Our Green Cheek Conure eats mostly seed (with occasional fruit and some human offerings. I realize this is far from ideal, so I'm glad I found your channel and how you prepare chop.
Just stumbled across your channel and holy crap am I glad. A channel from an Aussie about parrot chop and bunny basics. Heaven. Thankyou for such a rad video, really want to try the mix you have used here for my birds as a bit of a different mix. Love it!
This is a very helpful video. Making my first African grey CHOP. Going to try Kale, spinach, and broccoli, carrot and sweet potato along with bell peppers. Hopefully he will eat it.
Interesting information. I use to buy expensive parrot food that needed to be cooked at the bird store. I decided to make my own years ago and it has worked fairly well. Our parrot gets everything we eat at night time dinner. I discovered she loves pasta so now when I make her food, basically your chop, I add cooked spaghetti. I break it in to 2" lengths and cook it with an assortment of other types of pastas and veggies. I make about 100+ 1/3 cup servings and freeze it. The pasta is always the favorite part of her food. You add a couple of items I don't and now am excited to try zucchini being one.
i wasn't sure what "chop"was and your video was very informative. I like that you suggested other ingredients even though you weren't using them. I enjoyed watching you prepare the chop while explaining everything. Thank you so much..excellent video.
WOW!! That's so kewl to know!! I wish I could make my piggies food in Advance like that!! It's so hard on my Bad days to get Rocky fed LOL My Taz he only eats dried veggies so he's simple to feed no chopping required lol..Thanks to PetSmart and there cheap feeding to there piggies !! Adopt don't shop!! I feel so sorry for those piggies. In the pet stores!!! Thx for sharing take care hun Shared as always good luck on the 500!! Shey
Thanks so much :) It is very handy to be able to prepare it in advance, it certainly saves a lot of time and money I think doing it in big batches, and saves food going to waste if it doesn't get eaten in time.
Hi! I only watched your video midway before I was compelled to post a comment about how informative you are and that you break everything down knowing that some food items aren’t known by the same name in other parts of the world. I appreciate this video and I am so happy that I came across it, thank you. It’s extremely apparent that you have a true love for your companion animals as you are so knowledgeable and it’s heartwarming that you went through so much effort to put this super helpful video together! Thanks for also offering tips about other vegetable/fruit options and providing information regarding their nutritional value. 😁 Now I will return to watching your video in its entirety. #subscribed
Lovely video! Suggestion Ive started adding wheat grass powder for the benefits of 100% Vitamin A and the 25% Betacarotene the aroma gives it the draw:) and Dulce Flakes have a huge amount of Iodine and potassium. They love it!
Thank you for sharing I didn’t know they could eat fruit seeds as I seen you mixed that in. QU. 1 how long can you freeze the food for ? 2 after u defrost does it get mushy? 3 I missed the amount you save for each bag ?
Anna Anna Hello, if freezing it should last a long time. I was making up to 2 months worth at a time. Yes it can go mushy, that can depend on ingredients, more watery veg will go more mushy etc. Some people add rolled oats to the batch to absorb some of the moisture. I think the amount is about 1/3 cup per meal and i usually put 2 meals per bag.
Just subscribed! Loved your video! Hope you reach 1,000 soon! I have been making chop for my birds for about 2 years now. I noticed that you didn't blanch any of your ingredients. I have always blanched - not sure why I started doing it. LOL Please tell me - does it hurt the nutrition of my chop because I blanch everything? Thank you!
Thank you so much, seems to be heading up to 1000 pretty quickly! :D I have never even thought to blanch ingredients, the only thing I do is lightly steam sweet potato when I use it. I have no idea if blanching hurts the nutrition, perhaps for some things but not for others. I honestly don't know the answer to that one.
Thank you. Yes they do, they need to have no seed and pellets aren't recommended for them either. Fresh vegetables, fruit and sprouts are the recommended diet for eclectus. That being said high seed diets aren't good for other parrots either because the seeds are all very fatty and can lead to fatty liver disease. So a wide variety of fresh veg and fruit is recommended for any parrot.
