Budgie Chop

[DonnaBudgie]

Here's my budgie chop:

I use Bird Street Bistro Hearty Vegetables as a base. I add:

Two heads of broccoli, finely chopper.
Two large red bell peppers finely chopped
One 16oz can of whole kernel corn
One cup tricolor quinoa
1/2 cup brown rice
One 1 oz package of Kaytee dried Bird Greens
1/2 cup of Acini De Pepe tiny pasta

In a large stock pot I add water to a whole 20 Oz bag of Bird Street Bistro and prepare per instructions. Add additional water per instructions for the rice, pasta and quinoa. Heat covered to simmering for 10 minutes and turn off burner
Let sit covered until water is absorbed. Add broccoli, corn and peppers, mix well and let cool.
I bag into one quarter ziplock freezer bags enough for a few days and freeze all the bags. This batch will last me about 6 weeks for 19 budgies. I feed it in the morning and toss leftover in early afternoon. I also give them a budgie seed mix that I mix myself from white and red millet, canary grass seed and oats groats. I give them fresh romaine leaves, the darkest green leaves, or fresh spinach daily. They all eat the chop and the greens and pick at the seed too. All are healthy, happy, and get 10 hours of out of cage time daily.

 

[rheashard2]

Have you ever mixed pearl wheat or unenriched couscous in chop. CAG showing signs of boredom.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Couscous (the tiny ones) is great for budgies. I have used it. What's pearl wheat? Barley?

 

[rheashard2]

It's pearl wheat couscous. Looks like small pearls. Both are delicious! Asking because I tend to mix chop with low salt broth, soup, casseroles to minimize waste so I freely admit to eating bird food. Especially since a coarsely chopped chop is repurposed people food. AND, Mis-trustful watches my reactions to food closely before touching it.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

It's pearl wheat couscous. Looks like small pearls. Both are delicious! Asking because I tend to mix chop with low salt broth, soup, casseroles to minimize waste so I freely admit to eating bird food. Especially since a coarsely chopped chop is repurposed people food. AND, Mis-trustful watches my reactions to food closely before touching it.

My chop is delicious- of course I taste it! It's all human grade food, I think. Bird Street Bistro is a quality product.

The couscous I use is the tiny ones because they're budgie bite-sized. The pearl couscous are a bit large. I've eaten them myself.

 

[rheashard2]

Good. I wanted something different for both of us.