Aly~ Posted September 30, 2010 Posted September 30, 2010 Is raw pumpkin of for my Grey? I thought I had read on here somewhere that it's ok for them (can't find it now). I'm finding conflicting information online. Is Raw ok or should it be cooked?
Luvparrots Posted September 30, 2010 Posted September 30, 2010 I feed raw vegetables to my parrots at least once a week. Pumpkin is a squash so I see nothing wrong with it. Looking on the internet I see it is okay. No one cooks their veggies in the wild so I have always fed ffresh clean raw, squash, cucumbers, peas, radishes, carrots, and other fresh veggies to my fids.
Aly~ Posted September 30, 2010 Author Posted September 30, 2010 Well that makes me feel a lot better!! I'm possitive I gave her fresh pumpkin last year. I gave her some for breakfast this morning and she was going at it so fast you couldn't understand her when she said YUMM. She says YUMM when I bring her breakie to her every morning. Today it was more like...ummmm. Her little face was buried in it. I did take the seeds out, is it ok for her to have raw pumpkin seeds?
judygram Posted September 30, 2010 Posted September 30, 2010 You should have gotten a picture of her buried in that pumpkin, maybe next time, I know pumpkin seeds are in a lot of the parrot mixes so I would think they are ok too but someone correct me if I am wrong.
Luvparrots Posted September 30, 2010 Posted September 30, 2010 The raw pumpkin seeds are also alright.
KimKim Posted September 30, 2010 Posted September 30, 2010 Here is a picture from a couple Halloweens ago that I have, I am not sure if he actually ate any of the pumpkin but he sure had fun destroying it.
KimKim Posted September 30, 2010 Posted September 30, 2010 You should have seen the counter when he was done! Well you could not really see it at all hahaha.
judygram Posted September 30, 2010 Posted September 30, 2010 Thanks Kim for sharing those pictures with us, looks like he had fun even if he didn't eat any of it, love it.
JDS5607 Posted September 30, 2010 Posted September 30, 2010 Those pictures are adorable! I was actually wondering the same thing about pumpkin seeds. I always roast mine and I wanted to give Sully some, but I wasn't sure. I can't wait to give him some pumpkin! He already had a little taste of my pumpkin slushee the other day
Aly~ Posted October 1, 2010 Author Posted October 1, 2010 Uhmmmm...Maybe I did a bad thing.....I bought one of the little pumpkin pie pumpkins and cut it in half to make a pumpkin bowl, then I put her pellets in it and thought she would happily munch on a little pumpkin during the day. Well, I came home to what I can only describe as a bird room that looked like someone put a pumpkin in a blender and forgot to put the lid on it. It's on the floor, the cage, the wall. I even found some in the tiel cage and I didn't give him any of it. How far can a bird fling pumpkin?? If she did eat to much of it, how much is too much and is my Rebel gonna get sick?? She didn't act sick at all last night and this morning even looked a little disappointed that there was no edible bowl again. I guess I'll wait awhile before her next pumpkin treat in such a large dose.
birdhouse Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 I love to let the fids loose while I'm carving jack o lanterns. I've never seen any bad side effects. They have free reign of a huge pile of guts & pieces while I work. What seeds survive get cleaned. I usually hold out enough to feed raw the next day. The rest get baked for long term storage. Sometimes, even the people get some. Just seems like these huge, yummy, bright colored veggies are naturally designed for a parrot to want to tear into. Kind of like setting them loose on a fresh ear of corn still in the husk. Equal parts good food & good fun. One bad thing is finding out how far pumpkin can fly, like Aly said. But that's one of the benefits of having a dog who likes pumpkin. Also, everyone has to get a bath when they're done playing with their food.
KimKim Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Aly- Mine made a huge mess also, I gave him a gutted regular size one. It sounds like she just did what mine did and played with it.
danmcq Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 One bad thing is finding out how far pumpkin can fly, like Aly said. But that's one of the benefits of having a dog who likes pumpkin. Also, everyone has to get a bath when they're done playing with their food. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! I know that well too. Maybe we should all start a "Grey Pumpkin tossing contest".
birdhouse Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Maybe we should all start a "Grey Pumpkin tossing contest". That would be so much fun! 6 or 8 parrots & a 50 lb pumpkin. What a Glorious mess!! Greyt Halloween party game for your fids.
Janfromboone Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 I've heard that the pumpkin seeds are very good for them - Phoenix landing inservice.
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