**home made egg food **

[perfectpeter]

here is a recipie to make your own egg food and save you lots of money by not buying the ready made egg food!

it goes down a treat with my own birds and all the members on another foum i posted it on have all said the same

 

i hope your parrots enjoy it too

 

ingrediants =

2 eggs

1 slice of bread

bit of olive oil

 

Take your two eggs and place them in a pan of boiling water.

Boil the eggs between 15 to 20 minutes. If you boil them for to long the yolk tends to go black.

 

After the eggs have finished boiling,

peel off their shells and place the shells on a dish.

Put the shells in a microwave and set the microwave to high,

then microwave for 5 min's.

This will make the shells go hard and brittle, ready for crushing.

 

 

Back to the eggs, now you have peeled the eggs, let them cool down

completely for 30 to 45 min's or you could leave them in a pan

of cold water to speed things up.

 

While the eggs are cooling we now have time to crush the

egg shells. Place the shells in a bowl and with the end of a rolling pin

start crushing and grinding the shells into small flakes.

I try to get them down to 1/8" flakes and smaller.

 

O.K. now we have the crushed shells, keep the shells in the bowl and roughly chop the eggs into the same bowl.

Take a folk and start mashing the eggs and shells together until you have a fine crumbly mix.

 

add a tiny bit of olive oil to make moist.

 

 

Now this is were the bread crumbs come in.

This is a rough guide take about 58 grams of bread crumbs and add to the mix, (or half a slice of bread per egg) start mixing the crumbs into the egg food until you get a

dry-ish crumbly mix, you will have to keep adding more bread crumbs until you get a dry and crumbly mix.

 

This part of the mix is optional. I like to add in some bird seed to

my mix, especially if you are going to feed it to birds what are not use to egg food, with the seeds added it will encourage birds to start pecking at it until they get use to the taste. When your birds get the taste of egg food, they will soon clear their pots.

 

Now the egg food is finished place it into a air tight container and keep refrigerated.

If you have made a bigger quantify place into a number of small pots and put them into the deep freezer

[lovemyGreys]

Thanks Brooke for posting your egg food recipe, I'm going to try it out at the weekend

[perfectpeter]

your welcome hun, let me know how it goes down

[lovemyGreys]

I will. i'll grab the camera

[judygram]

I am gonna try this also, will let you know how it goes over with Josey.B)

[perfectpeter]

hope josey likes it too

[chapala]

Is this a recipe for breeding birds? Pet birds do not need much animal protein, and about 1 tsp. a week of cooked egg is all that is recommended. They do best with lots of whole grains, some legumes, fresh vegetables, some fruit and a few nuts.

Reta

[perfectpeter]

its for both breeding and pets chapala,