Thank you! We tend to just sprout any brown rice we use! Do you watch Sophie's videos at all? She's all about the sprouting and extras! Ours love kale and parsley too!
@@TheParrotTeacher Hello. I haven't seen any other of your videos. I just found this one. I will go and watch more videos. Great job. When I offer my birds seed and vegetables. They always go for the veggies.
I agree with Sophia that is worth the extra five minutes to compose the chop fresh each morning vs. doing the ice cube holder/aliquot frozen mush method. I make a cooked grain, rice, lentil mix which I do freeze. I add commercially packaged organic frozen corn and peas. I thaw out a scoop of this frozen mix overnight and in the am I chop the greens, peppers, cooked yam, carrot, touch of fruit (apple, cherry, peach, etc. I try to buy underripe fruit because that was suggested by Tony Silva on his channel. Experiment and if your parrot likes or even prefers the underripe version of any fruit than use that. If not, then use the ripe version).
Underripe can definitely be good sometimes! I don't know if you watch any of Jason Crean's stuff he's got similar opinions (I've done some interviews with him on my channel too!)
Thank you so much for this video! My fiancé and I are brand new bird owners, we just got a pineapple conure and I adore her, but we haven’t been educated enough on creating chops for her so this has helped out a TON. We appreciate your videos so much!
You are so welcome! Glad it was useful! It can be a little daunting at first but once you get used to it all it becomes easier/routine! Even the training aspect!
Hi David... Want to thank you so much for the video about chop. I adopted 2 male cockatiels in June of 2021 from my friend that runs a bird rescue. One of them is 20+ yrs old, & he belonged to a friend of my friend that runs the rescue, but she passed away so I'm not exactly sure what his fresh diet was, or if he had one. My other one is 2 1/2 yrs old. A lady had him before my friend got him, but she surrendered him bcuz he was too wild for her. He was afraid of hands & still was when I got him, and still is somewhat, & I'm not sure if he ever had fresh stuff before. I've tried giving them both different veggies & some fruit from the beginning, & they kind of picked at it, but now they don't want much to do with it. I'm going to try to get more creative with what I use & how I chop it, & see if that makes a difference. Thanks again.😊
Hey Terri, Creativity, perseverance and persistence are the winning combinations for diet conversion. I'm glad the video helped and it's good that they are at least testing it! I have a video on getting cockatiels to eat vegetables and a few others about herbs, flowers etc that may be worth a peek too!
Hi! The moment we had these birds we've started to introduce veggies to them :) Not a lot of luck yet, but they'll get there, I'm sure. I've got 2 questions! - How do you keep the chop from going bad? I see you made quite a big bowl and I've learned to take any uneaten veggies out of the cage if they're not eaten within a day's time. - There is something the birds really like, directly translated it's called "Eggfood" (dunno if that's the English term for it). They're not allowed more than a teaspoon a week, but they go crazy for it. Would it be a good idea to mix some of that with the chop at all, or since they're not allowed more than a teaspoon a week we might overfeed them on that accidentally?
With the Chop we pop it in an air tight container in the fridge to help it keep! I’d stop with the egg food it really is not healthy for them at all! If you’d like you can give them scrambled eggs once a week instead (no oil, no salt just egg and allowed to cool) that is healthier and more useful. You could also try introducing them to fresh herbs, soaked and sprouted items as well as serving the veg in different ways!
@@TheParrotTeacherThank you for your advice! It's so horrible to me that "pet food" is so commercialized/out to get money that as good as all products contain stuff that's not even good for the pet you buy it for! I don't understand how there are no brands that do their research in the shops available to me.
Hey Pink Love! It's called Easibed. It's available in the UK! If you want to learn more about substrate for cages take a peek at my Substrate VS Bars video and my cage set up one!
have you tried a finer chop? Large chunks are easy to pick through, taking out only the few items they like. When you do it with a food processor they become much smaller and more mixed up together. Making it harder to be fussy.