@@PetLifewithBec ok thank I was just wondering because I am getting a amazon well it is actually my dad's but I was trying to research and stuff like that
Maybe you could make your own foraging toy out of romaine lettuce? Kind of like how some people replace wraps and buns with romaine 😂 I don't know how it would be done, but I see a video on how to make foraging toys out of paper. Maybe that could inspire something?
Hello. I should prepare it for my budgies. Can you briefly explain it to me? English is not my native language... I can chop veggies, add there sproutes seeds and legumes, beans... mix it and serve it? The rest can stay in a refrigerator for a few days? And need not be heated then? How do you recommend me to sprout legumes and beans to stay away from the risk of getting mold there? Thank you. P:S: you have a nice parrot.
Thank you. Not all beans are safe to sprout, I only sprout mung beans and adzuki beans. Chop it, mix it together with the sprouts. You can keep it in the refrigerator for a few days, but I freeze most of mine in containers that hold 2 days of food. When I sprout seeds and the small beans, I rinse them water. Soak them in water for 12-24 hours. Rinse them again and drain the water. I rinse my sprouts at least twice a day until they are sprouting and then put them in the fridge until I have used them up. I hope that helps. Sorry for the late response, I wasn't notified of your comment.
do you feed her the same mix in the evening or do you make another one and do you make this for the week and leave it in the freezer? i dont have a parrot i would like one im gathering all the info i can get before thinking to get one
Hi there :) I don't feed the same mix in the evening, no. This is just for breakfast. Then in the evening she gets whole or large chunks of vegetables, such as large pieces of capsicum, half a kiwi fruit, corn on the cob etc. I find that making the chop mix allows me to better provide a large number of different vegetables every day, rather than preparing individual meals every day. I make this for about 40 days worth, I divide it into containers that holds 2 serves of food (so it lasts 2 days) and just remove a container from the freezer as needed.
No, I only clean her cage once a week, sometimes twice. It you don't have barriers it can end up all over the wall and it is easier to wipe that off when it's fresh. But I do clean her bowl every time I feed her.
Thank you so much. I use to feed fresh veggies but stopped because I thought it would put more bacteria in the cages. I'll start feeding chop again now that I know I can store it in the freezer 😊 I have a female eclectus named Ori and a male blue wing macaw named Nero. Thank you for the content😊
@@michellewood68 No problem. I find of course it's more of a problem in summer because of the heat and then I do tend to clean the catch tray below her bowl more often, but I'm not cleaning the whole cage more frequently.
@@PetLifewithBec There you go. In the 60's, 70's & 80's we didn't have pellets. We fed fruits & veggies & seed mixture. We tracked all of our birds weight. The pet food industry couldn't leave well enough alone & quite frankly they do to make $$. They aren't even really regulated. FDA tells them to be honest in their labeling. That's not regulated. Man maid vitamins are not better then natural vitamins. Everything is geared to convenience. I've read ingredients on pellets. Dyes, salt & added sugar. Sprouting is chock full of nutrients. Good for you. ❤❤
Thank you, that's great :) I hope they love it, sometimes they take to it straight away, other times they don't and mixing seed in can help them get a taste for it.
I made Chop, fresh always loves, frozen after thawing parrots do not eat, my recipes: carrots, melon, peppers, broccoli, oranges, grapes, peppers, is not my recipe caused by problems? Thank you!
Some parrots don't like it after it is frozen. Dory does eat it after it has been frozen and defrosted. Some more variety of vegetables in your recipe would be good, and a leafy green like kale for high calcium content is good too :)
When it's fresh, it will keep in the fridge for a few days. Less if you have really juicy fruits mixed in. You can freeze it, avoid using really watery foods as it can go soggy on defrosting. Some people add some rolled oats to their frozen chop to help absorb moisture. Once defrosted I would try to use it in one day.
Can you please answer? I really need a answer! My rabbit is now 3 months en he first just peed in his litter box but now not anymore. Can you please help me?
