Daily diet - what do you offer

[LauraT]

Just curious what everyone offers for daily food...What do you leave out and available all day?
I leave pellets available all day, he munches those throughout the day. I have one of the Golden Feast dry blends in his bowl on his play gym to snack on whenever he is out. I give him his warm cooked breakfast when he goes back in his cage in the morning. Midday he gets his chop meal. At night he gets a piece or corn cob or cut fresh veggies to munch.
I had a seed blend (base was safflower seeds) with dried friuts, veggies... that I would put a small amount in the cage. He would eat the safflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and a few other things, but leave most of the little dried things. Now that I am clicker training him I use Safflower Seeds, so I have removed them from his cage foods.
I am wondering if I should be finding a different seed blend to offer in small amounts. I was looking at the Hagen blend Hagen Tropimix Small Parrot BULK PER POUND - HAGEN by MY SAFE BIRD STORE but am not sure if that is just the same as the Bountiful Harvest and so on...
Thoughts?

 

[bumblebec]

Lola and Mimi share a bowl of pellets daily, they kinda graze on them through out the day. I spinkle the top with a bit of seed mix for some variety, and Mimi usually steals/eats it all before Lola, so I give Lola a small secret bowl of seeds in the morning.

They get peanuts, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds or pistachios in their foraging pods, cups and toys for the day.

They also get a bowl of cut up veggie mix with is usually beans, broccoli, pumpkin, corn, peas, carrot, capsicum and peppers.

Lastly, they get a fruit kebab that has anything from apple, pineapple, mango, passionfruit, pear, banana, grapes, strawberries, rockmelon, honey dew melon… I try to give them variety and 3-4 different chunks of fruit each day, depending on what’s in season.

Sometimes they’ll get a small bowl of cooked pasta, rice or mash mixed with peas, corn and carrot, maybe like once a fortnight.

It seems like a lot, but it usually only takes me about 15-20mins in the morning to get it all ready for them.

 

[bumblebec]

Oh and cucumber! They LOOOOVE cucumber!

 

[Alisana]

Oh and cucumber! They LOOOOVE cucumber!

I've not tried cucumber yet - will have to! My guys like fruit, but give vegies a "condescending" look, lol

 

[WharfRat]

other than their seed mix, organic fruit/veggies..........whatever we're eating morning, noon & night

Whenever I'm in the kitchen cooking they get REALLY loud........oh, and I do all the cooking here. :20:

 

[headfeathermistress]

I offer seed and pellet mix. Then Dave's Killer Bread for Breakfast and what ever veg we are having for dinner
I try to mix it up every couple days.
Also been offering fresh veggie juice as I make it

 

[abhnav]

I give oats, reddish, cucumber, watermelon and green chilly.

 

[lizardsmells]

Kazi gets 2-4 different veggies and occasionally fruit (cooked and raw) with each meal (2x a day). That makes up about half the content of his dish. The other half is Nutriberries, Pelletberries or Roudybush pellets.

I also add Avi-Calm to every meal and, at least when he's not hormonal, a tiny bit of almond butter made with palm nut oil a few times a week. He gets *very* excited when that's included. It's less than half a teaspoon most of the time, but it's enough to get him all worked up! (it's also a good way to get him to try something new!)

 

[Rana]

pellets all day/year round (harrisons fine) and towards winter the occasional portion of seeds.
Lunch: a mixture of fruits (apple, mango, pear, papaya,...), small pieces of bread, and sometimes a little bit of OJ poured over it.
Dinner: depending on what we have, some of that - or a mix of lukewarm vegies (beansprouts, brocolli, sweetpotato, carrot....)
Snacks: pinenuts and blueberries are the favorites, or a brocolli/banana muffin i make sometimes.

 

[cdnbirdlover]

Wow your birdies have really varied diets. Basil (one year old peach faced lovebird) has been with me for four months and converted to Harrison's pellets (fine) after being on a seed mix diet at his previous residence. He likes green veggies (broccoli, kale, cooked peas, romaine) but won't try anything orange or red. He refuses to try fruit. I made him some birdie bread but he just flung it out of his dish onto the bottom of his cage. We use seeds for treats and millet balls for training.