Pictures What are your birds eating today?

[Wardy]

Higgins Worldly Cusines Inca Bean Salad today

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And once its cooled down in go's the Not Chop

 

[rocky'smom]

Bebe had garden greens from my porch. Washed and chopped course and macadamia nut grated finely on the damp greens. He ate most of it.

 

[rocky'smom]

Mixed greens, cooked beans and legumes, cooked grains with a finely grated cashew topper

 

[AussieBird]

Finally got around to making chop, even the recently picky budgies checked it out for the grains

 

[Mizzely]

Finally got around to making chop, even the recently picky budgies checked it out for the grains
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It looks amazing!

 

[Mizzely]

Parsnip, sweet potato, carrot, peppers, radish and sprouts for both. Bosco also got some broccoli, peas, and corn

 

[Xoetix]

My sanity

 

[Wardy]

The girls are still on the Not Chop though I have started cutting KiKi's a little bit smaller she isn't eating as much as she used to but is absolutely demolishing her pellets ( they are on Roudybush California blend at the moment to give them a change )

 

[AussieBird]

 

[caspin22]

I didn't grab a photo, but these last couple of days has been a mix of Christine's Chop Shop birdie bread, fresh sprouts, lightly steamed collard greens and spinach, and chunks of cooked sweet potato. It has been a hit!

 

[Mizzely]

I also didn't grab a photo today, but the boys had thawed chop, a bunch of Sprout People Lil Bird sprouts, some Bird Street Bistro, and Ripley got soaked Psittacus and Roudybush

 

[Aviphile]

Mine always a variety of fruits and vegetables along some eggs and with some sort of bread. Last week it was applesauce bread, a new recipe that was quite nice. This week its banana papaya bread, I put the papaya seeds in it with some brazil nuts and walnuts, it turned out nice as well. I have figured out that you can hide anything in banana bread. LOL I take my banana bread recipe and only put half the amount of banana and the remaining amount of what would be banana and substitute it with another fruit or any vegetable or blend of vegetables, add nuts and bake as usual and they always love it.

Applesauce bread, I forgot to add the nuts before I put it in the pan so I just sprinkled them on top.


Banana Papaya Bread

 

[Clueless]

Looks good enough for me to eat!

I've eaten their chop too though. Better than human food!

 

[expressmailtome]

Mine always a variety of fruits and vegetables along some eggs and with some sort of bread. Last week it was applesauce bread, a new recipe that was quite nice. This week its banana papaya bread, I put the papaya seeds in it with some brazil nuts and walnuts, it turned out nice as well. I have figured out that you can hide anything in banana bread. LOL I take my banana bread recipe and only put half the amount of banana and the remaining amount of what would be banana and substitute it with another fruit or any vegetable or blend of vegetables, add nuts and bake as usual and they always love it.

Applesauce bread, I forgot to add the nuts before I put it in the pan so I just sprinkled them on top.
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Banana Papaya Bread
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That sounds great! One of my mom's aunts used to make an applesauce cake before she passed, but I never heard of an applesauce bread before.

 

[Aviphile]

That sounds great! One of my mom's aunts used to make an applesauce cake before she passed, but I never heard of an applesauce bread before.

My husband loved it! I usually only make a half batch of any new recipe to see if I need to adjust the recipe in any way. The half recipe is what I used to make bread for the birds. I like to use the nut flours along with regular flour in the recipes. I also like to use molasses, brown sugar or coconut sugar for at least part of the sugar in the recipe. I really like baking and I fully admit that I often get carried away with baking. My husband loves the breads, banana use to be his favorite but he loves them all now. I make strawberry banana bread, mango bread, mango banana bread, papaya bread, papaya banana bread, blueberry banana bread, mixed berry banana bread, peach banana bread, apricot banana bread, cranberry bread, lemon bread, pumpkin bread, peanut butter bread, almond butter bread, and carrot and zucchini bread. I have recipes just for the birds, little pies, cookies, and of course bread! Here is the applesauce recipe that I used. If you double all the ingredients then you will have a full size recipe.