Hi there, at three months of age your rabbit is starting to mature, and his hormones will likely be going a little crazy because of it. Litter training can lapse at this time as you're seeing. He may return to good litter habits in a few months once his hormones have settled a little, however if it doesn't, the best way to help is to have him neutered as spayed and neutered rabbits are much easier to litter train. Un-neutered males are also quite likely to spray urine as well.
No,No Onions and Tomatoes.. I recommend,carrot for smaller birds especially Cockatiels(They love that) Macaws are more of Banana Fans! You can just buy some carrots and cucumbers and apples and make it out of those!
I wouldn't include zucchini. It has poisons in the skin that cause joint ache in both animals and humans. Summer squash or any other squash chopped up would be better.
Zucchini is considered a summer squash :) I can't find any resources mentioning a toxin in the skin causing joint pain. Thank you though for your concern, I have done a lot of resource and zucchini is always mentioned on every safe list. :)
*IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS:* The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seeds mixture" bought in pet stores or malls, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it's not so: indeed the birds health is at serious risk. The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, budgies, cockatiels, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seeds mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH BY FATTY LIVER DISEASE. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 7 years of age of the more than 15 that they can live. It's sad that pet birds are fated to die early and painfully in so many cases. You have to warn people to avoid it! This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can’t imagine that *THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF* that we provide to our birds, in which such *a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the birds usually prefer to eat the fatty seeds* so that their REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to pet birds. *Also the fruits and specially the breeding paste and its pigments and THE SUNFLOWER SEEDS ATTACK THE LIVER* if they are taken too much or for too long. It's a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when its unexpected symptoms begin, they are easily confused with other ailments so the owners usually postpone the visit to the vet at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive and misleading disease, even to administer lipotropic and regenerative liver protectors in curative doses, just in case it's that and not a supposed blow). It's a process of slow and asymptomatic progression, but when their visible symptoms begin (acute phase) the disease accelerates. *SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE:* First, overgrowth of beak and nails since months before, progressive sadness and/or pecking, hard belly (in many cases, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, which seems a "tumor", to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up his feathers or bends more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks or a few days, heavy breathing with open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" but it are twinges of pain of diseased liver), abundant greenish poop (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange purplish color of skin and beak, an excessive appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what the bird seems to ameliorate), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a "heart infarct" or a "stroke"). For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) vet action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seeds mixture (even if you give it fresh fruits, vegetables and let it exercise, for example by letting it out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and neither you nor your bird know. *Without liver protectors, it's almost certain that your bird will die early and in many cases you won’t be able to determine its real cause.* Hepatic lipidosis it's not only deadly by itself when the visible symptoms begin (sometimes even it does not warn at all until few moments before the death). Even before the acute phase it predisposes the bird to suffer infections, as it weakens the immune system. Obese pet birds have an higher risk of many other diseases, like arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Obesity in birds it's not so apparent but it's more dangerous than in other animals like mammals. So in addition to giving to the birds lipotropic and detox / regenerating hepatic protectors preventively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds. *PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT:* The time to act is NOW that your bird doesn’t show yet the visible symptoms. It's necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE LIVER DEGENERATION. Fortunately it's easy to do it: *It's very advisable to substitute progressively (within some weeks, as per the instructions of the manufacturer) the mixture of loose seeds for some pellets compound food of seeds, fruits and vegetables (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from filtering and eating mostly the fatty seeds (but without insisting if the bird does not get accustomed to eating pellets because he could die for starvation within a few days).* *And, whatever the diet, it's CRUCIAL to add to the drinking water or to the food LIPOTROPIC LIVER PROTECTORS that include carnitine and / or choline, betaine, methionine, etc., (and it's very convenient to add DETOX / REGENERATING LIVER PROTECTORS with thistle milk, boldo, artichoke extract).