Thank you for sharing your opinion on corn. I love it and will keep eating it until the cows come home.Corn is NOT a vegetable. It also offers very little in way of nutrients, and is high in sugars and starch. We are kind of tricked into thinking corn is good for us by the food companies. It is a filler at best. I avoid it where I can. I made birdy bread without corn meal and it turned out great!
Think about it. There is corn in their seed mix, treats, pellets, birdy bread, and many feed it fresh. Do they eat it in the wild, or something similar in nutritional values? Nope.
Yuri gets it in his pellets, and I pick out what I can from his seed. I will never feed him fresh corn either. I won't eat corn either. It's just sooooo bad for you, and you feel like your eating a vegetable but its just a grain.
Thank you for sharing your opinion on corn. I love it and will keep eating it until the cows come home.
I've noticed that the recipe doesn't say if the egg is raw or hard boiled when put in with the other ingredients?I give Oliver birdie bread every morning and veggie mash every evening. The bird bread I make is not using the jiffy mix, so there is no corn. I use this recipe: http://www.lineolatedparakeet.net/recipe/shandis-birdie-bread_486 . You could even use something else instead of whole wheat flour, like Barley flour to change it up. It is easy to make and I just scoop tsp size portions onto a cookie sheet, freeze them in weekly portions, and take them out as needed. I think this makes 48 pieces for me depending on how many veggies I add. It is far more veggies than anything else and Oliver doesn't consume the whole thing, he rips it up and forages for the stuff inside. It also has crushed pellets.
Oliver gets 2 tbsp seed/pellet mixed & 1 large tsp sized birdie bread during the day and a 1 tbsp of veggie mash in the evening. I do this because I think the mash is too moist to leave out all day, it is more likely to go bad. He has gotten used to his routine and pretty much eats about 85% of all of this in a day.
Birds do actually need grains in their diet. Corn is not the best choice of grain, but it is still a grain and their is no harm in offering it from time to time. Just like fruit such as bananas and grapes, they are also not the best choice either because they also have high sugar and low nutrients in comparison to mango for example. But it doesn't mean it can't be offered every now and then. Birds love fresh corn. Grains in pet food products have gotten a bad rap because they were infested with bugs and mold--just poor quality. But fresh, store bought is nice for a treat every now and then.
There have been times where I used egg food instead but yeah, they other times I put it raw because just like a cake or something, it will get cooked in the oven.I've noticed that the recipe doesn't say if the egg is raw or hard boiled when put in with the other ingredients?
