Freezing fresh juice

[ZoraKarasu]

Hello everyone!

Zora (my yellow sided conure) does not like to eat a lot of vegetables chopped. She likes it in its juice form. I was wondering if it is okay to freeze freshly made juice for 3 days? I would definitely thaw it before giving it to her.

My plan would be to juice her favourite carrot juice, and use the juice to blend vegetables so she has a mushy-liquidey meal!

Any inputs or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated.

 

[charmedbyekkie]

I would have three thoughts on that: (1) Nutrition, (2) Adaptability, and (3) Hormones

Nutrition
Will you be losing the fibres and other nutrients in the process?
In addition, juicing condenses things down - that can be good or bad. Fruits, for example, the fact that you have to get through the fibres and density of it means we eat less sugars. But when you juice it, you don't get full as fast, thus consuming more sugars. The density (from eating a whole fruit) means you eat a more healthy/reasonable portion, whereas drinking means you consume more than may be healthy.

Adaptability
What happens if you are suddenly ill or away for a while? Who will take the same level of care to juice food for your bird?
Birds are creatures of habit and often are slow to change. I would try to keep your bird's diet diverse/flexible/adaptable. So if you do juice, be sure to also encourage other ways of consuming healthy food. Fresh, unprocessed food is easy for someone to help out with. Juicing is another task. If your bird needs to be the care of, say a friend or even a vet, they need to be able to feed your bird.

Hormones
Mushy food like mash or pureed food can trigger hormones because it is so similar to regurgitated food (food they would receive from a mate).
Do be warned that triggering hormones means triggering sexual frustration, egg laying (risky - see egg binding and other issues), biting/aggression/nesting, etc.