* Liver protectors are not medicine but cheap food supplements manufactured by pet bird vet laboratories that remove the fat from the liver, clean it and favor its recovery. It's essential to add them to the pet birds diet to conserve their liver. It's something that breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know. It are appearing in the market compound feed for pet birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. *But the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fatty seeds... And their birds continue dying for hepatic lipidosis in a large number of cases (likely, in most cases).* Now we know that, as fatty liver disease develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely *THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more so as the bird ages.* Webs on FLD: www.beautyofbirds.com/liverdisease.html Liver disease is a slow, on-going progressive disease where the liver tissue is replaced with fat. When the liver disease has progressed, the bird may suddenly appear ill. www.lovinghands.com/forms/Hepatic%20Lipidosis%20-%20Fatty%20Liver%20Disease.pdf One of the sadder diseases many avian vets see is that of hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver disease. It's sad in a number of ways since often the birds are very ill, life-threateningly so, or possibly having died suddenly. Often the owners have been unaware of the dangers of feeding their beloved pet the seeds, peanuts, or other fatty foods the bird obviously loves to eat. These are truly cases of "loving your bird to death". Any bird can fall victim to fatty liver disease. www.researchgate.net/publication/46105643_Treating_liver_disease_in_the_avian_patient Dietary deficiencies of lipotrophic factors such as choline, biotin, and methionine may decrease the transport of lipids from the liver. The clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could realize and in many cases they are not appreciated, progress in a silent way and when they are evident, vet action may arrive late. Most any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it was a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. We must closely investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that don’t harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from vets, breeders, etc. and procure the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird doesn’t improve, it's necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. It's necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient vet experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it's convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it’s better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered. A limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated ASAP. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest fat possible (only birdseed, or with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately... although nothing could foresee a fatal outcome. There are also food supplements protectors of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflets do not cause damage, it will surely save the life of your bird (if it's not too late), and will keep them with a basic wellness.
Michelle Jackson That's The way we found her when we rescued her. We have been working hard to get her to stop, she improves for few months and then has a random bad day and plucks all her regrowth.
@@PetLifewithBec Hi ..in my experience with eclectus they need quite place to protection , good variety of food and need a male it is something so important for eclectus parrots and I think all of birds.when bird plucking his feathers that is mean not happy . So please not left her without male ecky
This was probably one of the most helpful videos on chop that I've watched. Thank you.
Jannice G Thank you and no problem :)
Our Green Cheek Conure eats mostly seed (with occasional fruit and some human offerings. I realize this is far from ideal, so I'm glad I found your channel and how you prepare chop.
Just stumbled across your channel and holy crap am I glad. A channel from an Aussie about parrot chop and bunny basics. Heaven.
Thankyou for such a rad video, really want to try the mix you have used here for my birds as a bit of a different mix. Love it!
Thank you so very much, I really appreciate it :)
this video is exactly what i needed thank you!
Thanks! I'm so glad it's useful to you :)
I really love parrots! They like vegetables and being so wise.
Their spirituality and intelligence is definitely high
Thank you for your help.
Lots of great information. So helpful for me
Very interesting to me and think you did well,with the video.
Really nice routine and informative, thanks!
Thought this video was very helpful, very informative
Thank you, very helpful!❤️
Loved your video ! Krep them coming. I own 2 Meyers parrots and your video gave me some new ideas. Thank you.
This is a very helpful video. Making my first African grey CHOP. Going to try Kale, spinach, and broccoli, carrot and sweet potato along with bell peppers. Hopefully he will eat it.
Interesting information. I use to buy expensive parrot food that needed to be cooked at the bird store. I decided to make my own years ago and it has worked fairly well. Our parrot gets everything we eat at night time dinner. I discovered she loves pasta so now when I make her food, basically your chop, I add cooked spaghetti. I break it in to 2" lengths and cook it with an assortment of other types of pastas and veggies. I make about 100+ 1/3 cup servings and freeze it. The pasta is always the favorite part of her food. You add a couple of items I don't and now am excited to try zucchini being one.
Thank you. I loved this video. Extremely helpful. Keep them coming. Happy New Year.
i wasn't sure what "chop"was and your video was very informative. I like that you suggested other ingredients even though you weren't using them. I enjoyed watching you prepare the chop while explaining everything. Thank you so much..excellent video.
Thank you for the feedback :) I'm glad it was helpful to you.
