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what is you're birds favorite food

Postby TheNzJessie » Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:57 am

what is you're birds favorite food im mostly concentrating on fruit and veg. i want to see if there are any traits between the same species.

for me my budgies favorite fruit or veg is silverbeat. he even prefers it over seed (millet) which is surprising

as for my lorikeet his favorite is green seedless grapes but apple and corn come in a close second.
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby iknowwhatiknow » Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:57 am

Rory's favourite is apple. He has a special sound he makes exclusively when apples are served.

They're closely followed by bananas, grapes and sultanas (Raisins to americans).
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby entrancedbymyGCC » Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:50 pm

The only fresh foods Scotty deigns to consume are grapes and sprouts. Scooter's current favorite is corn, but he changes his mind a lot. It's been raspberry, blueberry and cherry. He also likes his sprouts.
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby rebeccaturpeinen » Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:00 pm

Joey LOVES carrots and apples... I think its a tie! :D
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby idlepirate » Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:31 pm

For Lorenzo, it used to be carrots when I first got him. Now his ultimate is seedless grapes. I have to give him grapes everyday or he wont be happy. Its the first thing he picks out of his food bowl:)
After that its cherry, green apple, babycorn, peas-in-a-pod or snapper peas :D
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby TheNzJessie » Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:47 pm

entrancedbymyGCC wrote:The only fresh foods Scotty deigns to consume are grapes and sprouts. Scooter's current favorite is corn, but he changes his mind a lot. It's been raspberry, blueberry and cherry. He also likes his sprouts.


oh yes! Jango loves cherry too. we have apple, corn and cherry battling for second place right now. but after todays lunch i think cherry has won
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby captwest » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:16 pm

If we're gonna limit this to somewhat healthy food, i think what among the many amazons that toast with butter, or cheddar cheese is in a tie with sunflower seeds/nuts.
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby Shani » Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:05 am

Oh dear... one of:
Silverbeet, spinach, brocolli, cauliflower, capsicum (red peppers), corn, millet, cheese (Barney only gets a tiny bit of that!) or sunflowers, though he doesn't get many of those either.

Coming in at a close second: carrot, apple, seed, pellets.

I swear he doesn't differentiate between the 'favourites'... and yes, my bird is indeed a fatty fatty. He's 104g now :?
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby Tandi » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:08 am

Jodi has a few favourites, but she goes through phases! At the moment she LOVES pommagranat (when I can find it) and bluberries...those are her top 2! She also currently really enjoys sugar snap peas and little, mini tomatoes! She used to love banana, but seems over it now although she will still eat it! She also likes pears and apples! And I have just introduced her to pineapple and she seems to like it! She also likes sunflower seeds, but she only gets a few a day!
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Re: what is you're birds favorite food

Postby CheekyandMalolo » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:24 am

Tika and Rory will only eat apple atm, and occasionally the inside of a cucumber. Oh and they'll eat the seed of a capsicum.
Tim's favorite atm seems to be nectarines and dandelions. And Prince just likes anything he can throw in his waterbowl.
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