Egg Food Recipe...

MonicaMc said:

It looks great, but I'd worry that that would be too many calories eaten per week. I offer some sort of eggs once or twice a week, and often wonder if that's too much, as I don't want my birds to have bad cholesterol.

Is there any concern for that where you live?

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Copperarabian said:

That sounds like a great treat! I agree with monicamc that I wouldn't feed it everyday. I would give it Rosie 1 or 2 pieces once every 2 weeks.

I love how you make a mold and cut it into little pieces, such a good idea!

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LoveMyParrots said:

That looks very yummy! I'll give it a try when I have time! Thanks for the recipe!

I'm also not too sure if that's too much calories and protein if fed every day. Since Ozzie is on a pelleted diet (Harrisons organic pellet), so he only gets a very little piece of egg once a week.

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aliray said:

Thanks for the recipie and the very clear directions

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I want to STRESS how important a good diet is. Please believe me. My LaFitte had blood cholesterol that spiked 300 points, up to 532, in just a year when we became a bit over indulgent on giving him "people food". At the same time he was still eating the good vegs/greens/rice/bean mix and pellets mind you. But my husband was sharing small bits of his breakfast most days with him and that included bits of meat and eggs. My husband's cholesterol level is low (genetics) but my bird suffered.

You may think that a bit of donut, pizza, scrambled eggs, meatballs, etc. will not affect her. I'm here to tell you it will. I don't mean it will make her pluck or make her scream. But it will affect her health.

Bad health can be corrected by a good diet though. When we learned of the high cholesterol last summer we immediately stopped with the "treats". Now we give an almond if they see us eating crackers with peanut butter on them and go into begging mode.

By sticking to the fresh food/cooked grains/beans diet and pellets we saw his blood cholesterol drop back to 235.

Vibrant feathers, healthy beaks, supple skin: all come from a good diet. It is well worth the discipline of providing good food and witholding unhealthy foods when you see the results.

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FYI, I too thought a little fatty human food could not hurt but guess what, it can. Here's my story. Kinda long so if your eyes glaze over, sorry. For the first three years of our Eclectus (SI) couple's lives we fed fresh foods, some seeds and a bit of our meals. LaFitte was a bit underweight and Rosie a bit overweight (kind of like my husband and me now that I think of it) at the end of those 3 years. I met a vet who I liked and we discussed their overall health then did bloodwork on LaFitte. There were a few concerns such as high uric acid levels but mostly he was in the normal range, yet not in optimum health. The vet suggested, urged, pleaded that we begin feeding pellets and thus began a year on Harrison's High Potency. During this year my husband continued to slip them a bit of his breakfast fare that often consisted of eggs and either bacon or sausage. Now, I'm talking a really small amount but fairly frequently. This same year I began religiously feeding more leafy greens and deep orange veggies and continued with the other good habits we had begun when we bought the birds. So, last year we had the annual bloodwork done on LaFitte, thinking we would see outstanding results as they had been eating pellets along with what I considered a really good diet. Wow was I shocked when results showed that his blood cholesterol had risen from 230 to 532!!! The vet I saw then (we had moved) discussed diet with me and focused on the fact that I was feeding Harrison's High Potency pellets. She said that those were known to cause elevated blood cholesterol. I did not question how she knew this, but immediately switched to Harrisons Lifetime Pellets. I also mentioned the results on a couple Eclectus specific email lists I'm subscribed to and one long time breeder asked if my birds consumed eggs. Of course they did. So, my husband stopped sharing his breakfast if it was high in fat or included eggs. For 4 months I fed Harrisons Lifetime then, after doing some research on my own about Harrisons and plant based cholesterol, I switched back to High Potency. This last year I also concentrated on providing sprouts on a daily basis along with the same fresh food and typical "mash" diet. Recently I had the annual bloodwork done on LaFitte and was pleased to see that his blood cholesterol is back to 232. This proved to me that high fat foods even in very small amounts, if fed routinely, can result in poor health in Eclectus. BTW, the vet I finally found in my area (well in my state at least... he's 130 miles away) told me that other than the high cholesterol, last year's results were much better than the previous year when I thought only the uric acid was out of wack. I had taken copies of the previous two year's lab results with me to this new vet so he would have a history of sorts. He also thought that the birds seem very healthy now, which bloodwork confirmed.

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