Hi after reading all of you feeding book choy, I got some! First time, lol, now what??? How do you offer it??? Taw cooked? Stalk and leaf??. Also a. Confused if I can also offer to the budgies??
Sunny a female B&G macaw;
Japie (m) & Appie (f), both are congo african grey;
All are rescues- had to leave their previous homes for 'reasons', are still in contact with them :)
We give it to Arika raw, with the stalks and leaves slit lengthwise since she drops everything when she gets distracted while eating.
The only think is that we make sure we sash it thoroughly and cut off the "dirty" root area.
My budgies adore Bok Choy, or as it's called over here 'Pak choi'.
I usually feed them full leaves, clipped to cage bars where by they can eat them, tear them to shreds and play with it as they please.
There is no right of wrong way to offer it. Try a few options and see what they like.
I don't suggest cooking it with anything added (oil, for example).
Sunny a female B&G macaw;
Japie (m) & Appie (f), both are congo african grey;
All are rescues- had to leave their previous homes for 'reasons', are still in contact with them :)
There has been a story going round for ages that "everybody knows of course" the parakeets/ budgies cannot handle (digest) lots of food with moisture in it because they come from dry-dry Australia.
Well yes.. any bird that eats a lot of moist food will get thin poop -> thats only natural, because what goes in... usually comes out again
but of course that does not mean their intestines are completely destroyed or anything as dramatic as that.
So, I call this so called "knowlege" a huge pile of horsemanure!!
Let your bird snack on healthy leaves etc. its good for them.
(and that *has* been proven)
Depending on where your bok choy (and similar Asian veggies) comes from, do be sure to soak it then rinse before serving!
For Cairo, I chop it like mad so that the leaf bleeds (? I forget how to say in English now) and sticks to his other veggies/fruits. Other times, I thread a hemp twine through it (specifically xiao bai cai, not the Western-sized bok choy) and hang it from the top of his cage - he gets so excited to tear it to shreds and really bite into the meaty part, then it falls to the bottom of his cage where he finishes it off! It turns into more toy than food, but he still eats a bit and it's great fun for an afternoon treat.