pellets, 1tbs of seed
It gets switched at lunch, im still working on her diet though. I want to get rowdybush pellets instead of vetafarm.

thanks. That seems like a good diet.. I mix Sidney's up a bit, so maybe I'll try that.

[Wolf]

While what I gave you is a very basic recipe for gloop, please note that once your bird is eating it that you can also take and add other veggies to it so as to provide them with a different taste treat. for example I have been splitting mine into two batches and adding sweet potato to half of it. I have been trying to put it in the gloop by mashing it and mixing it in and most recently by cutting it into little pieces and mixing them in. I have also been adding some acorn squash in as another variation . It is a very good way to introduce them to other veggies that they are not used to eating. I also rotate what fruits and vegetables and leafy greens that I give them raw in the mornings along with the gloop.

[BabyBird]

While what I gave you is a very basic recipe for gloop, please note that once your bird is eating it that you can also take and add other veggies to it so as to provide them with a different taste treat. for example I have been splitting mine into two batches and adding sweet potato to half of it. I have been trying to put it in the gloop by mashing it and mixing it in and most recently by cutting it into little pieces and mixing them in. I have also been adding some acorn squash in as another variation . It is a very good way to introduce them to other veggies that they are not used to eating. I also rotate what fruits and vegetables and leafy greens that I give them raw in the mornings along with the gloop.

Sounds like a very good diet, you treat your birds well and I respect that, thankyou.

[Pajarita]

Tilly gets :
Morning: 1tbs of fruits, 1tbs of vegies and a piece of 100%dried apricot
Afternoon: 1tbs of pellets, 1tbs of seed
It gets switched at lunch, im still working on her diet though. I want to get rowdybush pellets instead of vetafarm.

Please make sure the apricot is organic and naturally dried - the regular dry apricot is treated with lots of chemicals (it's on the dirtiest list) and sulfites to preserve color and texture so they are not good for parrots, the 'good' one looks like crap but they are healthier.

These are 'regular' apricots:http://www.puritan.com/apricots-952/turkish-apricots-037087

These are the 'good' ones: http://www.puritan.com/apricots-952/org ... ots-037088

If you look in the diet section, you will find three different recipes of gloop.