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[SunMommy]

Pyro has been trying so many new foods in the last week. Today I made him scrambled eggs with onions and green & red bell peppers cooked into it. He loved it and ate everything I gave him. Then later in the day I gave him some green apple chunks and he loved that too. It was the first time for the peppers and apple, so I'm really excited. Its so fun giving him new foods. All I have to do is place a bowl on his cage top and eat from it myself. I just make lip smacking noises and talk the food up. Of course he cant resist. I just love it! It took a while to get him to this point, but its so worth it.

 

[SunMommy]

Oh and I forgot to add that he smells like an onion now.

 

[roxynoodle]

Aww, that's great. Once they want your food though, there is no end, lol! But, it's the greatest way to get them eating good, healthy food. I made a mistake a few months ago with some of that orange slice candy. You know, it looks like a slice of orange but it's gummy and has sugar on it? Well, I should not have tried eating it in front of my Nanday. She was convinced it really was an orange and got very angry that I wouldn't give it to her.

 

[Pedro]

I don't know if you are aware but it's not advisable to give onion to parrots, I believe it can be toxic.

Otherwise congratulation & i am sure Pyro will now enjoy a varied diet.

 

[triordan]

I don't know if you are aware but it's not advisable to give onion to parrots, I believe it can be toxic.

Otherwise congratulation & i am sure Pyro will now enjoy a varied diet.

Yep I was going to say the same thing....
I used scrambled eggs to sneak veggies in as well as oatmeal, its great at hiding those nutritious veggies!

 

[SunMommy]

OMG! I didnt know that about onions. I've never read that anywhere. What the heck? I feel horrible. I just looked it up and it said raw onions are bad and excessive amounts of cooked onions are bad. There wasn't very much in the eggs, but I will NEVER give them to him again.

 

[Pedro]

BIRDS COME FIRST - FEEDING YOUR PARROTS

 

[Pedro]

Sorry didn't mean to alarm you, just beware that there is a possibility that it could harm your bird. I alway's er on caution if i am not sure.

 

[SunMommy]

Thank you for that site. I have no clue how I didnt know this. I will need to look up each item before I feed it to him now. I seriously thought I knew about all the bad foods. Thank you for telling me and I think he will be fine because its been about 8 hours since he ate them. His poops look normal and he is behaving normally and eating still.

 

[Sylver]

I've tried something that seems to be working perfectly, I have a plain square white plate that I put all of Halo's fruit on. It lives on the corner of his cage. When he's out, I put all his goodies on it, and take it into whatever room I'm in.

Halo's learnt that if it's on the white plate, it's edible and/or fun to destroy. So far I've introduced him to Chillies and scrambled eggs, and he's just gobbled them up first time.

 

[Amber]

Thank you for that site. I have no clue how I didnt know this. I will need to look up each item before I feed it to him now. I seriously thought I knew about all the bad foods. Thank you for telling me and I think he will be fine because its been about 8 hours since he ate them. His poops look normal and he is behaving normally and eating still.

I believe when cooked they are not overly toxic, he should be fine, but in future steer clear of them

I would recommend in future printing up a big list of birdy safe fruits, veg and 'people food' (plenty online to copy and paste) and when cooking birdie food check to see that all the ingredients are on your list, if it is not on your safe list, to google it up or so some research first to be safe Also good if other people want to cook birdie food (or you ever have to have someone bird-sit), tell them if it's not on the list, he can't have it!

 

[Ria]

My damien had a hard boiled egg for the first time today. He picked at it, but I think I will try him with scrambled egg next time. I am just glad he tried it and didn't just chuck it out!

Is egg good for birds feathers?

 

[roxynoodle]

Eggs are good for birds all the way around. And with scrambled eggs you can crush up the shell and add it to the eggs for extra calcium. You can also add peppers.

I wouldn't feed eggs daily, but every once in awhile it's a good food for them.

 

[SunMommy]

Eggs are good for birds all the way around. And with scrambled eggs you can crush up the shell and add it to the eggs for extra calcium. You can also add peppers.

I wouldn't feed eggs daily, but every once in awhile it's a good food for them.

I've never tried crushing up the shells and feeding those with the eggs. I wonder if Pyro would eat them... Hmm... I will have to try this.

 

[roxynoodle]

Eggs are good for birds all the way around. And with scrambled eggs you can crush up the shell and add it to the eggs for extra calcium. You can also add peppers.

I wouldn't feed eggs daily, but every once in awhile it's a good food for them.

I've never tried crushing up the shells and feeding those with the eggs. I wonder if Pyro would eat them... Hmm... I will have to try this.

They seem to know the shells are good for them, too. I watched a whole bunch of chickens for a neighbor who was out of town a few days. He told me to take the eggs out of the nest box every day, throw them hard on the ground to break them and let the chickens eat them. I was thinking, really? They will eat their own soon to be babies? Well, they went bonkers for them, including the shells. They were flying up in my face even trying to get the eggs.

So I tried doing this for my birds and they like the shells too. Now of course if you are going to be sharing the eggs with them, you probably won't, lol! But if you are only making them for the birds, or you put some egg in a separate pan for the birds, try adding the shells.

 

[SunMommy]

When I told my mom I was feeding him scrambled eggs, she started referring to him as the little cannibal. It is kind of funny that birds like eggs. I think it might be Pyro's favorite human food.

 

[dknight8919]

Onions are toxic to parrots!