Healthy Birdie Chips (Home made)

[DallyTsuka]

so, my guys don't really care for the Harrison's super fine. but i had a whole bag, needed to use it up. Some is gonna go to a friend to try for her cockatiel and the rest will be used up in birdie bread and for these "chips" i made.



here is what i did, step by step:

Ingredients:

Sugar free, bird safe fruit juice (or veggie juice!). I like to use coconut water type juices.
Pellets (I used some of my leftover Harrison's)





Put your pellets in a small dish, fill equal amounts pellets, equal juice.






Put the container in the fridge for awhile, until the pellets are completely mush and have absorbed the juice.







Stir and mash together to the consistency of a thick pancake batter. (a little thinner is okay too)






Pour into a bird safe pan (I used an alluminum pie plate). Spread a thin circle of the past out flat. The thicker the patty, the longer the next step will take.




Bake in the oven at the lowest temperature until completely dry and brittle. Then take a butter knife and cut into pieces (shape and size is personal choice to you and your birds)





Offer to your bird:












If your bird happens to like them, it might be a good way to start changing their pellets if you need to get them used to a new kind! our bird Dally really likes them, but she still won't touch the Harrison's pellets on their own lol

 

[Featheredsamurai]

Wow! That's such a awesome idea!!

 

[Kalidasa]

Very cool! Love the pics as well

 

[MomtoPercy]

Holy cow, that's bloody brilliant!!! I'm definately going to do this because my Percy is treating his pellets like they're radioactive again. He eats only fresh foods and I have to cheat the pellets into him LOL!

 

[aether-drifter]

I'm so doing this!! I have a ton of pellets the birds won't touch. And I have a juicer!

 

[Terry57]

I am also going to try this! Dally looks like she is in heaven nibbling on them.

 

[DallyTsuka]

and luckily theyre pretty simple to make

 

[hacatta]

That's great.mine always leave a lot of pellet dust.
Which is a real shame.
I'm going to buy coconut milk on my way home,thank you.

 

[DallyTsuka]

That's great.mine always leave a lot of pellet dust.
Which is a real shame.
I'm going to buy coconut milk on my way home,thank you.

make sure it's coconut water, not coconut milk

 

[riddick07]

Oh I'm definitely trying this for our cockatoo! She loves everything crunchy and always tries to steal our chips when we eat them.

 

[SandyBee]

Great idea, gonna try too

 

[hacatta]

That's great.mine always leave a lot of pellet dust.
Which is a real shame.
I'm going to buy coconut milk on my way home,thank you.

make sure it's coconut water, not coconut milk

It's called here milk no matter what XD
But i didn't found one with low sugar,and the coconuts where moldy
So i will have to just buy a coconut at an other store tommorow.

 

[DallyTsuka]

That's great.mine always leave a lot of pellet dust.
Which is a real shame.
I'm going to buy coconut milk on my way home,thank you.

make sure it's coconut water, not coconut milk

It's called here milk no matter what XD
But i didn't found one with low sugar,and the coconuts where moldy
So i will have to just buy a coconut at an other store tommorow.

eeew mold??? you can use other juice as well, not just coconut water.

 

[MomtoPercy]

My batch is in the oven

I came across a whole coconut yesterday - with the thick white outer bit still on it. It was imported from Thailand and sold as a drink type thing. It had so much juice inside!! And once I picked all the white outsides off, I had a nice coconut shell to make a toy from as well. I was totally intrigued

 

[DallyTsuka]

My batch is in the oven

I came across a whole coconut yesterday - with the thick white outer bit still on it. It was imported from Thailand and sold as a drink type thing. It had so much juice inside!! And once I picked all the white outsides off, I had a nice coconut shell to make a toy from as well. I was totally intrigued

let me know how Percy likes them!!

 

[MomtoPercy]

The first batch was. A bit crumbly (I think I spread it too thin) but then I made a second batch, slightly thicker and added a tiny bit of egg white. Worked like a charm and Percy loves it! He made pellet-chip-soup most of the afternoon

Thanks for a great idea. I'll definately be making this again!

 

[hacatta]

Mine came out yesterday as cookies.
They love it,i put them in the freezer.
since i use leftovers and don't want them to go bad soon.
the next batch i will use carrot and bell pepper juice.
I am still figuring out how much to give them so a lot gets still wasted.
this is a great solution.

 

[Jumpingtadpoles]

What a BRILLIANT idea!

 

[JenJen]

I really want to give this a try but am not finding coconut water anywhere. Can you suggest other 'bird safe' juices/waters? I almost used flavored water but decided against it at the last moment.

 

[CheshireGrymm]

You can probably find coconut water at walmart by the seltzer and fizzy waters.