Basic parrot food

Posted on 28/10/2014 by Cooking for Parrots

This morning I make a small batch of Chop.
I give this basic food along with some Harrison’s pellets to my birds.
I usually add some fresh or frozen fruit with the Chop.

HOW DO YOU MAKE CHOP:
I start with some ingredients (whatever I have in the pantry) and chop them in the food processor:

In this case: Apple from my garden with zest, red, yellow and orange peppers, spinach, mixed nuts, arugula.

Mix together.

Feezing in easy servings

Offer the birds with tasty additions.
In this case:
Fresh Banana, Pistachio, crape, hemp seed and a piece of fig.

Is your parrot picky and don’t like chop?

Posted on 10/09/2013 by Cooking for Parrots

Don’t your parrot eat mixed vegetables (mash/chop)?

How I learn my African Grey eating chop.
I made a nice mash / chop, and threw it in the blender, not too long, just nice small pieces and I add pieces of nut: half walnut, a cashew, hazelnut or other nuts. Just because my Grey love nuts!
The little nut was also devide in smal pieces and I add it at the blended greens.
Gradually I reduce the amount of nuts and after a while only greens/fruits remained.
I do not remember exactly how long it took Tommy began to eat everything, but I think after 2-3 months.

Now I add sometimes nuts or seeds at the mash, just to spoil my birds 🙂

Basic / mash / chop / mixture

Posted on 21/10/2012 by Cooking for Parrots

I made a batch of basic veggie mixture. Delicious fresh raw organic vegetables. Divided into portions and frozen. Convenient for everyday use, just add some ingredients and every day there is a lovely meal. And the stock saves a lot of work in the morning 🙂

In this case, I made the following mixture:

All colors are represented.

A big pot full of chopped vegetables.

That looks so healthy! Nice base for a delicious vegetable soup!

Divided into portions for later, when it is frozen, to take out the portions from the form and place in a Ziploc bag.

In the absence of forms, here some smaller Ziploc bags to put in the freezer.

And here the basic mix with some fruit through.

A bit of everything

Posted on 09/07/2012 by Cooking for Parrots

Today, the parrots have a bit of everything!
Below are two individually frozen portions, the upper one is cooked beans and at the bottom the mash of pellets #10.

Below the thawed portions, bee pollen, grated coconut, apple and peeled hemp seed.

In addition, the birds got some Harrisons pellets and homemade pellets.

Mash and pellets

Posted on 03/03/2012 by Cooking for Parrots

Today I make a big batch of mash for the birds! One part goes into the dehydrator to make pellets and one part I’m freezing. So I can give it ‘fresh’ to the birds if I’m in a hurry in the morning and don’t have time to prepare something for them.

What goes into the mash / pellets?

I also had a nice dish with fresh sprouts, which I just forgot to put in the mash, but they are equally well prepared 🙂
– All organic: Kale, lettuce, winter purslane, broccoli, cucumber, cougette, yellow and red peppers, banana, apple (not on the picture) sweet yam, chili pepper, parsnips, beetroot, carrot, pumpkin and beets.