How do you get a cockatiel to even eat this stuff my 3 year old only eats millet sead and a very sml amount of oats that's it please help as we just want him to be a healthy bird and a healthy waight, we lost our 2 year old female about 3 weeks ago and did the normal greaving process as they where in love 😍 he's singing ect an quiet at times but I don't think his diet is good, this made me realise as my vet said the girl was ill for I while but was a bit skinny on breast this could be down to refusing to eat, and we don't want this to happen to our boy thanks for reading hope your all well xxxHelen xxxx ps you both have an amazing channel keep up the good work, xx
Hey Helen, Have you watched Sophie's video on encouraging parrots to eat veg? I'd recommend that one for some general tips! There are some quick fire solutions: 1. try fresh herbs they are a good bridge between seed/veg and can be made into a toy. If you encourage him to nibble on that he may try other greens! 2. Provide the veg in the morning before providing much seed, as he will be hungrier. 3. Mix the seed with the veg so he is encouraged to try it! 4. Put the veg on a birdie kabob so he can nibble at it/play with it!
@@TheParrotTeacher thank you so much we will try this as we've had him for 3 years and we now want to try and hand tame him would it be to late or ok as I watched your video on this and found it helpful xxhelen xx
Hey there, Cockatiels tend to be more hesitant regarding fruits but veggies they can really enjoy! I actually have a video all about it here: th-cam.com/video/PJl4HAmC6MY/w-d-xo.html
My ringneck parrot Sigurd loves red peppers more than anything so I have to chop everything really fine so he would not eat just the peppers from his bowl.
I really like your list of veggies. Also love having colorful chop. Thanks for this list. Would love to see a list of herbs as well as veggies that you use. I also sometimes give spinach leaves to my birds. I've ssen on another site that sometimes others give tumeric, ginger to their bitds. I have access to some fresh spices as well. What do you think?
Love doing red, green, and yellow bell peppers, adds a lot of color, birds devour all 3 colors too. They also love the bell pepper seeds! I put them in my chop year round. Then switch up everything else. Trying to go seasonal. I also add quinoa, and brown rice (both cooked and cooled) to my chop as well as a chopped nut of some sort (not in huge amounts mind you). I know normal corn is crap, just sugars and empty starches, is baby corn different (I keep meaning to ask but forget)? I never looked at it to close, I just assume it was the same empty calories and sugars as normal corn. Also I am so going to shred my carrot like that for them next time, looks like it would be better than a food processor that leaves it in awkward chunks of different sizes. As larger chop like that scares my budgies to death... The little weirdos lol.
It is a nice mix of colour and I think makes it more appealing than just having one! Sophie likes to use the seeds too! I saved some, but as I was filming didn't feature it so there wasn't too much in the video! Also seasonal sounds like a good idea! It is much better than normal corn. It has no fat content, it is lower in calories and is high in VIT A and C! They may like it, especially as it bridges the sweet flavour with more veggie. Also the colour is cool!
So I think the thing I’ve over worried about when it comes to doing chop is giving them more than they need of a particular vitamin or mineral since they are so small. How do you know you’re giving them something balanced? And how do you know the best amount of grains:veggies:fruits to give them?
Generally if they get a little too much of one vitamin, like us their body will simply just not use and excrete it. The key is generally diversity and using their natural diet for inspiration! I have many more diet videos!
My birds are messy blurts! How often do you have to change the substrate in the cage. Mine is particularly bad if broccoli is involved. They can shred a floret in under a minute! lol
As Ornithology says we do a deep clean once a week. That means removing ALL of the substrate and cleaning the base. On a daily basis we pick out any old veg, poop (substrate is great for clumping it up) or any other bits we don't want. It doesn't take ages, just a minute or two!
@@TheParrotTeacher Many thanks to your good self and @ornithology dude for the tips. I thought that I'd give a quick update. It's been a couple of weeks now and the change to substrate has been like night and day! One change that I didn't expect was that with substrate down there isn't as much dust being thrown up, I thought there would be more. I'm also not throwing as much food away as they can forage and pick it up. The funny thing is that it takes me longer to clean their favourite window sill each day than their cage. P.S. unless you have lots of birds don't be silly like me and click on the 20kg bag. I've enough bedding now to last me a year! lol
@@nurgleslefttentacle6844 Hey there! I'm really glad it's worked out well. The dust thing is a confusing bit of misinformation people who cba to use it come out with! It tends to help with it rather than create it unless you use an improper type! It's also awesome that your birds enjoying foraging in it! Haha we have the same issue, ours chuck it out so we have to hoover lots. The cage itself, easy to clean lol
If their feet are damaged I would recommend going to the vet too. Even if it's not actually broken and there are other issues getting it seen too would be great. If it's something that's already been look at. I'd just try to tailor the training to the parrot. For example with targeting, do it at shorter distances. If its tidy up, put the object close to the receptacle. If it flight training, ensure you have a large surface for them to hop to!
