What's your feeding schedule?

[Boshia]

What do you feed your fid for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I was thinking of leaving pellets in the food bowl, and feed her whatever fruits and veggies when she's out of the cage, and seeds for training. Oatmeal from a spoon once a week. What do you do for your fid, as in the feeding schedule?

[tielfan]

My birds have an all-day buffet. The most desirable items disappear early, but there's a variety to choose from at all times.

[LovelySydney]

LOL oh boy I spoil my boys. Pellets and a little seed is left all day. Not too much but enough for them to eat if they'd like it. In the morning its peaches, blueberries & raspberries, mixed with some seed. For lunch its usually some tomatoes and greens of some sort. Dinner always changes. Different veggies, some pastas & rice, etc.

I like leaving the pellets all day because its like their old standby, they can have it whenever they want!

[maggy]

Dusty has two bowls at brecky time, one has a mix of pellets, pumpkin seeds and a teaspoon of budgie seed (more for entertainment) all this adds up to about one tablespoon of food. Also a bowl of sprouted seeds about two tablespoons. A fruit/vege spike, and a small bundle of snowpeas tied on the bars. There are pine nuts, almonds in shell and human grade peanuts hidden in the toys about the cage. Lunch she loses the sprouts and "helps" me with my lunch. Evening meal she gets a fresh bowl of sprouts (about a desertspoon) and a desert spoon of mixed vegies, plus a bit of whatever is on my plate thats suitable, usually vegies and some kind of bone. If I can't share she gets a tiny piece of cheese or some boiled egg to keep up the protein. She has two drops of wheatgerm oil in with her cooked vegies. On Fridays we eat garbage (the only day we do) and all the animals have airpopped popcorn after their evening meal as a treat, we have take away and red wine..yum! I also put green leafy weeds, flowers, buds and fruits from my native garden in her cage when I go to work as entertainment and a supply of micronutrients.

[Scritch]

I have a dry mix (seeds/grains/pellets) that well the plan is, is supposed to be in their dishes all the time... in practice though they usually have so much other stuff that I only feed the dry mix like every few days, or on my weekends when I'm more likely to eat out... because mostly I feed my birds what I eat... unless I'm eating junk food.

They almost always share breakfast with me -- usually oatmeal & fruit.

Lunch is kinda hit and miss, sometimes I don't even eat lunch or else I eat it when I haven't got time to feed the birds also.

On workdays at least I always eat a good dinner -- I'm mostly vegetarian so usually it's something good for the birds too, lots of veggies and whole grain pasta or rice or dough.

Plus they have their own veggie & cooked bean mix, kinda like the dry mix I use this to fill in the gaps when I can't share my food. So basically they have something in their dish at all times, plus they share meals with me most days... I do NOT have a real firm schedule... I am not a real scheduled person lol...

[RubyMuse]

My birds all have pellets all the time. Harrison's and Zupreem, although one eats Lafebers only because she hates everything else. They all get fruit and veggies in the am - I try for zuchinni, squash, blueberry, raspberry, sweet potato, carrot, and sometimes apple and banana - but those do not have high enough nutrients.

They get nuts generally in the evening - walnuts and almonds, sometimes pecans, pistachios, brazil nuts - although almost never any peanuts because they are somewhat dangerous.

I also give them people food because they have to have what I am eating.

I am learning to sprout for them because apparently that is one of the absolute best things you can give them.

[Scritch]

Sprouts -- I forgot to mention the sprouts! Mine get them most days usually as a just-before-bedtime thing. I do think sprouts are GREAT... when I started feeding them 5 or 6 yrs ago I saw an honestly noticeable difference in my birds, they just looked better all around. For a couple years there I was sprouting for 20-30 birds in a big bucket, I ended up moving away from pellets towards the sprouts and wow, you could see the difference. I'm a big sprouting fan now

[Emmilyy]

Originally Posted by maggy

On Fridays we eat garbage (the only day we do) and all the animals have airpopped popcorn after their evening meal as a treat.

Careful! Popcorn's very dangerous, i beleive. Someone mentioned it in a thread not long ago, their vet told them..

[ashbirdlady]

I feed my birds seed and pellet mix in the morning. They also get some of Dave's Killer Bread.
At night they get fresh fruit, veggies and sprouts or grain and bean mixture.
More than enough. They sometimes get other treats during the day. Snacks from the garden like fresh kale or snap peas.
Christa

[Boshia]

Wow, thanks for the incredible responses! I guess I'll need to add sprouts to the list too^^. For all you small parrot owners, which Zupreem do you feed them? I'm thinking about a parrot the size of a Senegal. Thanks,
Mary