Post by Casey on Nov 25, 2011 21:15:59 GMT -8
Mash is a blended mix of seeds, pellets, veggies, fruits, and anything you want to get your bird to eat. Pellets do best soaked to give the mash that mushy texture or you can use a soft veggie such as cooked yam or even oatmeal.
you throw everything together and either mush it together with a spoon (if you are patient) or put it all in the food chopper/blender. It is a wet food, and very messy, but it is a very good way to get your bird to eat something it may not like (such as pellets). It can only be placed in your bird's cage for a half hour. This can be made for small or large parrots, the ingredients all depend on species and what you have in the fridge!
I usually use soaked pellets unless I have a soft vegetable like cooked yam. I make it at night and make enough servings for breakfast and dinner the next day. It must be refrigerated and should not be kept in the fridge for long. You can freeze some if you make too much.
In this batch I had used cooked yam, cooked green beans, cooked lima beans (BEANS AND YAMS/SWEET POTATOES MUST BE COOKED), cooked carrots, brocholli, peas, corn, cilantro, red pepper, rosemary, tad bit of garlic, cinnamon, celery seeds, soaked pellets, and seed mix. I smashed it all together with a spoon.
The lovebirds like it a LOT, they go nuts for it for breakfast and give up even their sunflower seeds for the mash! The tiels, they hardly touch it, they've picked out the corn and ignored it otherwise.
Can be served warm.
you throw everything together and either mush it together with a spoon (if you are patient) or put it all in the food chopper/blender. It is a wet food, and very messy, but it is a very good way to get your bird to eat something it may not like (such as pellets). It can only be placed in your bird's cage for a half hour. This can be made for small or large parrots, the ingredients all depend on species and what you have in the fridge!
I usually use soaked pellets unless I have a soft vegetable like cooked yam. I make it at night and make enough servings for breakfast and dinner the next day. It must be refrigerated and should not be kept in the fridge for long. You can freeze some if you make too much.
In this batch I had used cooked yam, cooked green beans, cooked lima beans (BEANS AND YAMS/SWEET POTATOES MUST BE COOKED), cooked carrots, brocholli, peas, corn, cilantro, red pepper, rosemary, tad bit of garlic, cinnamon, celery seeds, soaked pellets, and seed mix. I smashed it all together with a spoon.
The lovebirds like it a LOT, they go nuts for it for breakfast and give up even their sunflower seeds for the mash! The tiels, they hardly touch it, they've picked out the corn and ignored it otherwise.
Can be served warm.