Thank you as a new owner this is very helpful. What seeds do you recommend to add to the Chop and what kind of good Seed mix can I buy
Beautiful video thanks for all the info about what to feed the Eclectus,
Can we feed this chopped mix to any other birds or parrots...?
Yes, all parrots could have this
WOW!! That's so kewl to know!! I wish I could make my piggies food in Advance like that!! It's so hard on my Bad days to get Rocky fed LOL My Taz he only eats dried veggies so he's simple to feed no chopping required lol..Thanks to PetSmart and there cheap feeding to there piggies !! Adopt don't shop!! I feel so sorry for those piggies. In the pet stores!!! Thx for sharing take care hun Shared as always good luck on the 500!! Shey
Thanks so much :) It is very handy to be able to prepare it in advance, it certainly saves a lot of time and money I think doing it in big batches, and saves food going to waste if it doesn't get eaten in time.
Yes it does to bad I couldn't feed the piggies that way lol 😂
Hi! I only watched your video midway before I was compelled to post a comment about how informative you are and that you break everything down knowing that some food items aren’t known by the same name in other parts of the world. I appreciate this video and I am so happy that I came across it, thank you. It’s extremely apparent that you have a true love for your companion animals as you are so knowledgeable and it’s heartwarming that you went through so much effort to put this super helpful video together! Thanks for also offering tips about other vegetable/fruit options and providing information regarding their nutritional value. 😁 Now I will return to watching your video in its entirety. #subscribed
Wow, thank you so much for your in depth response, it's much appreciated. I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :)
Lovely video! Suggestion Ive started adding wheat grass powder for the benefits of 100% Vitamin A and the 25% Betacarotene the aroma gives it the draw:) and Dulce Flakes have a huge amount of Iodine and potassium. They love it!
I love this. Ill be adding this sort of mix to my rat ration cycle. Looks super healthy. Ur birds must be beautiful.
Dory knew she was headed to the right place when she found such an amazing new owner!
The Virtual Zookeeper Yes, thank you! 😁
Those knife skills though... Good job!
I have 2 budgies and 2 finches , could you please advice how many times in a week I can this soft food to my birds ?
Very good and nutritious food
Thank you for sharing I didn’t know they could eat fruit seeds as I seen you mixed that in. QU. 1 how long can you freeze the food for ? 2 after u defrost does it get mushy? 3 I missed the amount you save for each bag ?
Anna Anna Hello, if freezing it should last a long time. I was making up to 2 months worth at a time. Yes it can go mushy, that can depend on ingredients, more watery veg will go more mushy etc. Some people add rolled oats to the batch to absorb some of the moisture. I think the amount is about 1/3 cup per meal and i usually put 2 meals per bag.
Is this also good for cockatiels?
thank you very much. for me i prefer short videos with some written instructions
Just subscribed! Loved your video! Hope you reach 1,000 soon! I have been making chop for my birds for about 2 years now. I noticed that you didn't blanch any of your ingredients. I have always blanched - not sure why I started doing it. LOL Please tell me - does it hurt the nutrition of my chop because I blanch everything? Thank you!
Thank you so much, seems to be heading up to 1000 pretty quickly! :D I have never even thought to blanch ingredients, the only thing I do is lightly steam sweet potato when I use it. I have no idea if blanching hurts the nutrition, perhaps for some things but not for others. I honestly don't know the answer to that one.
Bunny Basics thank you so much for your time! 😃
No problem :)
Love your vids. I have a question don't eclutis (can't spell) eat different diets that other parrot
Thank you. Yes they do, they need to have no seed and pellets aren't recommended for them either. Fresh vegetables, fruit and sprouts are the recommended diet for eclectus. That being said high seed diets aren't good for other parrots either because the seeds are all very fatty and can lead to fatty liver disease. So a wide variety of fresh veg and fruit is recommended for any parrot.
@@PetLifewithBec ok thank I was just wondering because I am getting a amazon well it is actually my dad's but I was trying to research and stuff like that
Please let me know how many times in a day to offer this chop to my cocateil.
