Meal Times

sharpey07

Regular Member
Hi Guys I was just wondering if i could pick your brains. 

What do people do about feeding their birds Do you have kinda set meal times where you put the food in for a certain amount of time and then remove the food. Or do you put the food in and leave it and replenish it at different times. 

I have found with Frisco (I maybe should have asked earlier) that she likes to graze through out the day and early evening taking little bits from the seed pot then leaving it alone and going to the fresh food pot then playing for a while and then eating and stuff. She tends to feed again around early evening before settling down for the night. The fresh food pot i tend to keep putting fresh stuff in at regular times and i change the seed in the pot when needed.

The crux of the matter really is should i put the food in for an hour or so then remove the pots or leave them in???

If you could let me know what your feeding routines are that would be a great help.
 
Th only pot I remove for a hour or so is the veggy dishes. I then change then with other veggies
 
Ours get seed and pellets in one bowl, fruit and veg in another put in first thing in a morning.

Lunch time cooked food ie pasta, rice or whatever which they eat most of.

4pm we remove seed and pellets clean out the cages and only leave fruit and veg in which stays all night until am when it all starts again!!
 
i feed fruits for breakfast in seperate bowls as5 and water of course

remove fruits lunchtime and fill bowls with veggies

remove veggies about 5ish and fill up bowl with as5 and change water
 
Usually mine get freshly sprouted seeds/beans/pulses first thing in the morning and sometimes toast with palm fruit extract spread on it while toast is still warm. Sometimes they get cooked pulses/beans. Sometimes they get scrambled egg with sweet corn and red pepper through it. I change their water in the morning too.  I leave them to eat their breakfast and then let them out of their cages. I leave the breakfast in their bowls as they do tend to graze throughout the morning. They always have a bowl of AS5 seed mix in their cage and that is changed every couple of days unless someone has left an unwanted package in the bowl. They tend to eat the AS5 as a supplement but prefer their fresh food. They get fresh fruit and veg to share put out around lunchtime, which they eat, play with, pick at, or destroy before they take their usual siesta from 1pm to 4pm. I remove their breakfast bowls when I put in the fresh fruit/veg. They get nuts (pine nuts, cashews, almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans etc) as a treat/reward after doing their exercise/training (I basically have them dancing, moving from one side of the room to the other, flying about the room and/or house - anything that gets them moving and it stimulates their mind, they enjoy their training/exercise and especially enjoy their treat/reward). They get their dinner about 6pm usually something cooked like homemade mash with butternut squash, carrots, sweet potato, the occasional cooked chicken bone with bits of meat, parrot safe foods that we are eating for dinner, ie homemade rice/pasta without salt, freshly cooked veg/sauces without salt. I change their water at this point too. After they eat their dinner they are out again until just before bedtime. I remove the dinner bowls and replace it with fresh fruit like blueberries, apple, grapes, pomegranate - just a few of each which they nibble on just before going to bed. When they are finished they go to their sleepy perches and we do the cover up sleepy time routine. Fresh fruit is left in their bowl overnight, which sometimes they take one or two pieces first thing in the morning upon waking before I remove the bowl and before breakfast arrives.
 
Mine come out first thing in the morning and are hand fed toast with palm fruit extract on, they love their toast and giving it to them by hand gives me the opera unity to have a wee look at the, check their health, nares, bottoms, just a general health check lol


I then give them fruit, fresh veg or scrambled egg, pulses etc. with daily essentials 3 on and they eat that in their cages.


On warm days/summer I only leave fresh foods in for about two hours as it goes off quicker in the warmer months, when it's colder like now I leave it in for roughly 3-4 hours unless they've finished which usually is the case, later in the day they get their warm foods, pasta, warm veg, meat etc.


They always have food in their bowls but I don't give seed until evening time apart from the Kizzy and Candy, they have seed available all the time.


Obviously that's not everything I feed as my hobbits meals change daily as I cook for them a selection of tasty, healthy meals all the time, mine are a wee bit spoilt lol


Sundays is fun day, and that's the one day a week they get seed all day in their cages, but they still get the other healthy meals, as you can guess they seem to devour the seeds throughout the day and enjoy more treats because as a rule I only give treats when training, if they've been especially good or as a last resort to bribe them lol


Julie


Julie
 
Thank you all for your great advice once again. I seem to be doing a similar thing to Liz but Frisco has seed not pellets. I normally have seed in all day and she get some fruit or soaking mix in a morning then i change it again at tea time for something cooked or fresh veggies, I have found though that Frisco doesn't seem to take to the cooked food specially if i put flavour into it but she does like peas and sweetcorn.
 
Sharpey keep trying the different things as their taste changes, eg Miss Rambo and Fergus have gone right off grapes this month where as last month they were eaten completely... :dntknw:
 
I put Edwin's fruit / veg mix  in a dish plus a small amount of tidymix in another dish in his cage and they stay there until I get in. I am out during the day so can't change dishes.  I also place fruit and veg in a dish on a play stand as he is out during the day so he can graze where he likes. I take out the fruit and veg early evening or if summer as soon as I get in but leave the tidymix until next morning when it gets changed.
 
I have a routine, but it's more for my benefit that theirs!

In the morning before work they get some seed, pellets, a skewer of veg/fruit and foraging nuts in thier cage.

In the evening they get cooked veg, pulses, ground pellet and palm extract all mixed together.

They get some sunflower seeds as treats in the evening as well.

One of my birds is a real foodie and needs to have access to food all the time. He will regularly come and find me to see if I will give him a snack! If I take the food bowls away he will shriek and follow me until more food is provided.

At the weekends I give them some muesli with natural yoghurt. Occasionally they get scrambled egg or the Hawian sweet noodles from Scarletts.
 
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