Adding a little spice to chop

Tman1

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Pegasus /Indian ringneck
Yukon/ Cockatiel
Tango/ Green cheek conure
Cash/ cinnamon GCC
Here are some thing I do to my Chop.
I frezze my chop in glass containers, that seal really well.
A container will last up two three days for my flock of four.
I pull it from the freezer. Put it in the fridge. What I do is make a mixture of Brown Jasmine rice, Barley, and Oat Groats. I boil them for about 20 minutes. I run cold water over them and let them soak for about 10 minutes, since the chop has just come out of the fridge. Mixing the chop with the grain mixture. It will cool off the mixture even more. That's one way.
Another way is i sprinkle a little cockatiel seed mix in with my cockatiels meal.
I also will make sprouts up, I make sure the sprouts have a little tail showing. I put a 50/50 mixture of sprouts and chop.
Another way is I cook up a sweet potato. And mash it up so it's smooth and creamy. And mix it together. I do 30% sweet potatoes and 70% Chop.
For the final thing I cook up 8 bean soup. I will mix that up with chop.
One meal is chop with mixes.
One other thing I add just twice a week about three days apart is I put a multivitamin power. Now the direction say a scoop per parrot. But what I do is I put the plain chop on a plate mash the chop down and sprinkle the vitamin power over the chop. I only use just 1 1/2 scoops. Just enough to give them a little extra.
The other meal is pellets. I feed Tops mini matanice pellets. To my conures and Indian ringneck. I give roudybush nibles to my cockatiel (he loves them). On thing I do is I switch up the meals pellets in the morning next day chop in the morning. And the of course throughout the day treats. I have three that eat bits of almonds or hulled sunflower seeds. Cash my cinnamon conure only likes millet spray. If I offer him a sunflower seed he stays back away and looks at me. As soon as I pull a bud off the millet.he runs right over.
That is my feeding menu 😋.
I have tried fruit but they are not ready yet.
 
Are you posting this for advice, confirmation or just because?
 
Are you posting this for advice, confirmation or just because?
Let me ask you this have I misunderstood what the forum is about . Because I apologize if am doing something wrong.
I looked at how many people are on the forum looking, so I post things that I do, so that when they look they may find an answer. There are quite a lot of people that are looking on forum. So I thought by writing down things that I do with my parrots my help them.
But I guess that I was wrong about this forum. Sorry.
 
To tman - there is nothing wrong in what you said, as advice. Its up to the reader to deduce what they want to take from it. ANY ADVICE is better than NO ADVICE. If the advice is considered wrong, you don't have to be insulting in your comments.
How else does anyone learn from their own,or others, mistaken choices, instead of passing on that knowledge to all others , if they don't share the learnt knowledge?
 
to wrench13 - don't diminish the respect others have for your advice . . .in the poor choice of words. Give the newbies their view, their ideas, and help them moreso when they seem out of place
 
no shade, I was not sure why the OP was posting.
 
Tman, I love the amount of effort you put into keeping things interesting with the chop! I know my birds like when I switch things up; if I feed the exact same food every day they lose interest. My Quaker especially wants some variety. Even his favorites get snubbed if offered too often!
 
Since I use Harrison I got this interesting email. They have a learning center. If you can stand the pro Harrison propaganda the articles are interesting. Especially this one on chop. It also gave two recipes with 'independent' research analysis. Both recipes were from popular on line sites. These recipes were interesting. I could see ways to vary them. Fresh vs frozen according to them (data not shown) had no significant effect. I'd think storage time would. My special interest was this. I own a CAG. They are prone to calcium and phosphorus deficiency. This increases with age. Supplements can only go so far. Chop alone doesn't supply enough. Especially in the ratio needed for proper absorption and use. As usual a quality pellet base is recommended. The best/worst of the article made me wish for property. I want more than ever to grow my own veggies. I now envy those who have and do. https://www.harrisonsbirdfoods.com/learning-center/
 

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