The Best Pellets?!

[Chantilly]

Thankyou, I would like to get Tilly some pellets, even just used once a month. Cooking, well that is where I suck. I absolutely stink at cooking, but I do try things when I find a decent recipie that is organic. The other day I gave Tilly poridge with banana as suggested by BabyBird. Tilly wasnt really intrested at all, because all she wants is her Mango. She loved her fruit&veg and looks foward to it even. If I put a dish with Mango, Apple, Banana, Zucchini, Green beens and Sunflower Greens and a dish with seed and pellets in her cage, she will go to the fruit and veg. So that is a good thing , but she will still pick on seed and pellets througout the day.
Im still very unsure about gloop. It seems complicated, and I dont actually know specifically what I am looking for. And I am still not absolutely certain on how it is to be cooked ( Yup, I am slow!). I am still searching around, but I find it confusing in comparison to some other recipies you find.. Could you possibly help with that at all?.. please?

[Pajarita]

Of course we will help! What is it, exactly, that you find complicated? Because all you have to do is get yourself some whole grains like wheat, kamut, oats, barley, etc. fill up a large pot with water and make it boil for about 30 minutes (not hard, hard boiling, more like soft boiling) and then, when it's ready, you drain the whole thing into a large colander. BUT, if you can get Kashi's 7 Whole Grain Pilaf, you can cook it following the instructions on the box, too (easier than getting all the different grains separately). When the grain mixture is cool, you can add some white beans (you can get them in the cans, just rinse them in the colander under running warm water to get rid of the salt as much as possible). Then, when everything is cooled, you add frozen veggies (yes, still frozen so they retain their high nutritional value). Stuff like corn, peas, carrots, butternut or some other type of squash, beets, chopped broccoli (if they don't sell it already chopped, you will have to either chop it by hand or put it in the food processor because, if you put the big chunks of broccoli, she won't eat them), sweet potatoes (these you would have to cook but, if you have a microwave, you can use it for them -that's what I do) and voila! You got yourself gloop! Then you put a couple of tablespoons in each little freezer baggie and put them all in the freezer. Every afternoon, you take one out and leave it to thaw overnight and, in the morning, it will be room temperature and ready to be served.

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[seagoatdeb]

I found this one link that gave good advise on how to feed a GGC.

http://petgreencheekconure.com/green-cheek-conure-diet/

it sounds like you are already feeding a good variety of fruits and vegetables and seeds and that is what should be the staple for a GGC. You can get by with never making gloop or chop for one GGC conure if you want, just make sure you add in some grain they like each day. Small pieces of nuts are good for them too. It can be as easy as giving them some of the nutritious grain that you eat each day. You can refridegerate for up to 3 days or freeze the grains to last for a longer period of time.

On the healthy pellet question, this is the only pellet that I trust to give to a parrot. It is all oraganic with nothing else added but natural food.
http://www.thingsforwings.ca/TOPS-Total ... _1569.html

[Chantilly]

Of course we will help! What is it, exactly, that you find complicated? Because all you have to do is get yourself some whole grains like wheat, kamut, oats, barley, etc. fill up a large pot with water and make it boil for about 30 minutes (not hard, hard boiling, more like soft boiling) and then, when it's ready, you drain the whole thing into a large colander. BUT, if you can get Kashi's 7 Whole Grain Pilaf, you can cook it following the instructions on the box, too (easier than getting all the different grains separately). When the grain mixture is cool, you can add some white beans (you can get them in the cans, just rinse them in the colander under running warm water to get rid of the salt as much as possible). Then, when everything is cooled, you add frozen veggies (yes, still frozen so they retain their high nutritional value). Stuff like corn, peas, carrots, butternut or some other type of squash, beets, chopped broccoli (if they don't sell it already chopped, you will have to either chop it by hand or put it in the food processor because, if you put the big chunks of broccoli, she won't eat them), sweet potatoes (these you would have to cook but, if you have a microwave, you can use it for them -that's what I do) and voila! You got yourself gloop! Then you put a couple of tablespoons in each little freezer baggie and put them all in the freezer. Every afternoon, you take one out and leave it to thaw overnight and, in the morning, it will be room temperature and ready to be served.

Did that help? If not, ask away and we will answer you.

