Food Question~

[CoCo1]

Does anyone here sprout for their birdie babies? I have started with a variety of beans, seeds and legumes...but I was curious to see if anyone else is doing this.

 

[Agapornis]

I do it for Fiji. He seems to like it! Next time i'm going to order a seed mix from this company:
Sprouts for Animals

Nothing is too good for my birdy!

 

[CoCo1]

He is so sweet! What kinds of sprouts are you doing and having luck with?

 

[LoveMyParrots]

I do, Ozzie gets 1 tablespoon of sprout every day. There's beans, seeds and a few corn.

 

[moni.k]

Sprouting is AWESOME!! so easy to do and Nalani loves it!! One of the ways that helped her wean. I get a sprout mix from a local bird store. It contains black eyed beans, lentils, barley, peas, and a bunch of other safe and healthy bird beans/seeds.

I use GSE which is a grapefruit seed extract, it helps prevent fungus and mold. You can purchase it online, I found mine on Amazon for $10.

For the jar, instead of paying $12-20 for a sprout jar, I use any empty jars at home (spaghetti jar, nuts jar, sauce jar, etc.) and get tulle fabric or any net type of fabric and cut it to size. Then I rubber band it to the top as a lid and there you go, a sprout jar for less than 50 cents.

It's a lot of fun and birds LOVE sprouts. Which is great since it is so much more nutritious than just cooked beans...

 

[CoCo1]

So far I have done the pinto, black, adzuki and mung beans and they love them but I started reading on mustard seeds and I must have bought the wrong kind or something because after my rinse drain cycle and 4 days nothing sprouted and it smelled like a nasty toot after game day.... so now I am wondering should I just plant them in soil and feed them those sprouts?

 

[MonicaMc]

I have.

Sprouting for Parrots - a set on Flickr


I have photos of my birds eating a mash mix containing sprouts, but not one directly of them eating sprouts alone.

 

[CoCo1]

I think the sprouts are so beautiful! and they look delicious!