Hey you both. Nice video again. I'd like to suggest you a nicer dicer system (don't know how it's called in GB) for this amount of veggies😉. Scampi: "Mom and dad, read it from my beak: SEEEEEEEEEEEEEDS!"
Hey there! Thanks for the tip, that is definitely something we want to look at. Is it a brand name? We do have a nutribullet but that makes things a paste lol
@@TheParrotTeacher Nutribullet is a mixer, right? Nicer Dicer is more just a slicer. It is fantastic to make a salat within a few minutes. There are several sets available depending on the furnishing. There are probably some videos here about it. But be careful when cleaning just use insandly hot and cool water for the baldes and let it dry in the air. The blades are very, very sharp and you might feel it on your finertips if you try to wipe or dry it with a towel.
@@angsfeatheredfriends nope, I mean this th-cam.com/video/GVGKnSgIhV0/w-d-xo.html Ok, normally I wouldn't even give a f*** about shopping TV channels and the overpriced trash they're selling. But the nicer dicer now is also offered on the internet and sometimes on the street parties, we got in town. And this machine is awesome. It has a good quality and is very durable, even for my stron arms. Clean the veggies, roughly cut them to size and bamm-bamm-bamm, salats ready to serve. But I am very thankfull for your link. In the 70s we got the Zig Zig Zillis here. I once lost the one I got from my parents and still searching for a new one.
I recently watched you guys video on spices, and I was wondering when do I add the spices to my birds chop? Just sprinkle it some healthy spices on whenever?
Hey so I have a 26 day old cockatiel and I just got it hours ago. It has its eyes closed and its head up with its feathers fluffed up a little. I’m afraid it’s too cold or so scared I decided to ask you cause you’re the only one I thought of when I had a question
Hey Lola, That sounds like something you may want to get advice from an Avian Vet on. They should be alert with eyes open at that point. This is a question I always ask (so forgive me if you are experienced with this) but are you experienced with hand rearing tiels? There's lots involved!
@@TheParrotTeacher it’s my first bird and all the knowledge I have is from Google and TH-cam, today it’s 29 days old and we cover the place we keep it in with a scarf so it doesn’t get cold so it gets a little dark so that’s why it closes it’s eyes I think. It had his eyes shot open the first day whenever it heard a sound. It’s been three days since I got it and it barely eats whenever we feed it, is it natural to take this long for it to eat? I think it only eats until it’s not hungry then stop.
Hey Lola, I'm going to be honest here. We don't breed or hand rear parrots so my knowledge of it is limited. We tend to focus on behaviour, training and education. However, you probably shouldn't be hand rearing a bird if you have very limited knowledge. I'm surprised the breeder sold them to you without telling you exactly what to do! The little one should be eating constantly and regularly. It should fill its crop then stop. It also depends on what you are feeding it, I presume baby parrot formula? I'd seriously consider contacting a vet or an experienced breeder to help you out with this!
@@TheParrotTeacher we talked to the breeder and they gave up tips last night and yes we are feeding it baby parrot formula, last night it ate a lot when we changed the place we kept it in, does it affect the bird? At first we kept it in a medium sized plastic container without the lid but yesterday we changed it into a a much bigger place and it ate about 15ml of its food for the first time in less than 10 minutes so I was wondering if the size of the place we keep it in affects the bird. And one quick question, how old should it be before we move it to a cage? It’s one month old today
@@lolajay1083 Hey Lola, I'm glad the breeder gave you some advice and the little one is eating! It can affect it yes. It needs to be warm, comfortable and with air circulation. It can be kept dark at night, but it needs to have some light. Honestly, that's not something I can advise on. When your little one is fully weaned I'd say it's ready for a cage!
