couscous

[pattiej]

I read somewhere on the internet (I don"t remember where now) about adding couscous to the moist egg food, especially when the have babies to feed. I was thinking of getting some today and adding it to my egg food for my zebra pair that have babies in the nest right now!

Just wondering what the more experienced here thought about this....
Do any of you add it to your egg food?

[dfcauley]

I have added it to egg food and fed it seperately. The birds I have seem to really like it.

[steph]

Interesting! This may be a dumb question, but cooked or dry couscous?

[dfcauley]

Interesting! This may be a dumb question, but cooked or dry couscous?

Cooked! (no dumb questions here....)

[Brette]

Yeah you cook cous cous. Sort of like rice.

I make a mixture of cous cous, shredded carrot and broccoli and freeze it and take bits of it out to thaw and feed them. they like it. But always seem to eat AROUND the broccoli.

[steph]

Does anyone know if you can do the same thing with quinoa? Would you cook it, too?

[cindy]

Yeah you cook cous cous. Sort of like rice.

I make a mixture of cous cous, shredded carrot and broccoli and freeze it and take bits of it out to thaw and feed them. they like it. But always seem to eat AROUND the broccoli.

When you freeze it, do you thraw it in the fridge and warm to a safe temp either in the microwave or stove top first before serving it? I noticed if I steam carrots and broccoli slightly they like it warm compared to cold or room temp.

[pattiej]

Well I finally managed to find a couple boxes last night. Had a hard time finding couscous.... Going to make some today for my pair that is feeding their babies. I thought there were 5 eggs but now I see 6 little beaks poking out of the nest. They should start to leave the nest this weekend, I see one of the biggest ones keeps flapping it's wings and peeking out alot, so that will be the first one to come out I'm sure.

[nixity]

Yes you can do the same thing with Quinoa - it's a very good source of added protein.. but yes, it has to be cooked.

With the couscous, I would recommend getting a whole wheat variety, rather than the bleached white flour kind which is really just empty carbs.

My societies particularly enjoy it, and I usually offer it along side sprouts when I give it.

You can also offer whole grain cooked barley, they like this too