Do you love your bird enough to 'taste test' his food? LOL!

MomtoPercy

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I made Percy some treaty biscuits tonight - mashed banana & pumpkin, dash of honey, egg, pumpkin, flax, sesame and sunflower seeds, nuts, chopped dried banana pieces, cinnamon spice ....and chopped pellets. Yes, I tasted them when they came out the oven! Not bad at all...except for when you bite into a pellet! LOL! :32:
 

DallyTsuka

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yep, i was curious and tried some yogurt dipped treats from the petstore lol werent TOO bad. the pellet part in them had a grainy aftertaste that wasnt so pleasant lol

and ive eaten the birds pellets before to try to convince them to eat them. YUCK! lol
 

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Yes I have tasted the pellets and they are certainly yucky. It was like eating cardboard with a grainy texture. That is the reason my Fids eat fresh foods 98% of the time.
 
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Percy doesn't love his pellets, that's for sure :) But I know its good for him so it is always on offer. He usually nibbles a few before bedtime for some reason. Maybe because I take away his fresh food dinner before I start the bedtime routine.
 

Kalidasa

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Absolutely everything. I feel like one of those tasters for spoiled royalty. On the upside, I eat much healthier..pellets and all lol!
 

mrgoogls

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i have tried cooper's pellets. the taste wasnt horrible(think what you want about me :p), but it was very dry and grainy like eating sand sort of. and obviously i have tried all the fruits and veggies he eats! we both eat them as a chop them up for him!
 

Kinny

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Definitely. :) I even taste each new bag of Vetafarm Pellets. They must taste good -_- I admit, i like the taste of the nectar pellets :p
 

Kiwibird

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Yup. We put Kiwi on a pellet-based diet (at the recommendation of the vet) when we first got him, which he refused to eat. After about a week of him refusing the pellets, I tried one and found out in a hurry why he wouldn't touch them! They taste like a mix if stale corn chips and cardboard. He gets seed and fruit in the morning and a cooked grains mix with veggies at night.

I have tried the grains mix, and it isn't bad (just bland). He doesn't really eat a lot of the seed, but I want him to at least have something non-perishable to snack on that doesn't taste disgusting. He is a ravenous monster when it comes to his fruit and veg (I lovingly call him the produce destroyer lol), and he will take anything you'll give him off the table.
 

kika95

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I have a beautiful 4 year old brown throated conure named Charlie. Just bought him on April 18 2015
Yup tried some mash today mot to bad lol
 

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I try all my pets food before they get..with the exception of the raw meat I feed my dog, though it is human grade and I have cooked it and tried it.
 

Doublete

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I tried my last sweet potato/banana mash bread that ended up like a cake because it looked delish. I wasn't sweet and wasn't my cup of tea. But it is Chiquis. So I'll have to remember how I made it once I run out.
I am not a veggie or a fruit fan. I eat a few of various ones, that's it. So their chop would NEVER appeal to me. Lol.
 

dogslovepeace

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I have been trying new veggies thanks to Pepper. I'm buying them - I may as well as try them. So far I realized I like sprouts.
 

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