I have a macaw. I always see this huge amount served. I am thinking they don’t eat the huge amount served? My macaw never eats that much. Just curious. Thanks
Hey Nancy, Portions for a macaw will be a bit larger and larger still as they will likely chuck some on the floor like some parrots! We tend to provide two heaped spoons of chop in the morning and most of it goes!
Fluffy ate some chop but his beak is now stained green from the vegetables. Is that normal and should I try to clean his beak? If I should clean his beak how?
Hey Candice, that is completely normal! I wouldn't worry about cleaning his beak as he will likely do it himself or it will just come off! If there's a big bit of vegetable on there for ages and he isn't able to get it off himself then do help him remove it. But a little staining is normal!
Usually around a week, certainly no longer. Air tight containers help lots with keeping it fresh (which you probably already use!) Ours really dislike frozen chop, it has to be fresh or nothing! Plus I feel fresh is generally better for them. Generally you'll be able to tell if it's going south at all due to how it appears/looks. Some people say that moisture content and where the chop is left in the fridge also impact on how long it lasts!
@@TheParrotTeacher Yeah makes sense - like all of it. I am on a constant struggle to improve the diet of my birds. I have two budgies since 9 months, that were on a 90% seed diet, with a little bit of fresh herbs und fruits mixed in. I already got far, but here in germany it feels really hard to get it right. We have no stores that sell freeze dried stuff for example. There seem to be no german experts on avian nutrition, so all communities here are still full of people who never came to the idea to feed them anything else than store bought seed mixes, and if you ask, where you could buy flower mixes for your own dry mix, you are being looked at, as if you are an alien from another galaxy. And if you research what foods are safe, you get a lot of conflicting information. Like a real lot of. And it is so hard to tell which information source is most up to date. Thanks to you and Sophie for putting out the infos you have and helping the avian community to improve our birds quality of live
@@MisterTene it’s not that different in the Uk or USA honestly despite the better availability of various things to give our parrots! But things are changing slowly and people are learning! I’d look for human grade flowers like chamomile which is widely available and not in tea bags, fresh herbs like you already use are also awesome. We plan on doing more diet content and have a course coming up too! It may be worth considering joining either of our patrons or channel memberships too as there are a couple of other German members who chat too!
Ur birds are cute they remind me of my cockatiel My birds only eat the sweet then they just go to their cage immediately Btw Who’s that on Sophie’s hair pickles? Video idea: Full guide to birds, like for example, food, cages toys, shopping apps for birds and more if u do have more ideas!
Hey there! Naughty birdies lol. Need some training to eat the other bits! It's Scampi! A full guide would be a bit tough as each species generally has unique things you need to talk about!
Great chop you and Sophie whipped up!!
Your Conure is super cute 😍
You forgot the "s" at conures. All of them are cute! 🤣
Thank you!
Yes there are a few as Ornithology says lol!
I really needed this. I got so lazy with his chop the last few days
It can happen! Us both doing it helps keep it consistent luckily!
Great video! Don't forget Brown rice and or quinoa. My birds go crazy for kale and parsley.
Thank you!
We tend to just sprout any brown rice we use!
Do you watch Sophie's videos at all? She's all about the sprouting and extras!
Ours love kale and parsley too!
@@TheParrotTeacher Hello. I haven't seen any other of your videos. I just found this one. I will go and watch more videos. Great job. When I offer my birds seed and vegetables. They always go for the veggies.
@@eabird4358 Awesome!
@@TheParrotTeacher New subscriber to both channels! Keep doing what you do!👍👍
@@TheParrotTeacher you can sprout brown rice? I never knew that :0
I agree with Sophia that is worth the extra five minutes to compose the chop fresh each morning vs. doing the ice cube holder/aliquot frozen mush method. I make a cooked grain, rice, lentil mix which I do freeze. I add commercially packaged organic frozen corn and peas. I thaw out a scoop of this frozen mix overnight and in the am I chop the greens, peppers, cooked yam, carrot, touch of fruit (apple, cherry, peach, etc. I try to buy underripe fruit because that was suggested by Tony Silva on his channel. Experiment and if your parrot likes or even prefers the underripe version of any fruit than use that. If not, then use the ripe version).
Underripe can definitely be good sometimes! I don't know if you watch any of Jason Crean's stuff he's got similar opinions (I've done some interviews with him on my channel too!)
