Egg Food

FeatherHarp · Post by **FeatherHarp** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:39 pm

HillJack.....LOL!!

I wanna see pics of that!!

hilljack13 · Post by **hilljack13** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:20 pm

Well, there's this problem. The camera won't fit will all of us in there and it doesn't have an auto timer..

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beccafigs · Post by **beccafigs** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:40 pm

Haha that's too funny.

williep · Post by **williep** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:35 am

Thank you for your advice. I think my biggest problem with ALL wet foods and eggfood is that I cannot remove the food after 4 hours as they recommend as I work quite long hours. I have about 40minutes in the morning in which I can leave food before I have to remove it to go to work and about 1 1/2 at night when I come home. I found that my birds rarely touch the food at this time as they are getting ready to go to bed.

So I’ll try the bread recipe and mix it with some dry commercial eggfood?

Post by **Sally** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:05 am

williep - yes, try that bread recipe (Jiffy mix one), my birds really like it and it can stay in the cage all day, it just dries out. And I also do like Hilary, leave a dish of commercial eggfood (dry) in the cage at all times for my breeding birds. That way, they have eggfood available in the morning before I get around to checking cages. Any time you add moisture, you will have to deal with the possibility of mold, so with your working hours, I'd just stick with dry.

beccafigs · Post by **beccafigs** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:08 am

Williep- I agree with what you are thinking of doing. My birds went nuts for the bread and with that and the dry egg food there is no risk of it going bad while you're gone.

Fancie Flight · Post by **Fancie Flight** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:27 pm

Ya kno wi have never convinced my birds to eat birdie bread, NONE of them,

I did pick up some dry egg food finally yesterday I guess im gettin lazy about making it fresh. lol

FeatherHarp · Post by **FeatherHarp** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:38 pm

Fancie Flight....birdie bread is great if one has the time to bake it AND if the birds will eat it. Every bird I have owned has loved it.

But If I had all the animals you have I don't think I would have time to bake for them...lol! Dry eggfood would be the easiest way to go. We all do what works best for each of us.

TammyS · Post by **TammyS** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:25 am

I feed fresh eggfood daily. When I give it to my birds - I spread it out in the dish so it is in a single layer. I find that the eggfood that isn't eaten within the first few hours dries out before it goes bad.

But I would caution using this method in the summer when it is extremely hot and humid.

williep · Post by **williep** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:41 am

I have finally figured out everything - lol as if that is possible with finches!

After all my problems mentioned above (work interfering with my finches) I conducted a study over the last 2 weekends.

I now feed commercial dry food everyday along with the normal seed mix and crushed eggshell. I have not tried the bread yet, but I think I should consider it very carefully given my baking skills.

I now present a wet food which consists of hb egg, eggshell, sunflower seeds, commercial dry eggfood and some fruit and veggies I have at home. Most of the time grapes, carrots, cabbage, spinach, lettuce, cauliflower.

I also include the quota of sprouted seeds in the above mix. I then chop everything together in my mini blender and this mix lasts about 4 days before I have to restart the whole exercise.

I solved my 4 hour limit problem by removing all the dry food at night, I then present my "patented" mixture about 20min after sunrise. The birds go wild on it, so much so that I had to set-up a second feeding station. I then add my dry foods after about 40-60 min, usually the time a leave for work. By noticing the eating habits during the day I found that the birds consume the special mix within 3 - 4 hours. Perfect! I also found that they are now much more interested in my prepared food that the dry stuff, at least somebody appreciates my cooking!!

FeatherHarp · Post by **FeatherHarp** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:40 am

williep.....your birdies sure do eat well. It sounds like you have a great system. I will have to try something like that too...now that you have inspired me!

williep · Post by **williep** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:47 am

I know the post is probably dead and buried but I downloaded a pic of my birds going wild on the wet food I provide, sorry it's a bit blurry

FeatherHarp · Post by **FeatherHarp** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:35 am

Thanks for sharing the photo....they look like they are really into the food and don't even notice you taking the picture!

It looks like you have the plate nailed down?...good thing or it would probably be on the floor!

williep · Post by **williep** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:51 am

LOL, the plate is not nailed down but there is a nail in the brick below. The “plate” is a plastic yogurt cover with a little hole that slides over the nail to prevent it from falling. It rests on a sloped window sill.

The first 2 days I did pick it up from the ground.

beccafigs · Post by **beccafigs** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:05 pm

Wow that's a great picture, beautiful birds. They don't even know they're so spoiled, either!