Maybe you could make your own foraging toy out of romaine lettuce? Kind of like how some people replace wraps and buns with romaine 😂 I don't know how it would be done, but I see a video on how to make foraging toys out of paper. Maybe that could inspire something?
Hi thanks Bunny
Hello. I should prepare it for my budgies. Can you briefly explain it to me? English is not my native language... I can chop veggies, add there sproutes seeds and legumes, beans... mix it and serve it? The rest can stay in a refrigerator for a few days? And need not be heated then? How do you recommend me to sprout legumes and beans to stay away from the risk of getting mold there? Thank you. P:S: you have a nice parrot.
Thank you. Not all beans are safe to sprout, I only sprout mung beans and adzuki beans. Chop it, mix it together with the sprouts. You can keep it in the refrigerator for a few days, but I freeze most of mine in containers that hold 2 days of food. When I sprout seeds and the small beans, I rinse them water. Soak them in water for 12-24 hours. Rinse them again and drain the water. I rinse my sprouts at least twice a day until they are sprouting and then put them in the fridge until I have used them up. I hope that helps. Sorry for the late response, I wasn't notified of your comment.
do you feed her the same mix in the evening or do you make another one and do you make this for the week and leave it in the freezer? i dont have a parrot i would like one im gathering all the info i can get before thinking to get one
Hi there :) I don't feed the same mix in the evening, no. This is just for breakfast. Then in the evening she gets whole or large chunks of vegetables, such as large pieces of capsicum, half a kiwi fruit, corn on the cob etc. I find that making the chop mix allows me to better provide a large number of different vegetables every day, rather than preparing individual meals every day. I make this for about 40 days worth, I divide it into containers that holds 2 serves of food (so it lasts 2 days) and just remove a container from the freezer as needed.
Do you have any other recipes that you use?
I also make the same but sometimes half cook for a change in taste for the bird
When feeding chop do you have to clean her cage once a day?
No, I only clean her cage once a week, sometimes twice. It you don't have barriers it can end up all over the wall and it is easier to wipe that off when it's fresh. But I do clean her bowl every time I feed her.
Thank you so much. I use to feed fresh veggies but stopped because I thought it would put more bacteria in the cages. I'll start feeding chop again now that I know I can store it in the freezer 😊 I have a female eclectus named Ori and a male blue wing macaw named Nero. Thank you for the content😊
@@michellewood68 No problem. I find of course it's more of a problem in summer because of the heat and then I do tend to clean the catch tray below her bowl more often, but I'm not cleaning the whole cage more frequently.
Does your parrot have runny poop? Or is it not runny because of different diet?
It's slightly runny, but that's how it's meant to be. If it's completely watery that's a sign of illness.
Do you give pellets too? Or no on the pellets?
I used to, but not anymore. I have changed to feeding fruits and vegetables in the morning and evening, and a variety of sprouts for lunch.
@@PetLifewithBec
There you go. In the 60's, 70's & 80's we didn't have pellets. We fed fruits & veggies & seed mixture. We tracked all of our birds weight. The pet food industry couldn't leave well enough alone & quite frankly they do to make $$. They aren't even really regulated. FDA tells them to be honest in their labeling. That's not regulated. Man maid vitamins are not better then natural vitamins. Everything is geared to convenience. I've read ingredients on pellets. Dyes, salt & added sugar. Sprouting is chock full of nutrients. Good for you. ❤❤
Hi there is that 1 bag for a whole day?
Yes, 1 bag for a day.
good vid, plan to make my budgies a chop
Thank you, that's great :) I hope they love it, sometimes they take to it straight away, other times they don't and mixing seed in can help them get a taste for it.
Isn't parsley toxic to them?
I made Chop, fresh always loves, frozen after thawing parrots do not eat, my recipes: carrots, melon, peppers, broccoli, oranges, grapes, peppers, is not my recipe caused by problems? Thank you!
Some parrots don't like it after it is frozen. Dory does eat it after it has been frozen and defrosted. Some more variety of vegetables in your recipe would be good, and a leafy green like kale for high calcium content is good too :)
Thank you~It seems that I still insist on preparing fresh fruits and vegetables every day
How long can it b stored and how to store it??