Thank you so much for this video! My fiancé and I are brand new bird owners, we just got a pineapple conure and I adore her, but we haven’t been educated enough on creating chops for her so this has helped out a TON. We appreciate your videos so much!
You are so welcome! Glad it was useful!
It can be a little daunting at first but once you get used to it all it becomes easier/routine! Even the training aspect!
Thx that was super helpful 🎉🎉
Glad it helped!
Hi David... Want to thank you so much for the video about chop. I adopted 2 male cockatiels in June of 2021 from my friend that runs a bird rescue. One of them is 20+ yrs old, & he belonged to a friend of my friend that runs the rescue, but she passed away so I'm not exactly sure what his fresh diet was, or if he had one. My other one is 2 1/2 yrs old. A lady had him before my friend got him, but she surrendered him bcuz he was too wild for her. He was afraid of hands & still was when I got him, and still is somewhat, & I'm not sure if he ever had fresh stuff before. I've tried giving them both different veggies & some fruit from the beginning, & they kind of picked at it, but now they don't want much to do with it. I'm going to try to get more creative with what I use & how I chop it, & see if that makes a difference. Thanks again.😊
Hey Terri,
Creativity, perseverance and persistence are the winning combinations for diet conversion. I'm glad the video helped and it's good that they are at least testing it!
I have a video on getting cockatiels to eat vegetables and a few others about herbs, flowers etc that may be worth a peek too!
@@TheParrotTeacher Oh thank you David, I will definitely check it out!
Awesome and thank you
Thank you!
I love your chop...it made me want to eat it. As always, thanks for sharing.
Haha it is edible by humans too! We vary it though, so this is just one example of what we have!
Hi! The moment we had these birds we've started to introduce veggies to them :) Not a lot of luck yet, but they'll get there, I'm sure. I've got 2 questions!
- How do you keep the chop from going bad? I see you made quite a big bowl and I've learned to take any uneaten veggies out of the cage if they're not eaten within a day's time.
- There is something the birds really like, directly translated it's called "Eggfood" (dunno if that's the English term for it). They're not allowed more than a teaspoon a week, but they go crazy for it. Would it be a good idea to mix some of that with the chop at all, or since they're not allowed more than a teaspoon a week we might overfeed them on that accidentally?
With the Chop we pop it in an air tight container in the fridge to help it keep!
I’d stop with the egg food it really is not healthy for them at all!
If you’d like you can give them scrambled eggs once a week instead (no oil, no salt just egg and allowed to cool) that is healthier and more useful.
You could also try introducing them to fresh herbs, soaked and sprouted items as well as serving the veg in different ways!
@@TheParrotTeacherThank you for your advice! It's so horrible to me that "pet food" is so commercialized/out to get money that as good as all products contain stuff that's not even good for the pet you buy it for! I don't understand how there are no brands that do their research in the shops available to me.
What is the shredded wood that you have at the bottom of the Cockatiels cage? And where can I get it?
Hey Pink Love!
It's called Easibed. It's available in the UK!
If you want to learn more about substrate for cages take a peek at my Substrate VS Bars video and my cage set up one!
Cool video! Didn't realise how much taller you are than sophie. You look 6'1. The birds only eat peppers that i put in the chop 😂
Thank you!
I'm just under 6 ft!
They must be fussy eaters :P
My Sun Conure is fussy too, he’ll only eat the sweet stuff in his mix!
@@TheParrotTeacher I'm almost 5'9.
(1.79 m)
@@AaronLewisOfficial haha that's conures for you!
have you tried a finer chop? Large chunks are easy to pick through, taking out only the few items they like. When you do it with a food processor they become much smaller and more mixed up together. Making it harder to be fussy.
Hi David do you feed the birds cauliflower in the chop?
Hey Candice,
We do sometimes. But I don't really like it as it smells lol
How do you get a cockatiel to even eat this stuff my 3 year old only eats millet sead and a very sml amount of oats that's it please help as we just want him to be a healthy bird and a healthy waight, we lost our 2 year old female about 3 weeks ago and did the normal greaving process as they where in love 😍 he's singing ect an quiet at times but I don't think his diet is good, this made me realise as my vet said the girl was ill for I while but was a bit skinny on breast this could be down to refusing to eat, and we don't want this to happen to our boy thanks for reading hope your all well xxxHelen xxxx ps you both have an amazing channel keep up the good work, xx
Hey Helen,
Have you watched Sophie's video on encouraging parrots to eat veg? I'd recommend that one for some general tips!
