Perfect Amazon Food Mix

sunshinemama91 · Jul 6, 2020

I need the ultimate list of ingredients for fresh Amazon food and the ultimate how the heck to get her to eat it. Gracie absolutely refuses to eat anything other than mashed potatoes, certain colored pellets, seeds, nuts, and nutriberries. I want to get her eating actual food food asap.

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noodles123 · Jul 6, 2020

I mean, that list doesn't sound THAT BAD, minus the lack of veg....and depending on the ratio of seeds to nutri-berries-to pellets.

SailBoat · Jul 6, 2020

Love your goal, but that only works when one allows a timeline that is defined in years...

Consider taking a long read into the foundation of a great diet for an Amazon. Within the Sticky Thread: I Love Amazons - ... is a segment that defines that foundation; its base and building-up from there.

As you already know, the base is built around veggies and in addition, the available veggies in their 'home ranges' changes during the year as different veggies become available. What that means is that during a year, difference sizes, colors and favors become available and, that includes textures. What that means is that what may peak your Amazons interest maybe as simply as changing the way it is provided. After all, the same veggies change when they are fully cooked, par-cooked or served fresh. Then consider whether sliced, diced, etc, etc, etc...

Shock, there is no favor difference between different color pellets. But, there are very huge differences between different Pellet Manufactures. Some are of little value, some over-loaded with tons too much of important Vitamins, minerals, etc, which can result in providing to much of a good thing. Plus there are manufactures that use 'sugar' to get your Parrot to eat they're pellets. Sugar loaded Pellets can be a nightmare during hormonal season. Another background element and tool used by some manufacturers is the over use of salt. Select a high-end pellet and switch your Parrot over to it by using a Human Grade food coloring and slowly reduce the amount of color added.

The 'not' by accident food bowl: Amazons maybe choosey, but that does not mean that they cannot be easy to fool by simply providing different foods in different sizes in the wet mix, it is surprising what you can get them to eat by having something new near the same color and size of something that they have been eating.

One can put together extensive lists of different segments of their foundation diet.

Long story really short, if it is on your plate, your Amazon will have a much higher interest whatever you are eating.

FYI: What is included in your version of the term: SEED?

sunshinemama91 · Jul 6, 2020

noodles123 said:
I mean, that list doesn't sound THAT BAD, minus the lack of veg....and depending on the ratio of seeds to nutri-berries-to pellets.

It's not the worst, but she seems to be underweight, which could be due to adolescence. The lack of veggies is what concerns me most. The rest is okay, shes just so stinking picky about food!

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sunshinemama91 · Jul 6, 2020

SailBoat said:
Love your goal, but that only works when one allows a timeline that is defined in years...

Consider taking a long read into the foundation of a great diet for an Amazon. Within the Sticky Thread: I Love Amazons - ... is a segment that defines that foundation; its base and building-up from there.

As you already know, the base is built around veggies and in addition, the available veggies in their 'home ranges' changes during the year as different veggies become available. What that means is that during a year, difference sizes, colors and favors become available and, that includes textures. What that means is that what may peak your Amazons interest maybe as simply as changing the way it is provided. After all, the same veggies change when they are fully cooked, par-cooked or served fresh. Then consider whether sliced, diced, etc, etc, etc...

Shock, there is no favor difference between different color pellets. But, there are very huge differences between different Pellet Manufactures. Some are of little value, some over-loaded with tons too much of important Vitamins, minerals, etc, which can result in providing to much of a good thing. Plus there are manufactures that use 'sugar' to get your Parrot to eat they're pellets. Sugar loaded Pellets can be a nightmare during hormonal season. Another background element and tool used by some manufacturers is the over use of salt. Select a high-end pellet and switch your Parrot over to it by using a Human Grade food coloring and slowly reduce the amount of color added.

The 'not' by accident food bowl: Amazons maybe choosy, but that does not mean that they can be easy to fool by simply providing different foods in different sizes and will wet mix, it is surprising what you can get them to eat by having something new near the same color and size of something that they have been eating.

