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Post by nixity » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:48 am

dfcauley wrote: I have found that my birds will not eat carrots. They hardly touch broccoli. But they love green leafy lettuch and romaine lettuce. I have them some collards from the garden, but not much.
Donna - have you tried putting it into a food processor?
The first time I got my birds to eat broccoli was by sprinkling chopped florets on top of their seed.
When they started eating that, I decided I would try a food processor (easier, less time consuming than hand chopping!), and I tried mixing in some other vegetables too and it worked like a charm.

As Bill Niven (Morning Bird) would say, if a bird doesn't eat something (even if it's good for them) it's most often because the bird does not recognize it as food. Sometimes you have to teach them to recognize items as food, however you find the best method, is up to you to be creative! lol

I've tried Laraine's mix but it's really expensive /lb (combined with expensive shipping to the northeast) and I'm not a huge fan that it is basically only white millet and canary seed.

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Post by DVBourassa » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:50 am

dfcauley wrote:I have found that my birds will not eat carrots. They hardly touch broccoli. But they love green leafy lettuch and romaine lettuce. I have them some collards from the garden, but not much.
Thats interesting. My zebs, owls, and cubans all eat every scrap of broccoli and most of the carrots. They are chopped up in a food processor so they are bird bite sized pieces.
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Post by nixity » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:53 am

DVBourassa wrote: Thats interesting. My zebs, owls, and cubans all eat every scrap of broccoli and most of the carrots. They are chopped up in a food processor so they are bird bite sized pieces.
I definitely think this is key. When I would put whole pieces of broccoli clipped to the side of the cage, they would literally cling to the opposite side of the cage as if it were a green goblin there to eat them.
It wasn't until I got the idea to try just sprinkling the tips of the florets onto their food that they started nibbling, then devouring, it.
I still don't put it in whole anymore, since I finally got them eating it, but they are the same way - the consume every last bit!!

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Post by B CAMP » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:43 pm

I put broccoli in a blender and chops it realy small then just mix it with eggfood they eat it all

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