Making birdie bread for the first time! Need Help!!!

I am thinking about trying to make birdie bread for Nicky since he's not too keen on eating his pellets. I want the recipe to include the zupreem fruit pellets and the zupreem natural pellets that I have. I'm not sure what else I want to put in it. Any ideas? Can I add in some spices to make it more tasty for him? Also, is it okay if I incorporate it into his daily diet instead of giving it as just a treat? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

I had posted a recipie for birdy bread in the recipie section I think I titled new recipie for birdy bread which I figured I had better post because I would not rember exactly how I made it. I use the zupreem fruit pellets in it .but you could use both. it also has chooped peppers, corn, frozen pureed butternut squash cranberries cinnamon and whatever else I put in it extra eggs and two pkgs of jiffy corn bread min. The directions are in that post.

Chopped celery and cut corn, chopped carrots, radishes, any veggies you might have on hand.

This is the recipe I use for my sun conure. I'm not sure where I got it, but I didn't want to use the Jiffy mix.

1 cup ground bird pellets
1/2 cup corn meal
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup ground almonds
4 whole eggs
1 jar baby food carrots


baby juice ( I used apple) or water to mix into firm dough
roll into small balls, place on a lightly greased cookie sheet,
Bake at 325
for 20-30 minutes. Cool, refrigerate or freeze.

I use Zupreem fruit pellets and a little Zupreem plain for the pellets. I used a jar of carrots the first time but this time I used a jar of sweet potatoes. I only had to bake them for 20 minutes and I keep them in the freezer and take out enough for two days at a time. One batch I did use juice (just a touch) but the second batch I didn't use any juice. My conure loves this bread, looks forward to it each day. This is also how I got her converted to pellets. Hope this helps.

I really want to try this recipe. So you think its good for Zons too? Do I need to put in something chunky because she is bigger? I am having such a hard time getting her to eat anything but this crappy seed mix(its a popular mix I just hate feeding seed). All her berries, citrus fruit, tomato, vegetables offered daily just sit there and go to waste but I keep trying.

All birds need seed mix aswell as a pellet mix but your right a seed mix is no good on its own for any species of bird IMO with my mam been on hols at the moment and our sennie has ran out of pellets she's been stuck on just seed so i have been sharing jinx's pellets with her but I'm not bothered a long as they are both healthy.

That was just the recipe I used to get my sun conure to like pellets. For a bigger bird I would just make bigger bread balls and cook them longer. You can add chunks if you want, I never tried it. But that is just her bread recipe.

To get her to eat her veggies I made a birdie chop. I just chopped up a variety of veggies pretty fine so she would have no choice but to try different ones, otherwise she would pick out one or two and leave the rest. The more of it I pretend to eat the more she will try.

kitkat135 said:

This is the recipe I use for my sun conure. I'm not sure where I got it, but I didn't want to use the Jiffy mix.

1 cup ground bird pellets
1/2 cup corn meal
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup ground almonds
4 whole eggs
1 jar baby food carrots


baby juice ( I used apple) or water to mix into firm dough
roll into small balls, place on a lightly greased cookie sheet,
Bake at 325
for 20-30 minutes. Cool, refrigerate or freeze.

I use Zupreem fruit pellets and a little Zupreem plain for the pellets. I used a jar of carrots the first time but this time I used a jar of sweet potatoes. I only had to bake them for 20 minutes and I keep them in the freezer and take out enough for two days at a time. One batch I did use juice (just a touch) but the second batch I didn't use any juice. My conure loves this bread, looks forward to it each day. This is also how I got her converted to pellets. Hope this helps.

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I am making this today for my sun conure! I will let you know how she likes it, once it cools!

kitkat135 said:

To get her to eat her veggies I made a birdie chop. I just chopped up a variety of veggies pretty fine so she would have no choice but to try different ones, otherwise she would pick out one or two and leave the rest. The more of it I pretend to eat the more she will try.

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I did the same thing, except I put the veggies through my food processor and mixed them all together. Then I mix in some pellets and a little seed too. It's my GCC's favorite food now.

my recipe for birdie bread ( my son calls it egg shell cake ) is:
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup blue cornmeal - I get this at an organic farmers market, can just add another cup of plain though
2 whole eggs, shell and all
3/4 cup peanut butter
4 small jars of baby food ( any type- I use fruits )
1 to 1 1/2 cups fresh chopped vegetables ( I use brocolli and greens as my girl wont eat them outside of birdie bread )
nuts ( I just throw in a handful of whatever I have on hand )
I mix it all in the food processor
bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees in a cast iron skillet ( lightly greased with olive oil ). cut into serving sizes , freeze for up to a month. thaws on counter in about 30 minutes.
I dont use any pellets as my girl gets plenty of nutrition from the veggies and fruits in this bread. I feed this bread several nights a week or if I am to be away from home and wont be able to remove her fresh fruit/ veggies before they spoil.

BTW- My 14 year old son has eaten a piece of this to try it and said it was really yummy ! Ruby agrees as she gobbles it up everytime I serve it to her !

I have a cornmeal mix that had the cornmeal and wheat flour together but it also had baking soda and baking powder. Are those safe?????

Lola loved the bread!!!

I think next time I will add more veggies to the mix!!!

Eat with her! Go buy a human Vegan recipe book and enjoy!

If you have a good relationship with your bird, she'd be more interested in something if it's yours. Make some vegan recipe tortillas, breads, and stuff, and make a mini serving with the pellets mixed in. You eat yours. Set hers on the plate. When she comes to check it out, give her little nibbles!

Addendum: Double check the ingredients and make sure it's vegan, not vegetarian. Usually, any if these recipes work, but occasionally you run into dangerous infredients.