My Zon loves this food!!!

[torrap]

Hey, I finally found something Marley likes to eat...and it's a root!!!
She loves BEETS!!!!!
http://s872.photobucket.com/user/minsk80/media/Marley/013.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
Looks like she is wearing lipstick...LOL
I cooked beets and purple sweet potatoes tonight. I gave her just beets to try, and she went crazy. She makes this funny sound, I guess trying to tell me "hey, this is good, I like it". The only other 2 times she made this sound after I gave her something to try were when I gave her FISH and SCRAMBLED EGGS.
So 3 things so far. She also likes cooked sweet potatoes, but she didn't make this sound when I introduced it to her.....
The sound is actually very funny, almost like a dog bark.....
What your Zons like to eat?

 

[iSancho]

I tried giving my amazon beets and he wouldn't have it. So I end up eating it and I liked it. It taste like wet corn so i know my Amazon would like it if he give it a chance because he loves corn. He doesn't like sweet potato either! I tried to offer all the veggies raw, boiled, and even baked. So far I've only found he likes corn.

 

[henpecked]

If you want them to try new veggies,,, put a little butter on it. After they start liking it ,you can cut out the butter(too much fat,but good VitA). My zons eat almost anything,crab legs are a favorite.

 

[JerseyWendy]

That is too funny about your Amazon loving beets so much.

My Amazon literally will eat anything and everything I put in front of them. They are SO easy and willing to try new foods, especially if they see I show an interest in it, too.

 

[iSancho]

How do you present it? I chopped it up raw at first to small tiny bite sizes. And if he doesn't eat it raw then I cook it. I really want him to eat sweet potato so I tried to string it like fries so he can hold it and I baked it. He does try anything new I put out but he won't try it again. So I guess I can keep trying.

 

[davisn456]

Dumb question I guess, but wouldn't that stain an amazon's beak since it's a lighter color? Beet juice is nearly impossible to get out of just about anything else...I have a couple of drips of it on my countertop that have been there for years.

 

[henpecked]

Wait til you give pomegranate, hope you don't have white walls,LOL.

 

[torrap]

Dumb question I guess, but wouldn't that stain an amazon's beak since it's a lighter color? Beet juice is nearly impossible to get out of just about anything else...I have a couple of drips of it on my countertop that have been there for years.

....that's why I posted a picture. She looked so funny, like she is wearing some lipstick or something. But don't worry, it didn't change the color of her beak, it came right off after a very good shower. Also she would let me clean it with my fingers, so no problem with that.
It did change the color of her poop though to bright burgundy...hahaha......

 

[JerseyWendy]

Have you tried giving her blueberries yet? That will also discolor her poop. First time I saw Sam's droppings after he gorged on some blueberries, I nearly had a stroke, until I realized what it was from. :54:

 

[OrangeWingedKiwi]

Your amazon is a beauty

 

[SoCalWendy]

Have you tried giving her blueberries yet? That will also discolor her poop. First time I saw Sam's droppings after he gorged on some blueberries, I nearly had a stroke, until I realized what it was from. :54:

Pomegranate discolors their droppings too.

 

[torrap]

Have you tried giving her blueberries yet? That will also discolor her poop. First time I saw Sam's droppings after he gorged on some blueberries, I nearly had a stroke, until I realized what it was from. :54:

Blueberries was the first thing I gave her actually. She loooooooooves blueberries. And since we are talking poop here, Marley just pooped here next to my computer....so please don't be offended anybody and I hope you don't find it super disgusting, but here is a picture......LOL
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Somebody would get really worried ........... but not me.....hahaha.......I gave her beets for dinner.........LOL

 

[iSancho]

does your amazon's poop changes color for corn? or does the urine changes to yellow from eating corn?

 

[JerseyWendy]

Blueberries was the first thing I gave her actually. She loooooooooves blueberries. And since we are talking poop here, Marley just pooped here next to my computer....so please don't be offended anybody and I hope you don't find it super disgusting, but here is a picture......LOL
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Somebody would get really worried ........... but not me.....hahaha.......I gave her beets for dinner.........LOL

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You're right, some people would freak out over that purple beet dropping. :52:

 

[torrap]

does your amazon's poop changes color for corn? or does the urine changes to yellow from eating corn?

I didn't see any significant changes in her poop after eating corn. I did check her every poop for the first few days and worried about it being too watery, too dark, too white, too this, too that, but I would see it going back to normal in a few droppings....so I decided to stop checking it all the time. Beets just made a very dramatic change in the color of her poop, I though it was funny.....