When it's fresh, it will keep in the fridge for a few days. Less if you have really juicy fruits mixed in. You can freeze it, avoid using really watery foods as it can go soggy on defrosting. Some people add some rolled oats to their frozen chop to help absorb moisture. Once defrosted I would try to use it in one day.
Can you freeze this to make it last over a period of time?
Quinn Abbott I've heard people recommend making portions and freeze in ice cube trays!
for the squash was that raw? or cooked
little pet kingdome Yes I use everything raw except for sweet potato.
do you freeze this
Love the recipe, but go easy on the kale. It’s very high in oxalic acid which can lead to kidney stones.
MORE BIRD VIDEOS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you please answer? I really need a answer! My rabbit is now 3 months en he first just peed in his litter box but now not anymore. Can you please help me?
Hi there, at three months of age your rabbit is starting to mature, and his hormones will likely be going a little crazy because of it. Litter training can lapse at this time as you're seeing. He may return to good litter habits in a few months once his hormones have settled a little, however if it doesn't, the best way to help is to have him neutered as spayed and neutered rabbits are much easier to litter train. Un-neutered males are also quite likely to spray urine as well.
Bunny Basics Thank you so so much!!
Floortje Poppelaars You're welcome :)
Floortje Poppelaars he may be sick or agrivated with change
Are cucumbers,tomatoes and onions good or bad for parrots🤔
No to tomatoes and onions
No,No Onions and Tomatoes..
I recommend,carrot for smaller birds especially Cockatiels(They love that)
Macaws are more of Banana Fans!
You can just buy some carrots and cucumbers and apples and make it out of those!
Is it for any parrot ? I have 2 African greys
Yes, a chop mix like this would be great for greys too :)
Can this be used for budgies? Maybe just smaller pieces?
Can budgies eat chop?
Yes, absolutely :)
All parrots/birds can eat chop!
Is broccoli seen as a Leafy green..I know it’s green
No it's not, I would feed it more like a treat food, not all buns tolerate it well, can cause gas.
I wouldn't include zucchini. It has poisons in the skin that cause joint ache in both animals and humans. Summer squash or any other squash chopped up would be better.
Zucchini is considered a summer squash :) I can't find any resources mentioning a toxin in the skin causing joint pain. Thank you though for your concern, I have done a lot of resource and zucchini is always mentioned on every safe list. :)
*IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS:* The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seeds mixture" bought in pet stores or malls, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it's not so: indeed the birds health is at serious risk.
The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, budgies, cockatiels, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seeds mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH BY FATTY LIVER DISEASE. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 7 years of age of the more than 15 that they can live.
It's sad that pet birds are fated to die early and painfully in so many cases. You have to warn people to avoid it!
This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can’t imagine that *THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF* that we provide to our birds, in which such *a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the birds usually prefer to eat the fatty seeds* so that their REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to pet birds.
*Also the fruits and specially the breeding paste and its pigments and THE SUNFLOWER SEEDS ATTACK THE LIVER* if they are taken too much or for too long.
It's a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when its unexpected symptoms begin, they are easily confused with other ailments so the owners usually postpone the visit to the vet at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive and misleading disease, even to administer lipotropic and regenerative liver protectors in curative doses, just in case it's that and not a supposed blow). It's a process of slow and asymptomatic progression, but when their visible symptoms begin (acute phase) the disease accelerates.
*SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE:* First, overgrowth of beak and nails since months before, progressive sadness and/or pecking, hard belly (in many cases, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, which seems a "tumor", to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up his feathers or bends more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks or a few days, heavy breathing with open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" but it are twinges of pain of diseased liver), abundant greenish poop (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange purplish color of skin and beak, an excessive appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what the bird seems to ameliorate), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a "heart infarct" or a "stroke").
