A warning about fresh beets

[Ira7]

If you’re steaming fresh beets for your bird...

Please be aware that when he finishes eating it, he is NOT bleeding from his face, ears and feet.

This has been a Public Service Announcement..

 

[noodles123]

lol-- but for real-- freshly juiced beets in humans can actually cause a kind of paralysis temporarily, so I would keep the amounts low.

 

[Ira7]

lol-- but for real-- freshly juiced beets in humans can actually cause a kind of paralysis temporarily, so I would keep the amounts low.

If he gets temporary paralysis, he’ll behave himself on my shoulder.

That was this afternoon. Now, he’s having asparagus and broccoli, which will only make his pee smell funny.

As if pee doesn’t smell funny enough in the first place.

 

[riddick07]

If you’re steaming fresh beets for your bird...

Please be aware that when he finishes eating it, he is NOT bleeding from his face, ears and feet.

This has been a Public Service Announcement..

Its even more fun when you give them to a white bird :52:

 

[Ira7]

if you’re steaming fresh beets for your bird...

Please be aware that when he finishes eating it, he is not bleeding from his face, ears and feet.

This has been a public service announcement..

its even more fun when you give them to a white bird :52:

hahhhhh!!!!!!:09:

 

[Flboy]

If you’re steaming fresh beets for your bird...

Please be aware that when he finishes eating it, he is NOT bleeding from his face, ears and feet.

This has been a Public Service Announcement..

Its even more fun when you give them to a white bird :52:

I think I remember your story! Pomegranates?

 

[noodles123]

raspberries-- vet once though Noodles was bleeding

 

[riddick07]

If you’re steaming fresh beets for your bird...

Please be aware that when he finishes eating it, he is NOT bleeding from his face, ears and feet.

This has been a Public Service Announcement..

Its even more fun when you give them to a white bird :52:

I think I remember your story! Pomegranates?

I'm pretty sure that one was pomegranates:18: We've also had slight scares with cherries, the beets, and red dyed wood getting wet & them getting it all over them!

 

[Ira7]

I never gave him pomegranates.

Do you separate the seeds and put them in the bowl, or just cut a hunk out of it, skin peel and all that internal membrane?

 

[riddick07]

You can just wash the outside and cut it in half or get the seeds out yourself. Both ways are safe. It is ALWAYS messy though lol. They fling it everywhere and it stains everything. Definitely keep away from white walls or white anything unless you are looking for splatter stain decor:18:

 

[fiddlejen]

Aaannd today I went back to giving the dehydrated veggie mix to the budgies.

I use the dehydrated veggies from Avian Naturals. Waayy too big for budgies - so I blenderize them to powder. Mix it with their seeds & add water. Greyish red mush. It has all sorts of veggies -- including BEETS.

They seem to love it. Especially Calliope, my little Albino budgie.

So. The red all around the mouth-opening -- like a ravenous polar bear feeding -- this I expected. Well, actually I had forgotten that it would occur... but still, not too big surprise.

However. I still haven't quite figured how she got all the bloody-looking beet(hopefully!)-smears all over the TOP of her little white head. Did the beet-powder fight back? ??

 

[Ira7]

However. I still haven't quite figured how she got all the bloody-looking beet(hopefully!)-smears all over the TOP of her little white head. Did the beet-powder fight back? ??

Bloody beet gets on feet...bird scratches head...

Voila.