There are some quick fire solutions:
1. try fresh herbs they are a good bridge between seed/veg and can be made into a toy. If you encourage him to nibble on that he may try other greens!
2. Provide the veg in the morning before providing much seed, as he will be hungrier.
3. Mix the seed with the veg so he is encouraged to try it!
4. Put the veg on a birdie kabob so he can nibble at it/play with it!
@@TheParrotTeacher thank you so much we will try this as we've had him for 3 years and we now want to try and hand tame him would it be to late or ok as I watched your video on this and found it helpful xxhelen xx
@@heledge Of course it's ok! You can work on bonding and taming at any age it may just take a little more effort!
Kindly advice how to motivate Cockatials to eat Veggies and Fruits please
Hey there,
Cockatiels tend to be more hesitant regarding fruits but veggies they can really enjoy! I actually have a video all about it here:
th-cam.com/video/PJl4HAmC6MY/w-d-xo.html
My ringneck parrot Sigurd loves red peppers more than anything so I have to chop everything really fine so he would not eat just the peppers from his bowl.
Hey Jasmina,
It's a very popular veggie with our conures too! Good idea with the fine chopping too!
I really like your list of veggies. Also love having colorful chop. Thanks for this list. Would love to see a list of herbs as well as veggies that you use. I also sometimes give spinach leaves to my birds. I've ssen on another site that sometimes others give tumeric, ginger to their bitds. I have access to some fresh spices as well. What do you think?
Hey there! It’s funny you mention this but I have videos on herbs and spices too! There’s a diet playlist I made!
Ginger is awesome!
Like 👍 Beautiful parrot 🍀🐦🦜
Thank you!
Love doing red, green, and yellow bell peppers, adds a lot of color, birds devour all 3 colors too. They also love the bell pepper seeds! I put them in my chop year round. Then switch up everything else. Trying to go seasonal. I also add quinoa, and brown rice (both cooked and cooled) to my chop as well as a chopped nut of some sort (not in huge amounts mind you).
I know normal corn is crap, just sugars and empty starches, is baby corn different (I keep meaning to ask but forget)? I never looked at it to close, I just assume it was the same empty calories and sugars as normal corn.
Also I am so going to shred my carrot like that for them next time, looks like it would be better than a food processor that leaves it in awkward chunks of different sizes. As larger chop like that scares my budgies to death... The little weirdos lol.
It is a nice mix of colour and I think makes it more appealing than just having one!
Sophie likes to use the seeds too! I saved some, but as I was filming didn't feature it so there wasn't too much in the video!
Also seasonal sounds like a good idea!
It is much better than normal corn. It has no fat content, it is lower in calories and is high in VIT A and C!
They may like it, especially as it bridges the sweet flavour with more veggie. Also the colour is cool!
@@TheParrotTeacher Good to know thanks for the response!
So I think the thing I’ve over worried about when it comes to doing chop is giving them more than they need of a particular vitamin or mineral since they are so small. How do you know you’re giving them something balanced? And how do you know the best amount of grains:veggies:fruits to give them?
Generally if they get a little too much of one vitamin, like us their body will simply just not use and excrete it.
The key is generally diversity and using their natural diet for inspiration!
I have many more diet videos!
My birds are messy blurts! How often do you have to change the substrate in the cage. Mine is particularly bad if broccoli is involved. They can shred a floret in under a minute! lol
I change the substrate each day but i deep clean on sundays. I know david deep cleans on sundays
As Ornithology says we do a deep clean once a week. That means removing ALL of the substrate and cleaning the base.
On a daily basis we pick out any old veg, poop (substrate is great for clumping it up) or any other bits we don't want. It doesn't take ages, just a minute or two!
@@TheParrotTeacher Many thanks to your good self and @ornithology dude for the tips. I thought that I'd give a quick update. It's been a couple of weeks now and the change to substrate has been like night and day!
One change that I didn't expect was that with substrate down there isn't as much dust being thrown up, I thought there would be more. I'm also not throwing as much food away as they can forage and pick it up. The funny thing is that it takes me longer to clean their favourite window sill each day than their cage.