For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) vet action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seeds mixture (even if you give it fresh fruits, vegetables and let it exercise, for example by letting it out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and neither you nor your bird know. *Without liver protectors, it's almost certain that your bird will die early and in many cases you won’t be able to determine its real cause.*
Hepatic lipidosis it's not only deadly by itself when the visible symptoms begin (sometimes even it does not warn at all until few moments before the death). Even before the acute phase it predisposes the bird to suffer infections, as it weakens the immune system. Obese pet birds have an higher risk of many other diseases, like arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Obesity in birds it's not so apparent but it's more dangerous than in other animals like mammals.
So in addition to giving to the birds lipotropic and detox / regenerating hepatic protectors preventively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds.
*PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT:* The time to act is NOW that your bird doesn’t show yet the visible symptoms. It's necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE LIVER DEGENERATION. Fortunately it's easy to do it: *It's very advisable to substitute progressively (within some weeks, as per the instructions of the manufacturer) the mixture of loose seeds for some pellets compound food of seeds, fruits and vegetables (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from filtering and eating mostly the fatty seeds (but without insisting if the bird does not get accustomed to eating pellets because he could die for starvation within a few days).*
*And, whatever the diet, it's CRUCIAL to add to the drinking water or to the food LIPOTROPIC LIVER PROTECTORS that include carnitine and / or choline, betaine, methionine, etc., (and it's very convenient to add DETOX / REGENERATING LIVER PROTECTORS with thistle milk, boldo, artichoke extract).*
Liver protectors are not medicine but cheap food supplements manufactured by pet bird vet laboratories that remove the fat from the liver, clean it and favor its recovery. It's essential to add them to the pet birds diet to conserve their liver. It's something that breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know.
It are appearing in the market compound feed for pet birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. *But the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fatty seeds... And their birds continue dying for hepatic lipidosis in a large number of cases (likely, in most cases).* Now we know that, as fatty liver disease develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely *THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more so as the bird ages.*
Webs on FLD:
www.beautyofbirds.com/liverdisease.html
Liver disease is a slow, on-going progressive disease where the liver tissue is replaced with fat. When the liver disease has progressed, the bird may suddenly appear ill.
www.lovinghands.com/forms/Hepatic%20Lipidosis%20-%20Fatty%20Liver%20Disease.pdf One of the sadder diseases many avian vets see is that of hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver disease. It's sad in a number of ways since often the birds are very ill, life-threateningly so, or possibly having died suddenly. Often the owners have been unaware of the dangers of feeding their beloved pet the seeds, peanuts, or other fatty foods the bird obviously loves to eat. These are truly cases of "loving your bird to death". Any bird can fall victim to fatty liver disease.
www.researchgate.net/publication/46105643_Treating_liver_disease_in_the_avian_patient Dietary deficiencies of lipotrophic factors such as choline, biotin, and methionine may decrease the transport of lipids from the liver.
The clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could realize and in many cases they are not appreciated, progress in a silent way and when they are evident, vet action may arrive late.
Most any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it was a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. We must closely investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that don’t harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from vets, breeders, etc. and procure the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird doesn’t improve, it's necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. It's necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient vet experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it's convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it’s better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered.
A limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated ASAP. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest fat possible (only birdseed, or with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately... although nothing could foresee a fatal outcome. There are also food supplements protectors of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflets do not cause damage, it will surely save the life of your bird (if it's not too late), and will keep them with a basic wellness.
How to make bird food white rice i have baby Quail
Qaisar Sohail Hello, I've never used rice in her food so am not sure how to prepare it. I also don't know how suitable rice is for baby quail.
fahmi.
i dont even have a parrot....
That doesn't matter, I watch all sorts of pet videos for pets I don't even own :D
Why is your poor beautiful parrot plucking her feathers around her neck? Poor baby!
Michelle Jackson That's The way we found her when we rescued her. We have been working hard to get her to stop, she improves for few months and then has a random bad day and plucks all her regrowth.
@@PetLifewithBec Hi ..in my experience with eclectus they need quite place to protection , good variety of food and need a male it is something so important for eclectus parrots and I think all of birds.when bird plucking his feathers that is mean not happy .
So please not left her without male ecky