Birds love eating their seeds & pellets - but they should also be eating veggies, fruits and whole grains. Some birds just don't take to a piece of broccoli but with a little creativity and a fun recipe, your birds can enjoy a heatlhy treat - made with love from you!
This page is designed to help you think of ways to offer your bird or birds healthy homemade treats.
I am looking to my bird friends for recipes they've tried and their birds love!
Hope you try the recipes - and if you want to submit a recipe and a picture of your bird enjoying it, please email me at flutterfarm@aol.com and I will add it to the page!
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We've added a new baby to our Flutter Farm Family - Dakota the Sun Conure. One of her favorite treats is Birdie Bread Muffins!
To make Birdie Bread Muffins for your birds ...
1 box Jiffy Corn Bread Mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup milk
Add in chopped veggies, fruits, nuts (anything your bird likes or that you want him to try)
Egg food or oatmeal
Mix together and put into 12 muffin paper lined muffin tins
Bake according to temperature on package for 15 minutes
Let cool, and put any left overs into freezer bags & freeze until you're ready to serve!
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| Dakota Enjoying Her Birdie Bread Muffin |
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Chard/Quinoa Recipe - Submitted by Darwin's Mom - Barb from Pullman, WA
To get some greens into Darwins diet, which he doesn't like eating, Barb decided to disguise them in this recipe!
And he really liked it! Also made it with healthy quinoa!
handful shredded Chard (I used green)
handful broccoli florets
handful beans (I used black-eyed peas)
handful cooked quinoa
and about 1/2 T red pepper flakes
Then I just mixed it up in a bowl and served it. It was a little warm because the quinoa had just finished cooking.
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| Darwin Enjoying the Lunch that his Mom made him |
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Sweet Potato Balls - submitted by Darwin's Mom - Barb from Pullman, WA
(Darwin has a really good mommy!)
| 1 cooked mashed sweet potato
1/2 mashed banana
1 T peanut butter
2 T oats
3 T 9-grain cereal
Mix up the above ingredients and scoop up small balls. Roll balls in the topping (below):
4 chopped almonds
4 chopped pecans
2 hazelnuts
handful of millet
handful of flax seed
Bake the balls at 250 for almost an hour. This dries them out quite a bit, but didn't completely dehydrate. Freeze any leftover balls.
Darwin loved the outside, and has managed to shell the whole thing somehow . Option - Mix topping & first ingredients all together, then bake.
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| Darwin Gives This Treat Thumbs Up! |
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