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Post by santinoandmondo on Feb 26, 2014 1:08:44 GMT
Do you cut up the herbs finely too? I have a hand blender that I use for soups so maybe I'd try that or use my oster blender that makes smoothies.
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Post by saif on Feb 26, 2014 17:48:37 GMT
Pammy how do u feed pea's to ur birds ? Raw or boiled ?
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Post by dianapalmer on Feb 26, 2014 17:51:51 GMT
Hi, Pammy. What do you mean about peas not being a true vegetable?
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Post by Pammy on Feb 26, 2014 18:02:22 GMT
Saif, I just thaw frozen peas and give them to my birds like that. I'm assuming they were blanched before they were packaged.
Diana, aren't peas legumes? And corn, of course, is a grain. I'm not sure either can really and truly count as a vegetable. Still, it's gotta be better than an all-seed diet.
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Post by dianapalmer on Feb 27, 2014 1:31:41 GMT
After I wrote the question, I looked on Wikipedia. W says "Peapods are botanically a fruit, since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a (pea) flower." Imagine that! However, I think the nutritional content may be more like a vegetable than a fruit. My grocery order arrived yesterday. Instead of peas and carrots they sent me peas. So, the birds will be having straight peas tomorrow. Last night they refused their broccoli. I think they saw me posting about how much they liked broccoli. Personally, I have always Hated peas!
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Post by Pammy on Feb 27, 2014 1:43:52 GMT
I like frozen peas and fresh peas well enough, but detest canned peas. Ugh! I do consider peas vegetables in a loose sense. I feel very happy that Kringle, Clausy, Noel, December and Mistletoe like their peas. We've come a long way.
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Post by kmic on Mar 27, 2014 13:09:08 GMT
Hi guys, now that my budgies are starting to nibble at vegetables I came back to this thread to see what you said re removing seeds from their cage to get them to eat the veg. So far they do nibble freely at the veg, but apparently never enough to satisfy their little tummies so they turn to their seeds. This morning I tried removing the seeds so that hopefully they'll take more from the veg, but what they did instead was go to the bottom of the cage and hunt any left over seeds that they threw down themselves previously. I do clean their cage quite regularly but obviously it'll be full of poop again after some time. So I didn't like the idea of them looking for seeds down there (and they got their seed cups back). How do you prevent this?
Also I usually give them their veg outside of their cage, so the mess is in their room not in their cage (quick to clean once they're back in). Today they didn't seem to want to come out so I placed the veg kebab near the cage door so some of the left over veg fell into their cage. What do you usually do? Clean the cage each day to remove the veg they drop? I think they'll keep getting their veg outside as cleaning the room everyday is taking enough time as it is.
(currently pallets are still out of the question as I haven't found any at local stores and the ones I found on Amazon + shipping are out of my budget)
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Mar 28, 2014 0:36:20 GMT
do you have a grate at the bottom of the cage? I clean my tray/grate every week
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Post by kmic on Mar 28, 2014 8:53:16 GMT
No just a tray. But won't the fruit/veg become stale after a week and start attracting insects?
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Mar 30, 2014 1:53:33 GMT
hm, my veggies are like a mush. they usually dont fling it around
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Post by Pammy on Apr 1, 2014 4:12:24 GMT
I put my birds' veggies on a child's plastic plate on the top of the cage. They eat practically all of it everyday. The few pieces that fall through to the bottom land on the newspaper I have in the tray. I have a thick stack of newspapers in the tray and carefully fold off the top layer every other day and throw it away, exposing a fresh layer. When I get to the bottom of the stack, I go through the cumbersome activity of dragging the huge tray and the grate to the bathtub and scrubbing them both. I dry them, and then reassemble the whole thing with a fresh stack of newspapers.
Some of you may remember that my birds didn't like green beans and would pick them out of the mix and drop them through to the bottom of the cage. Well, a couple of days ago I caught Mistletoe eating a green bean! He broke through the skin and was using the lower part of his beak to scrape out the insides. Since then, I have noticed far fewer rejected green beans down on the newspapers!
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Post by santinoandmondo on Apr 1, 2014 11:21:40 GMT
I switch out the food cups in their cage twice a day - veggies (thawed frozen corn and/or peas, sometimes thawed frozen veggie mix, parsley, with broccoli florets sometimes) with a layer of pellets in the morning and only pellets in the afternoon. You're supposed to switch out the fruit after just a few hours in the warmer temps else the fruit would attract bugs. For your flight room, it sounds like the kebab is working for veggies but maybe just set a heavy plate set on the floor with fresh fruit sprinkled with seed changed daily? Or two plates on the floor, one for whole veggies and one for fruit along with a kebab in their cage for the days they don't want to leave their cage? I like the idea of layers of newspapers but my kids have discovered the select-a-section Bounty paper towels. The use a larger piece (2 sections) and smaller piece (1 section) overlapping to line the trays. The smaller section is directly under their favorite perches. And since the addition of veggies to their diets, we replace the smaller section midweek and the entire lining on the weekend .
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Post by kmic on Apr 1, 2014 14:31:33 GMT
Hmm I really like the idea of stacked newspapers! Somehow never thought of it. I always have just one, but that would make cleaning faster on regular occasions. So I can have a stack and each time I end up giving them their fruit/veg inside I'll just remove a layer of newspaper. I need to discipline myself more to discipline them to eat their veg/fruit though. Though I'm always offering the veg I'm still not being strict about it so for them it's almost a treat that they'll take some of for the taste but that's it.
I like the idea of having plates with whole veg/fruit, but I guess I'll go there when they start at least eating what I'm placing on the kebab coz I currently end up throwing away most of it each day.
Thanks a lot!
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