P.S. unless you have lots of birds don't be silly like me and click on the 20kg bag. I've enough bedding now to last me a year! lol
@@nurgleslefttentacle6844 Hey there!
I'm really glad it's worked out well. The dust thing is a confusing bit of misinformation people who cba to use it come out with! It tends to help with it rather than create it unless you use an improper type!
It's also awesome that your birds enjoying foraging in it!
Haha we have the same issue, ours chuck it out so we have to hoover lots. The cage itself, easy to clean lol
Do u know any training for a parrot with broken feet ?
I trained a falcon with a broken foot. Not the same as a parrot tho
@@ornithologydude8649 not like that i meant like anyway to get its broken feet back
Oh no, what happened to the parrot?
Go to the vet!
If their feet are damaged I would recommend going to the vet too.
Even if it's not actually broken and there are other issues getting it seen too would be great.
If it's something that's already been look at. I'd just try to tailor the training to the parrot. For example with targeting, do it at shorter distances. If its tidy up, put the object close to the receptacle. If it flight training, ensure you have a large surface for them to hop to!
Hey you both. Nice video again. I'd like to suggest you a nicer dicer system (don't know how it's called in GB) for this amount of veggies😉.
Scampi: "Mom and dad, read it from my beak: SEEEEEEEEEEEEEDS!"
Hey there!
Thanks for the tip, that is definitely something we want to look at. Is it a brand name?
We do have a nutribullet but that makes things a paste lol
@@TheParrotTeacher Nutribullet is a mixer, right? Nicer Dicer is more just a slicer. It is fantastic to make a salat within a few minutes. There are several sets available depending on the furnishing. There are probably some videos here about it. But be careful when cleaning just use insandly hot and cool water for the baldes and let it dry in the air. The blades are very, very sharp and you might feel it on your finertips if you try to wipe or dry it with a towel.
@@RCBirds Cool, thanks for the advice!
You mean something like this? th-cam.com/video/UxGn2Egekic/w-d-xo.html
@@angsfeatheredfriends nope, I mean this th-cam.com/video/GVGKnSgIhV0/w-d-xo.html
Ok, normally I wouldn't even give a f*** about shopping TV channels and the overpriced trash they're selling. But the nicer dicer now is also offered on the internet and sometimes on the street parties, we got in town. And this machine is awesome. It has a good quality and is very durable, even for my stron arms. Clean the veggies, roughly cut them to size and bamm-bamm-bamm, salats ready to serve.
But I am very thankfull for your link. In the 70s we got the Zig Zig Zillis here. I once lost the one I got from my parents and still searching for a new one.
I recently watched you guys video on spices, and I was wondering when do I add the spices to my birds chop? Just sprinkle it some healthy spices on whenever?
Yah you sprinkle some on after popping it in their bowl! Or in the case of cloves or star anice just pop some in !
Hey so I have a 26 day old cockatiel and I just got it hours ago. It has its eyes closed and its head up with its feathers fluffed up a little. I’m afraid it’s too cold or so scared
I decided to ask you cause you’re the only one I thought of when I had a question
Hey Lola,
That sounds like something you may want to get advice from an Avian Vet on. They should be alert with eyes open at that point.
This is a question I always ask (so forgive me if you are experienced with this) but are you experienced with hand rearing tiels? There's lots involved!
@@TheParrotTeacher it’s my first bird and all the knowledge I have is from Google and TH-cam, today it’s 29 days old and we cover the place we keep it in with a scarf so it doesn’t get cold so it gets a little dark so that’s why it closes it’s eyes I think. It had his eyes shot open the first day whenever it heard a sound.
It’s been three days since I got it and it barely eats whenever we feed it, is it natural to take this long for it to eat? I think it only eats until it’s not hungry then stop.
Hey Lola,
I'm going to be honest here. We don't breed or hand rear parrots so my knowledge of it is limited. We tend to focus on behaviour, training and education.
However, you probably shouldn't be hand rearing a bird if you have very limited knowledge. I'm surprised the breeder sold them to you without telling you exactly what to do!
The little one should be eating constantly and regularly. It should fill its crop then stop. It also depends on what you are feeding it, I presume baby parrot formula?
