New Food = happy Bird

[gbird]

Went to the market today and bought (for the bird) oranges, banana chips, red, orange & green peppers, broccolli flowers (tops).....he has never had these before...the fave....Oranges...LOVED THEM!!! Liked the orange pepper as well.....he has discovered a whole new world of food....LOL

Question....when you guys give your birds oranges, do you cut them up in little pieces? Take the peel off? Just give them a big wedge?

[Valo's Moirana]

i give valo parts of an orange slice every now and then since he gets orange juice too and it makes his poop a little watery
i take the peel off completely

[gbird]

Are you back???

[Valo's Moirana]

nope... still in austria, just got a chance to get online....
HAPPY NEWYEARS

[gbird]

Happy New Years to you & Hunter.
xo When will you be back, and what time & day is it over there...lol

[Valo's Moirana]

we´ll be back on jan 6.... 2007 is already 2hrs old... got through the transition without any major issues
hunter says hi too...

we miss the fids

[The Outlaw]

Just a word of caution: if you feed pellets, do not feed citrus. It interfers with vitamin uptake, I believe.

[Tashk]

And I've always been under the impression that you shouldn't feed your birds citrus too often, like, maybe only twice a week, because it might dry out their skin.
True or False?

[cfulhage]

I'm under the impression that citrus is a total no-no...

[Monica]

re: The Healthy Bird Cookbook

Oranges
This is a good source of vitamin C. Frozen, undiluted concentrate can be used for cooking and contains the highest amount of potassium and vitamin C.


I think it's good to feed! Maybe sparingly, but good nevertheless! When I feed oranges (pretty rare now a days), I normally just cut a slice of orange, with peel, and gave it to Noel and Casey.... they'd eat what they wanted and leave the peel. I never really did give it to the little guys often, as most times they couldn't figure out how to eat the orange or weren't interested...