Feeding Eggs To My Amazon

[Taw5106]

I just boiled an egg, chilled it to room temp, and put it in Buddy's bowl. I "feel" it's cannabilistic, but at the same time tell myself it's needed protein. He ran to it and is going to town eating it. I know I'm being stupid, how did anyone confront similar feelings?

 

[JerseyWendy]

Wait til he starts begging to eat some chicken bones. :54:

All my fids get the occasional hard boiled egg, and one of their all time favorite foods are hot wings. :52: Yup...bird eating bird. They eat the entire bone, but always go for the marrow first. :32:

 

[Birdman666]

That's easy: I never had any similar feelings...

I feed mine cooked chicken as well as eggs.

As far as your bird is concerned, it was dead and cooked when they found it. Finders-Eaters...

 

[Taw5106]

He is STILL going to town on this egg. I'm waiting for him to get full to see if the white or yolk was eaten, or was favored. In the two weeks we've had him his feathers appear to be shinier. I can't say it's his fruit and veg diet. I want him healthy. He is STILL going to town on this boiled egg! I will measure what he left, no expert but I can track it.

 

[Fae88]

Nope lol. For some reason feeding chicken and eggs to my parrots never bothered me on a moral level. Birds scavenge and eat other birds and eggs in the wild. So why not in captivity? My family always has looked at me weird though when I feed my birds chicken or eggs they also say "Ewww cannibalism!".

 

[getwozzy]

I try to give my galah scrambled eggs when I make them, she picks at it for a bit and my husband always says "isn't that cannibalism?!?"

And I give him that look.
"No, it's good for her."

ok.

 

[Taw5106]

Thanks y'all. I admit it's a mental thing, all mental. I loved watching chow down so heartily though.

 

[TessieB]

They do like their eggs, don't they? Barney rather likes hers scrambled. Louise don't care. She'll eat any kind of egg. I haven't tried feeding them chicken but I have fed my backyard chickens all kinds of meats, including chicken. Which they turn into eggs. Waste not want not!

 

[Taw5106]

So here is a question for the experts. My husband and I love breakfast tacos. Every weekend we have them. Depending on the mood we have refried bean(remember we are in south Texas, by the gulf coast). We eat fajita, bean, egg, potato, cheese, Barbacoa (cow cheek), ground beef (picadillo), and more that I WON'T try. Don't forget the queso, (cheese, yum). Any recommendations for Buddy?

 

[SoCalWendy]

Wait til he starts begging to eat some chicken bones. :54:

All my fids get the occasional hard boiled egg, and one of their all time favorite foods are hot wings. :52: Yup...bird eating bird. They eat the entire bone, but always go for the marrow first. :32:

Raw or cooked chicken bones. The reason I ask is you can feed your dogs the raw meaty bone diet. Never feed cook chicken bones to a dog, but what about a bird. Please clarify Wendy thx!

 

[Mattroma]

Wait til he starts begging to eat some chicken bones. :54:

All my fids get the occasional hard boiled egg, and one of their all time favorite foods are hot wings. :52: Yup...bird eating bird. They eat the entire bone, but always go for the marrow first. :32:

Wendy your macs eat bones and all? Never would dream of giving them bones. Knowing how dangerous they are for dogs I just assumed they would be bad for birds too.

 

[lucy1]

Cooked chicken for birds- salmonella in raw chicken. Mine go crazy for it. I'm vegetarian but every once in a while will buy either a whole roast chicken and give the meat to the cats and bones to the birds, or shamelessly scrounge a cooked chicken carcass from friends (leftover roast)...

Mine love breaking the bones open and scoffing the marrow, to the point they will strip the meat off and throw it on the floor just to get to the bones!

 

[MomtoPercy]

Per my vet's instructions, I don't feed my dogs any chicken bones.

WELL cooked chicken bones for birds. Percy looooooves his forthnightly chicken thigh bone. He doesn't eat the whole thing, only cracks it open and eats out the marrow.

