Sweet Potato for finches?

[OliwiaMoriarti]

Hi, I often bake myself sweet potatoes (no salt, no oil, nothing). Is it ok for my zebra finches to eat some of my sweet potatoes after they cool? I heard that finches can eat raw sweet potatoes, but my birds are not fans of such hard to chew things.
Hope to hear from someone soon. Thanks in advance.

[Icearstorm]

OliwiaMoriarti

Cooked is fine. I'm trying to get mine to eat sweet potato, but they've ignored it so far.

[OliwiaMoriarti]

OliwiaMoriarti

Cooked is fine. I'm trying to get mine to eat sweet potato, but they've ignored it so far.

Awesome, that´s good to know. I´ll see if I get mine to eat them, they're very picky, so wish me luck. I´ll tell you if I figure something out.

[MariusStegmann]

You can put the raw sweetpotato in the foodprocessor and turn it into a fine mush. Then you mix it with with aviplus and feed it to them daily. I used to do that with carrots, butternut, broccoli, apple, spinach and a few eggs. I poured the mixture into icecube trays, froze it and popped out a few vegi cubes on a daily basis. I would let it thaw out and mix it with Avi-plus eggfood to feed to my finches on a daily basis.

Nowadays, I am lazy, I just take a small amount of Avi-plus, add a bit of niger and poppy seed, and grate a small amount of carrots over it. I mix it with a small amount of hot water and feed it to the finches in the mornings.