Miscellaneous

 

 

 

 

 

Top      Home  Back

 

 


 

 


Tiny Rascals Aviary Avian Nutrition

Balance - is the key word for a Nutritiously Healthy Parrot.

Recipes

Mashes  Vegetable / FRUIT Dishes  Bean and Seed Mixes  Eggfoods 

Breakfast Foods  Breads and Muffins  Miscellaneous

Mashes

Sweet Rice Mash

Our guys LOVE this!

4 coarsley grated sweet potatoes

2 bags brown rice

1 can carrot juice

1 cup  baked beans

1 bag small shell pasta

Boil rice using carrot juice added to the water until almost done.  Add in sweet potatoes and pasta (adding a litte more water if needed, just enought to keep from sticking - you want it to fully asorb). Stir often.  Add in rinsed baked beans, stir some more.  Divide up into an ice cube tray or freezer bags and take out as needed each day.

 

 

 

 

Vegetable / Fruit Dishes

 

Sweet Potato Balls

Blue  & gold macaws, hahns macaws, poicephalus, linnies, tiels, conures, it seems as if most all birds enjoy this recipe.  You can add just about anything to this basic mix and birds seem to love them.   Peanut butter, oatmeal, coconut or any fruit or vegetables are some examples.

 

1 large sweet potato, microwaved or cooked until soft

1/2 cup raisins

1 mashed banana

1 cup mixed fresh or frozen mixed vegetables

1 cup diced apples

1 1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal, corn flakes or low sugar granola cereal.

Mix all together and add enough fruit or vegetable juice to make it form small balls. Freeze balls individually.  Defrost and serve.

 

Apple Delight

  • 4 small apples

  • 2 tbl.s wheat germ

  • 2 tbl.s raisins

  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon

  • 1/4 c. chopped pine nuts

  • 1 c. thawed frozen apple juice concentrate

  • Avian vitamins

    • Core apples. Put apples in baking dish after spraying with non-stick coating. Do not use teflon. It gives off harmful fumes that could kill your birds. Combine wheat germ, raisins, cinnamon, pine nuts, and vitamins. Fill center of apples with this mixture. Drizzle juice over apples. Bake about 45 minutes.

     

     

     

     

    Bean and Seed Mixes

    Bean / Grain Pasta Mix

    2 cups unpopped popcorn
    ½ cup red beans
    ½ cup white beans
    ½ cup garbonzos
    ½ cup dried peas
    ½ cup mixed rice and barley
    ½ cup pasta of your bird's choice
    1 cup diced fresh carrot
    Soak popcorn two days, and beans and peas for one day, changing the soak water every eight hours.
    Cook popcorn for one hour in LOTS of water in a BIG covered pot.
    Add beans and peas, cook for 15 minutes.
    Add rice/barley, cook for ten minutes. Add pasta and carrots, cook five minutes.
    Drain, cool, bag and freeze. Serves hundreds.
    Everything stays sort of semi-hard. I found that they don't like it if it turns out too mushy, (like canned beans). Sometimes I dress it up with other veggies, add peppers to the pot or change the pasta types. And each bird has favorites in the mix, but generally they all eat most of it.

    Bean Mix

    Cook 2 cups brown rice in 4 cups water
    Cook 1 package (16 oz.) 16 bean soup mix minus the flavor packet, drain
    Cook 1 package (16 oz.) multi-colored pasta, drain
    Mix all this together with 3 to 5 pounds of thawed frozen mixed vegetables

    Freeze in ice cube trays for individual servings or in small freezer bags for larger servings.
    You may want to cut this recipe in half if you have less than 5 birds.

    Eggfoods:

    Canary "egg food"

    1 hard boiled egg

    1 small grated carrot

    2 slices of whole wheat or mulit grain bread

    2 tbsp of rolled oats

    1 tsp of powdered cutlebone (or calciboost) finely crushed egg shell

    1 tsp of vitamin powder

    1/2 tsp poppy seed

    1 tsp honey

    1/2 tsp wheat germ oil (I used olive oil)

    *Dry the bread crumbs and egg shell in the oven at 200'

    *grind the bread and egg shell and oatmeal until fine *place egg shell and bread crumbs with other dry ingedients *combine carrot and egg, mix all ingredients together until fine *add the oil and honey *should be nice and moist and crumbly

    can be kept in fridge for 4 days or frozen in ice cube tray

    Enjoy!

    Trish

     

     

     

     

    Breakfast Foods:

    Sweet Potato Pancakes

    2 large Sweet Potatoes (bakes or microwaved)

    2 eggs with Shells in food processor

    whole wheat flour

    1 cup corn meal

    Mash the sweet potato and form into patties, dip them in whole wheat flour, coat in the eggs mixture and then in the corn meal.  Coat a pan with cooking spray and cook over medium heat for about 3-4 minutes each side.

     

    Quinoa Breakfast of Champions"

    Quinoa (pronounced "keen-nwa") is a South American grain that is high in protein, calcium, and phosphorous. Probably the most nutritious grain in the world, it is an excellent food for parrots, either sprouted and served raw, or cooked, as in this recipe. It is available in most health food stores as a bulk grain.

    1 cup quinoa
    2-3 cups water
    Corn kernels
    Chopped carrots
    Raisins and/or dried apples (unsulphured, found in health food stores)
    Cinnamon stick

    Boil 2 cups of water, add quinoa. Cook for 10 minutes, then add veggies and dried fruit. Cook another 5 minutes or until the quinoa grain is clearish and has a tiny tail sprouting from it.  You may have to add a little more water if it gets too dry too quickly.  Let cool. Serve.  You can put almost any veggies or fruits in this recipe.