Regarding eggs - no moral issues for me either . Percy doesn't care for boiled eggs but loves his "birdy omelet" that I give him once a while. I beat one egg, add some chopped sweet pepper, snap peas, cilantro, whatever I have. Cook until done, turning to cook the "eggy pancake" halfway through (obviously I don't fill it). Once done, Percy gets 1/4 of the omelet and I eat the rest . It must still be warm (safely warm of course, not hot enough to hurt his crop) otherwise he will scream at me if it is cold...:54:

 

[Kiwibird]

I look at chicken (or duck or goose) eggs for parrots like cows or goats milk is to humans- a similar substance to what we ate as babies, only from a different, but still similar animal. My parents birds LOVE bones. If you dare even utter the word "bone" within earshot of those parrots, you best have a bone for each of them. They eat the marrow.

I am a long-time vegetarian, so I've never cooked any meats in my life. Since my hubby doesn't cook, I make the meal plans, and said meals do not contain meat Kiwi doesn't get bones, but I do feed him egg. He likes them scrambled, and I crush up the shells and add them to all kinds of goodies I bake him (the shells are a great source of calcium). When my parents were watching him once, they offered him a bone. My mom said he threw it as those it was the most offensive thing she could've ever put in his dish. I'm glad someone in the family agrees with me on dietary preferences

 

[RavensGryf]

My parrots LOVE eggs and bird meat!

I have to be careful with Raven getting too much protein though, since Pionus are prone to Gout from it. Amazons are said to be closely related to Pi's, but not sure about how their nutritional requirements differ.

 

[SoCalWendy]

Per my vet's instructions, I don't feed my dogs any chicken bones.

WELL cooked chicken bones for birds. Percy looooooves his forthnightly chicken thigh bone. He doesn't eat the whole thing, only cracks it open and eats out the marrow.

Regarding eggs - no moral issues for me either . Percy doesn't care for boiled eggs but loves his "birdy omelet" that I give him once a while. I beat one egg, add some chopped sweet pepper, snap peas, cilantro, whatever I have. Cook until done, turning to cook the "eggy pancake" halfway through (obviously I don't fill it). Once done, Percy gets 1/4 of the omelet and I eat the rest . It must still be warm (safely warm of course, not hot enough to hurt his crop) otherwise he will scream at me if it is cold...:54:

Actually you can feed dogs and cats raw chicken, bones and all. Even when it goes funky, their systems can handle it. It's when the bones are cook they become dangerous for dogs and cats to inject because they splinter. They don't splinter when they are raw. Otherwise it's a great source of calcium.

 

[MomtoPercy]

I did not realise that, Wendy! Thanks for the tip! We lost a dog due tto a splintered chicked bone in the gutt and the vet then said not to feed them but he never said the problem was that the bone was cooked. What a great tip!

April - that visual of Kiwi tossing that bone aside is hilarious!

 

[labell]

Not eating meat myself it skeeves me out but I still feed it to my hubby, dog and birds.

Now eggs...I love them! There is a farm down the road from me that I buy Duck eggs from, they are the BEST!! I went down there today to buy the duck eggs and they also had some goose eggs, I thought the duck ones were huge. Well I had to try it, just one was a meal and it was very good, I still prefer the duck though.

The birds got a goose egg too, one egg scrambled was enough for all 6 to try a little!

 

[Taw5106]

I've been reading up on raw diets. We have a bulldog that has fierce allergies. I even tried him on Blue Buffalo and no improvement, so I'm looking at taking him back to basics but want to do it right. Looking at basics because there is some very expensive dog foods with "human grade" ingredients. Knock out the expense and give him the real stuff. I'm doing the same with Buddy, fruit and veg, grains and now protein. Glad to know they can have raw chicken bones. Thanks to everyone for all the feedback.

 

[lucy1]

I just boiled an egg, chilled it to room temp, and put it in Buddy's bowl. I "feel" it's cannabilistic, but at the same time tell myself it's needed protein. He ran to it and is going to town eating it. I know I'm being stupid, how did anyone confront similar feelings?

It seems weird because they're both birds. No different to us eating another mammal. Sorry, I can't remember where I got this from so can't credit it, but love this little chart which explains it!