CAG diet - what do you feed yours?

[xafsmom]

I'm working against the sunflower seed addiction with Izzy. I have my conures diet down to a science lol, but Izzy's a bit different and I want to give him the best I can right off.

I have Zupreme medium chunk pellets for a base. I mix it with Goldenfeast central american preservation II blend, add in a handful of spinach pasta (dry) just for a bit of crunch, and some dried 'veggie wedgies'.

For soft food, I have a bean/rice mix, as well as beak appetit selections.

He loves fresh carrots, but turns down pretty much all other fresh veggies and fruits still. We're working on it.

My question is this: Should I be giving him more seed and what type? Is there anything I should introduce or omit from his dry food?

Finally, what do YOU guys regularly feed your AG's? Please post here, so I can steal ideas blatantly lol.

[r2rusmc]

Well depending on the phase of the moon, wind speed and direction and the ambient temperature in the front right corner of the house, my flesh and blood.

When not happily consuming that Tutu gets a variety of fruity pellets, does not like the natural pellets in any variety. Also gets a healthy serving of whatever the humans are eating.

Nightly goodie bowl includes two in shell almonds, allspice, cloves, cinnamon stick, fennel, anise, rosemary, bee pollen, dried peppers, star anise, cilantro, mint leaves, crushed red pepper, corriander and usually add in a piece of dried blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, apricots, whole figs, dates, papaya, cranberries, raisen, dried cherries or coconut.

Once the fresh produce is freshly available (read: roadside stands, dirt cheap prices) they get mostly fresh stuff in the goodie bowl. Frozen the rest of the year. I just don't think that hydroponically grown produce is as tasty or as healthy as food grown under the sun.

I make a 15 bean mix. Cooked 7 grain rolled flake cereals. Harvest soup mixes. Pasta cooked and uncooked.

Fresh sprouts. Tutu really likes quinoa sprouted between 18 and 24 hours. I have some other sprouting mixes that he'll eat too.

Did I mention the favorite as being my flesh and blood? Tutu doesn't bite men, only women.

Except for the nightly goodie bowl, the other stuff is usually given on the perches.

When Tutu came to me, he was on a grocery store sunflower seed mix with the occasional people food thrown in. Oh and for vitamins his previous owner fed him fruity pebbles softened in milk. He now gets Nekton-S supplement in his water.

Tutu has always been referred to as a male but it hasn't been verified. Behaviors and physical signs suggest female.