RECIPES

Our birds are fed a wide variety of foods. Soft foods are a must. A garden is grown each year and it has mostly bird food in it! The soft food mixture is comprised of sprouted seeds, mixed vegetables, fresh fruits and vegetables from the garden or whatever is in season at the grocery store.

Roudybush pellets are fed as their main diet. Mixed in with their softfoods is about 10% parrot safflower seed mixture. We all know how parrots love their seeds!

Please remember that coffee, apple seeds, chocolate, avocado, potato eyes are poisonous to your birds!  Milk and creams in large quantities, butter & eggplant can cause digestive problems. Best to leave them out too!
 

        Just Parrots goes to great length to make                     All birds are fed a pelleted diet 
        the birds soft foods. All birds from cockatiels              of Roudybush pellets which is available to
        to macaws get this mixture everyday.  Of course         them at all times.
       their soft foods are taken out and thrown out after
       just a few hours so they don't spoil. 

                                              Their food dishes right after feeding.

FAVORITE RECIPES

Just Parrots Soft Food Mix
1 lb. frozen mixed vegtables (thawed, usually has corn, beans, peas and carrots in it)
3 1/2 cups uncooked whole corn that has cooked all night in crockpot and then drained
3/4 cup uncooked pinto beans (or other mixed beans) that has cooked with the above whole corn
4 cups cooked rice or macaroni
1/2 gallon jar of sprouts
Add any one or more of the following:
    1-2 apples cored and diced
    1-2 oranges sliced
    4-6 stalks of Bok Choy and/or Swiss Chard chopped
    1/2 sweet potato cooked for one minute in microwave
    1-2 tomatoes
    1 cucumber
    1 zucchini or yellow summer squash

You can be creative and add just about anything you'd like that is safe for the birds. Use grapes, leafy green vegetables, melons, squash, bananas, pears and so on.  For birds that are feeding babies, we chop up a hard boiled egg(s) and add that to give their babies.

Handfeeding Formula
1/2 cup powdered sunflower seeds (raw)
1/2 cup powdered peanuts (raw)
1 1/2 c. Zupreem Monkey Chow powdered (Nuke in microwave for few seconds or heat in oven for few minutes to get rid of any "boogie boos")
2 cups Mixed baby cereal
1 cup Rice Baby Cereal
1/4 tsp. Super Preen powdered vitamins
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/2 tsp. sea kelp
1/4 tsp. powdered calcium (available at your local health food store)

Grind up the sunflower and peanuts in food processor first and then put in coffee grinder to get really fine. Also do the same for monkey chow. Mix all ingredients well. Store in refrigerator and use as needed. 

             Mix all ingredients thoroughly then add one or more of the following:

             2 mashed bananas
             1 cup small bird pellets
             1 cup thawed frozen mixed vegetables
             1 tablespoon spirulina (blue-green algae, found at your health food store)
             1/4 cup wheat germ
             1/3 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
             1/4 cup shelled unsalted sunflower seeds
             2 tablespoons poppy seeds

             Preheat oven to 450.  Pour mixture into a greased 9 x 13 pan,  two may be needed depending on how
             many extra goodies you add, and back for 30 minutes.  Cool until warm and serve with some fresh greens
             such as broccoli, kale etc.   Our birds just love it warm from the oven.  Refrigerate leftovers.
             Experiment with what you put in your bread.  The combinations are endless.

Recipe from Jan & Larry of Ruffled Feathers Aviary

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