Applesauce Bread Bird Size

2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter or coconut oil
1 1/2 tablespoons buttermilk (you can use regular milk)
1 egg
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp allspice
1/8 tsp salt
A pinch of ginger
Nuts

Oven 350° F
small pan greased

Mix all the wet ingredients into a bowl and mix in all the dry ingredients mixing well, add in nuts if you like and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Nutmeg ingested in small amounts as a spice, produces no noticeable physiological or neurological response, but in large doses, both raw nutmeg freshly ground from kernels and nutmeg oil have psychoactive effects.

 

[Aviphile]

Looks good enough for me to eat!

I've eaten their chop too though. Better than human food!

It was! Papaya seeds and all! Well after all it is just a fancy salad, right?

 

[expressmailtome]

My husband loved it! I usually only make a half batch of any new recipe to see if I need to adjust the recipe in any way. The half recipe is what I used to make bread for the birds. I like to use the nut flours along with regular flour in the recipes. I also like to use molasses, brown sugar or coconut sugar for at least part of the sugar in the recipe. I really like baking and I fully admit that I often get carried away with baking. My husband loves the breads, banana use to be his favorite but he loves them all now. I make strawberry banana bread, mango bread, mango banana bread, papaya bread, papaya banana bread, blueberry banana bread, mixed berry banana bread, peach banana bread, apricot banana bread, cranberry bread, lemon bread, pumpkin bread, peanut butter bread, almond butter bread, and carrot and zucchini bread. I have recipes just for the birds, little pies, cookies, and of course bread! Here is the applesauce recipe that I used. If you double all the ingredients then you will have a full size recipe.

Applesauce Bread Bird Size

2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter or coconut oil
1 1/2 tablespoons buttermilk (you can use regular milk)
1 egg
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp allspice
1/8 tsp salt
A pinch of ginger
Nuts

Oven 350° F
small pan greased

Mix all the wet ingredients into a bowl and mix in all the dry ingredients mixing well, add in nuts if you like and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Nutmeg ingested in small amounts as a spice, produces no noticeable physiological or neurological response, but in large doses, both raw nutmeg freshly ground from kernels and nutmeg oil have psychoactive effects.

Thank you!

 

[Aviphile]

Thank you!

Let me know how it turns out.

 

[HabibiMom]

Our babies got a section of corn on the cob, and green beans (favorite), and guava, and strawberries, and their seed mix. If I don't give them green beans in the mornings, they look at me like I'm the devil. they get an attitude and act like they won't eat anything else I give them for a while, but eventually they will eat whatever is there. I've tried to boil vegis to soften them for them, but they don't want anything to do with cooked stuff, except mashed potatoes, which they like that, but everything else, they want it raw, and they don't want it chopped up either...they like to chomp and forage it themselves, which makes sense, as in the wild, they would have to forage...noting is chopped up or cooked lol My female ringneck likes to make her own "chopped salad" lol she will take cucumber, or carrot, or whatever she has in her 'wet' dish that has fruits or vegis in it, and she will carry it to the other side of the cage to her seed bowl, and will comp it up and drop it all into the seed bowl and then mix it with her beak to get the seeds all over the wet foods, makes it look disgusting and nasty, and I always think to myself "please don't tell me that I'm going to have to throw all that out and you will still be left hungry" lol....but if I leave it there, she will eat it! haha. She just wants to be her own chef I guess! She just likes to chop it all up herself, and mix it up herself to her own liking, but if I were to do that, she won't touch it!

 

[HabibiMom]

also, funny thing....they had guava this morning, and I was sitting next to them while they were eating, and I was just looking at things in my phone, and Habibi (the male ringneck) was flinging all the seeds from the guava at me ! lol I almost felt like he was doing it on purpose. He would get it in his mouth then look at me, then fling his head and the seed would come flying to me. I hate guava, and can't stand the smell of it...haha. Kooky bird.