suebee
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- Jan 13, 2011
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Menopause, Estrogen, Food and Estrogen, Foods Containing Natural Estrogens, Estrogen Inhibiting Foods, PMS, hormones, hormone replacement therapy, HRT
as title suggests, with nut still chewing her feathers and knowing how bald she can get when her hormones are rife, (not to mention, vicious!) i thought i'd do a little time kill, by looking at eastrogen type foods
i have no idea if this works or not, but can't hurt to try! :22_yikes:
i thought of this as when us women hit the menophause, we can to an extent contol it though diet, so why not for our birds??
well that bag of sunflower seed feed mix is now out of the window literally! as sunflower seeds fall into the high estrogen list. as well as soy and pomegranets!
poor nut her 2 fav foods
i only got the seeded mix as nut was just wasting her harrison super fine pellets grrrr
she can how ever have melon, so i will assume the seeds are not in the high estrogen list. nuts been getting alot of pomegranet as its been, rather cheap of late, so now i just need to adjust the foods i give her, a simple change of shopping habit, and hopefully a less stressed out bird this winter!!!:bigeyes::18_crazy:
i do not think it will change her from her normal bitey behaviour, (but that has gotten alot better with increased cage time) but i want to remove :11poke: her more aggressive and extreme behaviours, as in flying attacks, having a fav person, plucking and chewing. i just want her to have a long and content life (i can't put happy, as i know in my heart, she would be happier wild, or mated :5_sad: either of which i cannot do for her)
as title suggests, with nut still chewing her feathers and knowing how bald she can get when her hormones are rife, (not to mention, vicious!) i thought i'd do a little time kill, by looking at eastrogen type foods
i have no idea if this works or not, but can't hurt to try! :22_yikes:
i thought of this as when us women hit the menophause, we can to an extent contol it though diet, so why not for our birds??
well that bag of sunflower seed feed mix is now out of the window literally! as sunflower seeds fall into the high estrogen list. as well as soy and pomegranets!
poor nut her 2 fav foodsi only got the seeded mix as nut was just wasting her harrison super fine pellets grrrr
she can how ever have melon, so i will assume the seeds are not in the high estrogen list. nuts been getting alot of pomegranet as its been, rather cheap of late, so now i just need to adjust the foods i give her, a simple change of shopping habit, and hopefully a less stressed out bird this winter!!!:bigeyes::18_crazy:
i do not think it will change her from her normal bitey behaviour, (but that has gotten alot better with increased cage time) but i want to remove :11poke: her more aggressive and extreme behaviours, as in flying attacks, having a fav person, plucking and chewing. i just want her to have a long and content life (i can't put happy, as i know in my heart, she would be happier wild, or mated :5_sad: either of which i cannot do for her)