    Eight Grain Cereal

  • 1 part oats

  • 1 part brown rice

  • 1 part corn

  • 1 part soybeans

  • 1 part hulled millet

  • 1 part barley

  • 1 part sunflower

  • 1 part flaxseed

  • Avian vitamins

    • Mix all grains together. Heat three cups boiling water and add one cup mixture. Cook until the consistency of oatmeal. This can be added to some of your corn bread recipes! Sprinkle avian vitamins over cereal.

    Breads and Muffins

    TINY'S HEALTHY YUM BREAD

    - Right some Good!

    1 cup cornmeal

    1/2 cup multi-grain flour

    1/2 cup rye flour

    1/2 cup oats

    1/2 cup Cream of Rice

    2 tsp baking powder

    1/2 cup almond butter or organic chunky peanut butter

    1/2 cup mixed dried fruit

    1 jar baby foods, (1 carrots, 2 sweet potatoes, 1 applesause)

    1/4 cup grated cheddar cheese

    1 large carrot, chopped

    1 cup chopped broccoli

    2 eggs with shells (washed well)

    1 cup puffed brown rice cereal

    Carrot juice

    Preheat oven to 375 F

    Chop carrots and broccoli in a food processor until finely chopped.  Add eggs and shells and process for 30 seconds.  Mix all the remaining ingredients together, adding juice as needed to make an easily spread consistency.  Spread in a well greased and floured 9 x 13 pan and bake for 30-40 minutes or until done.

    SUBSTITUTION TIP:  You can substitute kasha cereal for the puffed brown rice cereal.  You can add any kind of juice.

    PARROT BREAD

    1/2 cup vegetable oil or safflower oil

    6 large eggs with shells (washed well)

    2-4 tbs canned pumpkin (I personally use the whole can and increase ingredients accordingly- I also use very little if any oil)

    2 tbs applesauce

    1/2 cup of frozen vegetables

    1/2 cup cooked lima or pinto beans

    1/2 cup cooked brown rice

    1/2 cup apple juice or any type

    2 cups cornmeal

    1 cup kamut flour

    3-4 tbs baking powder (non aluminum)

    1/2 cup millet

    1/2 cup pellets

    1/2 cup wheatgerm oil

    1 very ripe mashed banana, mashed

    Preheat oven to 350 F

    Mix the millet, pellets, wheat germ oil, vegetable oil, banana, in a food processor until they become finely blended.  Add the eggs, pumpkin, applesauce and continue to blend.  Add the beans and rice and lightly mix. Pour into large bowl and add cornmeal, flour and baking powder.  Add juice if needed.  Mix until all ingredients are well blended and has the consistency of cornbread.  Pour into 9 x 13 greased/floured pan.  Bake 30-40 minutes or until done.  Serve warm with vitamins, minerals sprinkled on top. 

    CORNBREAD DELUXE

    3 cups cornmeal

    1 large can pumpkin

    1 egg

    2 cups frozen veggies

    Mix together.  Will be crumbly.  Bake at 350 for approx 45 minutes in 9 x 13 pan.  Be inventive and add soaked raisins, shredded carrots, soaked currents, nuts, cooked rice. 

    HOME MADE PARROT MUFFINS

    • 2 cups Corn Meal Flour

    • 2 cups Whole Wheat Flour (can substitite  with 7 grain, kamut, spelt, rice, bean flour, etc.)

    • 1 tablespoon Baking Powder

    • 3 eggs (with shells mushed in very small pieces)

    • 1 cooked & peeled sweet potato/yam mashed

    • 1 whole banana mashed

    • 1/2 cup red kidney beans mashed,

    • 2 cups fresh veggies/fruit chopped finely in a food processor (I normally use: broccoli, string beans, various berries, cranberries, kale, red peppers, whatever's at home)

    • 4 tablespoons peanut butter

    • 1/2 cup of chopped nuts (sunflower seeds, hulled millet, pecans, walnuts, etc)

    Optional:  2 jars of baby food (veggie or fruit only)  - Helps keep them moist

    Mix all ingredients and bake at 350 for 30-45 minutes (keep a watch on them that they do not burn).  You can substitute veggies to whatever is in your house.  Can use frozen veggies to substitute for fresh. - Be Creative and have fun with it!  

    Yield: 24 Muffins

    • HIGH PROTEIN BREAD

    6 oz. breeder pellets. (Weigh out.)
    2 cups cooked beans (kidney, lentils, garbanzo, etc)
    ½ cup whole-wheat flour
    ½ cup flour (regular flour)
    3 eggs plus shells
    ½ cup cornmeal
    ½ cup raw carrots, chopped in blender
    ½ cup shelled sunflower seeds
    ½ cup veg. oil
    Cover pellets with hot water to soften. Mash.
    Add all dry ingredients to pellets. Blend well.
    Puree beans, eggs, and carrots in food processor or blender. Stir into dry ingredients to make a thick batter. Add water as needed but it will be thick not pourable.
    Bake at 45-50 min.
    Cool in pans on wire racks. Cut into pieces. I freeze individual servings in baggies and thaw as needed.

    Vegetable-rich Bread

    Substitute equal amounts of soaked maintenance pellets and cooked veggies.
    Carrots, broccoli, yams, squash instead of the beans. Prepare as above.
    I always use Vitamin A rich veggies in this bread. Hope your birds enjoy it!