Thankyou that definately helped, it was just everytime somebody would write about it, it seemed to change.. allot. Ok, next time we go to the supermarket I will get some wholegrains, do brown rice, chia seeds and quinoa count (things we always have at home)? Thankyou allot because I was really confused at first
Oh, also can it be fresh veges instead of frozen?

[Chantilly]

I found this one link that gave good advise on how to feed a GGC.

http://petgreencheekconure.com/green-cheek-conure-diet/

it sounds like you are already feeding a good variety of fruits and vegetables and seeds and that is what should be the staple for a GGC. You can get by with never making gloop or chop for one GGC conure if you want, just make sure you add in some grain they like each day. Small pieces of nuts are good for them too. It can be as easy as giving them some of the nutritious grain that you eat each day. You can refridegerate for up to 3 days or freeze the grains to last for a longer period of time.

On the healthy pellet question, this is the only pellet that I trust to give to a parrot. It is all oraganic with nothing else added but natural food.
http://www.thingsforwings.ca/TOPS-Total ... _1569.html

Thankyou Seagoatdeb! I will give gloop a go, I will also ask if I can buy TOPS. This is a great webpage, thanks

[Wolf]

Yes, you can add all sorts of fresh fruits and vegetables to your gloop. One of the reasons that the recipe changes is because of the different things that can be added to the base recipe to create a different taste and texture for your gloop. Birds seem to appreciate some of the many different flavors of this food.

[Chantilly]

Yes, you can add all sorts of fresh fruits and vegetables to your gloop. One of the reasons that the recipe changes is because of the different things that can be added to the base recipe to create a different taste and texture for your gloop. Birds seem to appreciate some of the many different flavors of this food.

Ah ok, thanks

[Pajarita]

But I would not use fresh veggies and I'll tell you why. Unless we are talking about something we grew ourselves in our own garden, picked in the morning and add it to the gloop just before freezing it, frozen is more nutritious. See? the thing with produce is that it's at its peak of nutrition when it's on the plant. Once you harvest it, the longer it takes to get to your plate, the less nutrition it will have. Normally, the produce we buy in the supermarket (at least, here in USA) was harvested green (it ships better, no bruising, etc), packaged and shipped (which can take 2 to 5 days to reach destination), then it's ripen artificially (they use a special gas for this) so, by the time you eat that, say, peach, it has been off the plant for a week! Frozen produce is harvested ripe and either on site or from very near as well processed immediately so the nutritional value is much higher than anything fresh. Now, you still have to provide fresh because some of the phytonutrients, things like enzymes (which they use for digestion and to replenish the good bacteria in their digestive tract), antioxidants, etc. are lost through the freezing process so the combination of frozen until thawed and fresh provides a good balance.

[seagoatdeb]

But I would not use fresh veggies and I'll tell you why. Unless we are talking about something we grew ourselves in our own garden, picked in the morning and add it to the gloop just before freezing it, frozen is more nutritious. See? the thing with produce is that it's at its peak of nutrition when it's on the plant. Once you harvest it, the longer it takes to get to your plate, the less nutrition it will have. Normally, the produce we buy in the supermarket (at least, here in USA) was harvested green (it ships better, no bruising, etc), packaged and shipped (which can take 2 to 5 days to reach destination), then it's ripen artificially (they use a special gas for this) so, by the time you eat that, say, peach, it has been off the plant for a week! Frozen produce is harvested ripe and either on site or from very near as well processed immediately so the nutritional value is much higher than anything fresh. Now, you still have to provide fresh because some of the phytonutrients, things like enzymes (which they use for digestion and to replenish the good bacteria in their digestive tract), antioxidants, etc. are lost through the freezing process so the combination of frozen until thawed and fresh provides a good balance.

Pajarita is right except that when it is frozen it does start to degrade while frozen, so you need to balance how fresh with how long frozen. There is a lot of hype about frozen being better widespread on the internet without mentioning how food degrades while frozen. It degrades less in a dedicated freezer, but in a frost free fridge the degredation is more rapid.

[ParrotsForLife]

My birds get beaphar pellets they are great my birds love them and believe it or not they eat the larger African grey ones.I try to feed pellets everyday but sometimes I forget.They are natural pellets so they are not coloured or anything.Also they all have the same ingredients just the cockatiel pellets have one or two ingredients that the African grey sized pellets dont.