One can put together extensive lists of different segments of their foundation diet.

Long story really short, if it is on your plate, your Amazon will have a much higher interest whatever you are eating.

FYI: What is included in your version of the term: SEED?

She mostly goes after like Millet, sunflower seeds, and whatever else she can kind of crack open.... you can kind of see what's cracked open or left over in this pic. I would like to order samples from like Tops or something and see what she likes.

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sunshinemama91 · Jul 6, 2020

And like here, she wont touch the brown, green, or orange pellets, only the red, yellow, purple, and blue ones lol.

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SailBoat · Jul 6, 2020

She looks to be eating a fairly wide range of different seeds. Target, slowly reducing the volume of Sunflower seeds and she will 'with time' begin eating more of the other seeds. Note: look for a mix that also includes grains.

SailBoat · Jul 6, 2020

Note, young Amazons rarely have much fat on them and tend to look skinny because near all the intake is being used to grow both body and feathers.

sunshinemama91 · Jul 6, 2020

SailBoat said:
Note, young Amazons rarely have much fat on them and tend to look skinny because near all the intake is being used to grow both body and feathers.

Is 9 pretty young still? She like did not go through any real hormonal changes this spring. At best she just started talking more to everyone in the house lol. Welll... actually I guess she did lunge at the kids at night for a while every time they walked past her cage lol... that was a thing.

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sunshinemama91 · Jul 6, 2020

SailBoat said:
She looks to be eating a fairly wide range of different seeds. Target, slowly reducing the volume of Sunflower seeds and she will 'with time' begin eating more of the other seeds. Note: look for a mix that also includes grains.

I think* her mix includes barley and cracked wheat. Which sucks for us since we have a celiac house lol.

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SailBoat · Jul 6, 2020

sunshinemama91 said:
SailBoat said:

Note, young Amazons rarely have much fat on them and tend to look skinny because near all the intake is being used to grow both body and feathers.

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Is 9 pretty young still? She like did not go through any real hormonal changes this spring. At best she just started talking more to everyone in the house lol. Welll... actually I guess she did lunge at the kids at night for a while every time they walked past her cage lol... that was a thing.

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You need to consider yourself and family as extremely lucky as it has been one really hot and wild year for a very wide cross-section of Parrots and Amazons have been a major part of that group.

The six - nine year old time period tends to be a clear transition between youth and Adulthood with Amazons. Add to this the transition to a new home as your Amazon is in settle-in mode. Set the relationship bond in place well over the next four to six months as the coming 2020 - 2021 season will occur and your Amazon will need the full family to understand that they have no control over when and how much hormonal chemicals will flow.

Anita1250 · Jul 9, 2020

My BFA is 37 now. When I got him in 1983, there weren't many pelleted diets on the market. I fed him seed because that's all I knew. When we went to the CAV, he recommended certain pellet-like items to add to his diet. We did that, and when real pellets became more available, we went to those. It took me about 2 years to get him to eat pellets. More money than I can remember went down the drain, or to the squirrels.

Now, he eats a variety of pellets, one teaspoon of seed a day, and many veggies and fruits. He still won't eat anything that is a leaf, but most others are ok. It has been a 37 year program to get him to eat better. Still trying new things.

I guess that patience is the constant here. Keep giving her more things that are healthy. Be ready to see it all on the bottom of the cage. However, in order to pick it up and throw it, she will have to taste it. Eventually she will begin eating it. Good luck.

SailBoat · Jul 9, 2020

sunshinemama91 said:
SailBoat said:

She looks to be eating a fairly wide range of different seeds. Target, slowly reducing the volume of Sunflower seeds and she will 'with time' begin eating more of the other seeds. Note: look for a mix that also includes grains.

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I think* her mix includes barley and cracked wheat. Which sucks for us since we have a celiac house lol.

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Not sure of the chemical interaction levels required to cause an onset or even if it is accumulative or not. Looks like a special blend would represent your safest route.

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