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I got this recipe from another post, but made some modifications to it. I no longer give my birds eggfood. For some reason they didn't seem to love it like so many of you talk about your birds eating it. When the weather got so hot I decided to try this with the thoughts it would be safer to feed in the heat. My birds LOVE it.

1 box Jiffy
6 eggs

I bake this in a glass dish.

After it cools I put the bread into my food processor and crumple it really well. Then I add the following

1 tsp wheat germ
1 tsp poppy seeds
1 tsp probiotics
1 tsp crushed rosemary

And whatever else I decide to throw in there!
I freeze it until I am ready for it.

What does the poppy seed and wheat germ do? I don't know about those for adding to food.

finchmix22 wrote:What does the poppy seed and wheat germ do? I don't know about those for adding to food.

I know the wheat germ is suppose to be good for the birds and a friend just told me that she added poppy seeds so I decided to try it. Not sure about the nutritional value but they love it.

I know for humans poppy seeds act like an opiate and can cause a person to test positive on drug tests. For finches, I wonder if it effects them that way of could be dangerous? I don't know that, I'm just wondering.

You are correct about poppy seed being an opiate.
But the amount a finch would eat, will only calm it down some.
I used to give it to first time canary hens that were easily disturbed.
Nervous hens will calm down and sit better if fed poppy seed.
In England they call it Blue Maw.
My mother would give poppy leaves to geese that would not
sit on their eggs, it would make them drowsy and calm.

Jerry

Wow... maybe I will leave it out of the egg bread and make some poppy seed muffins for my kids when school starts back.

dfcauley wrote: Wow... maybe I will leave it out of the egg bread and make some poppy seed muffins for my kids when school starts back.

Wet part.
9 eggs in the wet mix
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup oatmeal muffin mix
1 cup red river cereal
4 tble spoons veg. oil in wet mix
4 large grated carrots in the wet mix
Mix by hand or by mixer
Bake for an hour at 400 deg.
Break up and dry in oven for an 1 hr. at 300 deg.

Dry part.
9 hard boiled and grated eggs added to dry mix
4 large grated carrots added to dry mix
4 tble spoons veg. oil to dry mix

Mix and bag six tble spoons per lunch bag
Makes 12 lunch bags.
Put in freezer and use one bag as needed.

I later add, grated cuttle bone, poppy seed, more grated carrot
or small peas or fruit as I see fit.