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Palm Nuts SOLD here if you Live near Manchester Pets & Aquatics,

66 Stockport Rd,

Ardwick,

Manchester M12 6AL..

 

There frozen £4:50...You get about 50 Nuts

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Max munching a Palm Nut

 

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Short Vid here...Max eating a Nut..

 

"<br><br>Post edited by: Skuffy, at: 2008/04/17 12:43
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im in the uk and iv'e got my palm nuts and sugar cane(before iv'e got my grey :D) from 24parrot.com, they also ship to europe, outside europe, and rest of the world, dont know what price it will cost you guys tho

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Hello all,

I've been reading this forum about palm nuts. I live in San Diego, California and give my parrots palm oil. There are tons of palms loaded with nuts all over the place plus we have some feral parrots around but I don't know if they eat the nuts or not. I've been researching if it is safe to give the palm nuts to my birds and the 2 avian vets I have talked to said yes regarding the queen palm but I they didn't address the other types of palms. Does anyone know about other types of palm nuts? I would like to harvest them from sources where I know they don't spray and package them to sell. They are available all year round but I don't know when the best time is to pick them. Does anyone know?

Thanks-

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I have heard the queen palms mentioned before but unfortunately im unable to offer any advice,here in the UK we have to purchase frozen palm nuts.Just be careful if ferel parrots are eating from the source you intend to pick them from as they may well be carring disease which could be transmitted to your bird.

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Yes, I will stay away from where the feral parrots feed not only in case of disease but because I don't want to take away their food source.

I did get a call back from the palm nut seller, Richard Sawyer, in Florida and he said it's best to get the nuts from queen palms and canary island fig palms. He said don't pick them if they are green and make sure they haven't been treated.

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hmmm... I give Charlie more than you guys are recommending. My main problem is that the smallest quantity I can buy is a kilo at a time (for about 20 cents!). I have no refrigeration, and if you leave them out, they go moldy in no time in this climate. My solution was making friends with the ladies in the market who sell them so they give me just a handful once a week or so. But when I get them, I have to feed them to him within a few days before they get moldy. But I guess it all averages out since he sometimes goes a week without any...

 

Even better is when the tree in front of our house has some ripe ones. Its amazing: perfect hight for picking with no climbing involved! Problem there is that the locals like to munch on 'em just about as much as Charlie does, so we've got competition for them! :)

 

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(view of our lovely little palm from our porch)<br><br>Post edited by: mareeee, at: 2008/10/28 19:19

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Hey Mareee being in the Peace Corps is a very noble thing to do, I commend you. Your home looks so cute and the weather looks great (I'm from Washington State and it rains here all the time). I was reading about palm nuts and how parrots in the wild really love them and they are great for protein for birds, since you are in Guinea and food is hard to find I think giving your grey palm nuts is a good and nutritious thing. Since you can't refrigerate, how about sealing them in a clean dry container, perhaps they would keep longer then. Good luck and please keep in touch when you can.

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Hey thanks luvparrots. I can't get to online often here, but like taking advantage when I'm here in the capital.

 

Yeah, the tree always has all kinds of birds coming to scout out the palm nuts. I figure I need to give Charlie plenty so he doesn't get too jealous of the other birds :)

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