Looking for blender to pulverize dry pellets

[noblemacaw]

Not sure is this is the right area to post my question but here I go.

I am looking for a home blender, mixer, something that I can take pellets and pulverize them into a fine powder. When I did a search for such a thing I get these freaky commercial things for businesses to make drugs and bakeries and hazard chemicals and what not. NOT what I want to purchase.

Apparently I do not know how to search for such a device because my searches are coming up with things not for home use.

Does anyone have any idea for a product that I can use to pulverize my pellets into a fine powder?

 

[Rio Mom]

I have a Ninja and it works great for lots of things! I use it to make chop and mash for the fids. I also use it to powderize cookies and graham crackers for dessert recipes, so I'm sure it would work great on pellets too.

 

[Blue]

Blendtec... if they can blend ipads and skeletons on the Will it Blend videos, pellets should be no problem lol

 

[weco]

I thought I read that you are in the states, if so, all you have to do is go to any Dollar type store & you can get an inexpensive one for less than $25, however, what I think you may need is a food processor, as they have stacked blade assemblies & will provide the pulverizing/powdering you're looking for.....blenders will leave pieces of pellets because their blades are usually angled upward, for blending.....

 

[noblemacaw]

HOLY CRAP! Blentec is mucho expensive. They sure look nice and better be the best for over three hundred bucks.

Can the Ninja handle pulverizing pellets into a fine powder? I guess I thought it was more to make juices and to make smoothies type work. Umm???...You would think after all these years I would already have a blender on hand...but alas when my sister moved out she took the blender that was glass...*sigh*

 

[noblemacaw]

weco....thanks for the heads up. I put the question out there to figure out what would be best to use for what I need it for. Pulverizing pellets into a fine powder is not a basic need of most people. Food processors might have to be the way to go. I sure am not going to buy a 4 thousand dollar milling system. LOL

 

[Rio Mom]

I just put a couple tablespoons of Pepper's coarse Harrisons in my Ninja. Powder in seconds!

 

[noblemacaw]

Rio's mom did it make it into a very fine powder? I need to be able to mix the powder with water and it pass though a syringe. when I try to hand grind the pellets into a powder it is too course for me to make into much for syringe.

 

[Rio Mom]

This is the one I have, just the basic model, only $40. Ninja Master Prep 9320.8.181 Food Processor - Walmart.com I can post a picture of it, and mix it with water and take another picture for you.

 

[noblemacaw]

You are so very helpful Rio's mom and I thank you for all the extra work you are doing to help me figure this out.

What I am going to need to be doing is to be able to still offer Valentino his night hand feedings before he goes to bed. Right now because he is still a baby I am using hand rearing formula I mix up with water and feed though a 30 cc syringe. BUT I cannot be feeding him baby hand rearing formula forever so what I want to be able to do it to take his pellets and grind them up to a fine powder like the hand rearing formula to feed to him for his bedtime feeding when he is an adult.

This is so that I can simulate still hand feeding him warm wet food but it will be of his NORMAL pellet diet instead of the hand rearing formula which is for baby parrots. I have one more bag of hand rearing formula coming and after that I want to switch over to normal pellets pulverized to use as hand rearing syringe feedings. I need to be able to pulverize the pellets into a fine powder.

After reading that your model is a blender AND food processer....I wonder if this might be the ticket I need....Even without needing to make powdered pellets I do need each of these kitchen items too..

Rio's mom...your the best!!

 

[Rio Mom]

Let's see if this works, otherwise I can email the pics to you. First is a pic of the pellets ground into powder.

 

[Rio Mom]

This is the powder mixed with water

 

[Rio Mom]

Then, to test the syringe idea, I cut the needle off one of my cats insulin syringes. I was able to suck up the "forumula" and push it back out very easily.

 

[noblemacaw]

Wow...that might just work for me!!!. I know I probably sound kind of crazy with what I want to be doing with the pellets but I want Valentino to always take the syringe just in case I ever have to medicate him or have to hand feed him for what ever reason. BUT I don't want to feed him hand rearing formula every night when he is an adult. Right now the extra calories are just fine because Valentino is still growing and gaining weight. He is a very active parrot with his flying and I have noticed if I fly him a LOT that day he can lose up to 20 grams that day in weight.

I feed him one to one and half full syringe of 30 cc's at bedtime so he goes to bed with a warm full crop.

Even if I find that your ninga type thing does NOT totally work for the pellet thing I need I still can use it for my stuff..LOL.

 

[Rio Mom]

You will LOVE it for everything! Chops veggies nice and fine, a little longer with a bit of juice or water, and you have mash. And for graham cracker crust recipes, it's very awesome. The day this thing croaks, is the day I go buy another immediately! LOL!

 

[noblemacaw]

Thank you so much Rio's mom. I appreciate the experiments you did for me with your Ninga. Did you feed it to your parrots afterwards? Valentino LOVES to be hand fed before he goes to bed.

 

[Rio Mom]

You're very welcome! They're already in bed. I think next vet visit I will ask my vet to explain to me how to syringe feed just in case. I've never done it, and would be afraid to try and do it wrong.

 

[noblemacaw]

That might not be a bad idea...just in case. Every baby parrot I got from the breeder that was weaned they regress a little bit and take comfort form hand feeding but I learned how to do it form a breeder and my parrots were weaned babies so they were not totally dependent on the hand feedings. The thought of aspirating them is scary as heck. Macaws have a STRONG feeding response and I have had the syringe go flying out of my hand because of the head jerking thing.

Having someone show you and guide you is the best way. That way you can learn how they swallow and how to administer the liquidy food properly. The parrot does the work of eating the formula so you have to develop a rhythm of them using the tongue and swallowing so that you don't give too much and they choke. Valentino is a dribbler. I get him going and he is going at it but instead of eating what is in the lower mandible he wants me to continue to feed while it runs down his lower beak into his chest.

If you have never hand feed a parrot formula please have someone show you and guide you. There is a learning curve for this but with the correct guidance you can learn and do it properly.

 

[Rio Mom]

Thank you! I will be sure to ask my vet to show me next visit. (I'm sure the fids will be thrilled about it lol). My hubby came out to the kitchen because he heard me using the Ninja. He asked what I was making. Ummmm pellet mush? Lol

 

[noblemacaw]

LOL...he probably thought you were making something HE could eat....LOL