What to do with left over pellets?

[lexx510]

My GCC shreds a lot of his pellets. It seems like such a waste to simply throw out all the pellet dust/crumbles. Do any of you make use of the leftovers in any way?

 

[roxynoodle]

I put them into a plastic container and put them outside for the wild birds. And believe it or not, they know it's bird food and eat them. They learned it was bird food faster than a couple of my parrots did.

 

[ScottRoberts]

I add it to my mash for them....

 

[lexx510]

I add it to my mash for them....

What else goes into this mash?

 

[Mare Miller]

I just came from my avian vet with Amigo. I told her that Amigo wont eat the pellets, been trying quite a while now and he just flings them out of his bowl. I started grinding them in my cleaned out spice grinder, (a.k.a. coffer grinder), and mixing it with his oatmeal in the mornings. He loves it that way and the vet thought it was a good thing, nothing wrong with grinding pellets. She says to mix it with yogurt, put into what ever they enjoy.

 

[roxynoodle]

I just came from my avian vet with Amigo. I told her that Amigo wont eat the pellets, been trying quite a while now and he just flings them out of his bowl. I started grinding them in my cleaned out spice grinder, (a.k.a. coffer grinder), and mixing it with his oatmeal in the mornings. He loves it that way and the vet thought it was a good thing, nothing wrong with grinding pellets. She says to mix it with yogurt, put into what ever they enjoy.

That sounds like a good idea. At least you know he's getting them then.

 

[Mare Miller]

Oh! Another thing my vet recommended was to finely grate a cuttle-bone on to Amigo's food! Lot's of good vitamins there that are important for him. That's a new one to me!

 

[ScottRoberts]

I add it to my mash for them....

I use baby food squash or sweet potatoes I add flax seed crushed egg shells some almonds also baby cereal apple bits or apple sauce black beans and pinto beans. Sometime banana or a table spoon of peanut butter they get this every AM then I clean out the bowels and give them dry pellets.

there are lots of people with better recipes but this is what my guys like. My guys are not big on greens but I am working on adding things like that in.

 

[roxynoodle]

I used baby food squash and carrots to hide orange things with vitamin A in birdy bread to get my BC conure to eat them. Baby food can be very useful for hiding things you want your bird to get in with some other kind of food.

Mare Miller, that cuttle bone idea is a good one. Pete won't touch his and I'm not sure yet whether Merlin knows where hers is or whether she will use it.

 

[stephend]

I just throw Bob's pellet dust out, but I've been thinking about getting some plants this spings, and I expect that they would make decent fertilizer.

 

[lexx510]

Thank you, everyone = )