Do not attempy

[Zooey]

I think it's better not to let that good powder go to waste.
And Cage Cleaner, how did it turn out?

[Cage Cleaner]

Okp

[Michael]

If you're against waste but also worried about hunger, as long as you have time, you can put a few pellets in the bowl at a time. And only add more later. If I give too much pellets to my parrots they will chew it all into powder for the heck of it. But if I don't give them anymore, you can be sure they'll eat the powder in the bowls. Even better still is giving the right amount of pellets in the first place and then there is much less waste. Still 50% waste is a more realistic target when it comes to parrots

[GlassOnion]

Michael, do you feed much other than pellets, frozen veggies and nuts? I ask cause the corn content is so high in Roudybush, which I find is a huge useless filler ingredient. Do you feed much grain products?

[Michael]

Not much grain otherwise. The staple of their diet is roudybush, veggies (fresh broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, string beans), nuts, and seeds. The nuts/seeds are exclusively as treats but may make up 5-10% of total diet. I also give peas, corn, string beans, etc from a frozen veggie mix on occasion. Eggs not more than once a month and some other people food. Fruits on occasion. Health wise they seem to be doing very well on a predominantly Roudybush diet and I'd say that everything else is to dilute it rather than supplement it. Truman goes bonkers for corn though!

[Cage Cleaner]

[cml]

Made the bread last night. The recipe was quick and easy. It actually smelled fine until I put in the leftover powder and OH GOD smelled horrible. My Sun Conure is eating it, but the GCC I don't think understands that it's food just yet.

I am baking bread now (both for us and our birds). The birdie bread I am doing got a whole bunch of goodies in it, pellets, different nuts, raisins and seeds. I hope it turns out well, its done by the same recipe as ours, just with bird food in it as well =).

[Zooey]

Made the bread last night. The recipe was quick and easy. It actually smelled fine until I put in the leftover powder and OH GOD smelled horrible. My Sun Conure is eating it, but the GCC I don't think understands that it's food just yet.

Yeah. That happened to me. When I take out the bread my family runs away until it cooks and cools off for the smell to go away.

[allirho]

I feed my birds Roudybush pellets and buy them a new ten pound bag every two months. I recently started being a lot more strict about the amount of food I give the birds. I don't just pour food in their bowl, I weigh it on the scale first. The birds are fed twice a day, with Maxwell and Nikko both getting 10g a feeding, and Dante getting 20g. This has cut down significantly on wasted food. Dante in particular is no longer throwing pellets all over the bird room, which is a definite plus.

Pellet powder is another thing. I actually saved all the powder from the last bag of pellets. At the end of two months, when the 10 pound bag ran out, I weighed the leftover powder and found that I had nearly 2 pounds of the stuff, so my waste is just under 20%. If I do all the math, it comes out to about 13 cents worth of wasted food every day.

I don't save the powder. It goes in an empty facial tissue box, which then gets tossed in the trash when it is full. While I really wish there was some kind of magic non-powdering pellet out there so there would be no waste, to me it isn't worth spending any time trying to recycle the powder to further reduce the waste. My time is worth much more than the value of the food I'd be saving.

Imagine that my time is worth $8.40 per hour. That makes it worth 14 cents a minute. At that rate, since my total daily waste value is only 13 cents, if I spend even one minute a day dealing with the waste, I'm actually spending more in the value of my time than I am saving in the value of my food waste. And that assumes that 100% of the powder is then later consumed by the birds in whatever form (bread or whatever) I feed it to them. From a strictly financial basis, there is no benefit from recycling the pellet powder.

Have I ever mentioned I'm a business data analyst by trade?

lol!
Isn't this only applicable assuming that every hour of the day is worth $8.40 or, at least, that you're spending your time dealing with pellet powder during your working hours?
Because your hours spent at home off work wouldn't be worth the same amount of money that your hours spent at home would be, given that most people are not paid to stay at home.
But, I am no expert on anything, so I might also have no idea what I'm talking about, lol!

[GlassOnion]

^ Lol!! But if you're into baking bird bread, which I think is a great investment, saving the powder is huge.