I'd seriously consider contacting a vet or an experienced breeder to help you out with this!
@@TheParrotTeacher we talked to the breeder and they gave up tips last night and yes we are feeding it baby parrot formula, last night it ate a lot when we changed the place we kept it in, does it affect the bird? At first we kept it in a medium sized plastic container without the lid but yesterday we changed it into a a much bigger place and it ate about 15ml of its food for the first time in less than 10 minutes so I was wondering if the size of the place we keep it in affects the bird.
And one quick question, how old should it be before we move it to a cage? It’s one month old today
@@lolajay1083 Hey Lola,
I'm glad the breeder gave you some advice and the little one is eating!
It can affect it yes. It needs to be warm, comfortable and with air circulation. It can be kept dark at night, but it needs to have some light.
Honestly, that's not something I can advise on. When your little one is fully weaned I'd say it's ready for a cage!
I have a macaw. I always see this huge amount served. I am thinking they don’t eat the huge amount served? My macaw never eats that much. Just curious. Thanks
Hey Nancy,
Portions for a macaw will be a bit larger and larger still as they will likely chuck some on the floor like some parrots!
We tend to provide two heaped spoons of chop in the morning and most of it goes!
Fluffy ate some chop but his beak is now stained green from the vegetables. Is that normal and should I try to clean his beak? If I should clean his beak how?
Hey Candice, that is completely normal!
I wouldn't worry about cleaning his beak as he will likely do it himself or it will just come off! If there's a big bit of vegetable on there for ages and he isn't able to get it off himself then do help him remove it. But a little staining is normal!
@@TheParrotTeacher alright thanks
@@candicet5973 No problems!
How long can you keep the chop in the fridge? I feel like my birds like it more when it is fresh.
Usually around a week, certainly no longer. Air tight containers help lots with keeping it fresh (which you probably already use!)
Ours really dislike frozen chop, it has to be fresh or nothing! Plus I feel fresh is generally better for them.
Generally you'll be able to tell if it's going south at all due to how it appears/looks.
Some people say that moisture content and where the chop is left in the fridge also impact on how long it lasts!
@@TheParrotTeacher Yeah makes sense - like all of it. I am on a constant struggle to improve the diet of my birds. I have two budgies since 9 months, that were on a 90% seed diet, with a little bit of fresh herbs und fruits mixed in. I already got far, but here in germany it feels really hard to get it right.
We have no stores that sell freeze dried stuff for example. There seem to be no german experts on avian nutrition, so all communities here are still full of people who never came to the idea to feed them anything else than store bought seed mixes, and if you ask, where you could buy flower mixes for your own dry mix, you are being looked at, as if you are an alien from another galaxy.
And if you research what foods are safe, you get a lot of conflicting information. Like a real lot of. And it is so hard to tell which information source is most up to date.
Thanks to you and Sophie for putting out the infos you have and helping the avian community to improve our birds quality of live
@@MisterTene it’s not that different in the Uk or USA honestly despite the better availability of various things to give our parrots!
But things are changing slowly and people are learning! I’d look for human grade flowers like chamomile which is widely available and not in tea bags, fresh herbs like you already use are also awesome.
We plan on doing more diet content and have a course coming up too!
It may be worth considering joining either of our patrons or channel memberships too as there are a couple of other German members who chat too!
@@TheParrotTeacher did not see the patreon link... am I blind. I needs it
@@MisterTene It should also be in my channel banner on the main page in the top right!
Is that a pineapple cunure?
Hey Jenny,
We don't have any pineapple conures! We have a Turquoise, Yellow Sided and Cinnamon green cheek conures!
Ur birds are cute they remind me of my cockatiel
My birds only eat the sweet then they just go to their cage immediately
Btw Who’s that on Sophie’s hair pickles?
Video idea: Full guide to birds, like for example, food, cages toys, shopping apps for birds and more if u do have more ideas!
Hey there!
Naughty birdies lol. Need some training to eat the other bits!
It's Scampi!
A full guide would be a bit tough as each species generally has unique things you need to talk about!
@@TheParrotTeacher yeah its tough
Btw tell scampi im sorry they all look like bros and sisters lol
@@LHEEBB will do lol!
Nc!
Thank you!