rice cooker?

[Tw!tch]

Hello to all.

Just wondering if anyone uses rice cookers for their themselves and their birds?

[SarieBrat]

I never cook my bird in the rice cooker....or myself for that matter. hohoho!!

[Mystical_Melody]

If you need a rice cooker to cook for your birds, there are a lot of them or you have a really big bird.

Got one, like it. But I use the Microwave rice cooker more.

[sweetleaf]

You can feed rice to your greys? How much and how often?

[spud_dick]

about twice a week.

Jayne & Pepsi (CAG) Frankie (MSC2) Peaches (MOL2) Bridget (`Tiel)

[Mystical_Melody]

Depends on the bird. I have some teenage birds that never learned the bad habits of people food. Just a few days a week for balance. Then I have a Grey I raised from the egg. The refrigerator door sets off mating calls. So if you want the bird to eat rice, all you have to do is nibble on some yourself. There`s a moral to this lesson, I think.

Mix rice with carrots, peas and green beans. A 500 gram Grey eats a few tablespoons. The budgies, canaries and parrotlets eats less than a teaspoon.

[darth_mint]

Found this old thread and thought I'd add an update: Nicky eats warm cooked white rice (high grade!) and loves it, although he gets SO sticky and makes his whole cage sticky too :laugh:

 

I think he picked the habit up from watching me eat dinner (rice is a pretty common food here) and I offered him a bit every evening before making it a regular part of his diet. Word of caution: don't offer it to your Grey unless you're prepared for a really, really, really sticky starchy mess!

[Tycos_mom]

I never feed my birds white rice only brownrice and varations like brown rice wild rice mixed with brown rice and I always put a ton of veggies in with it like sweet potayo, lima beans,kidney beans. carrots, broccoli,peas, and some times a little cheese that way its very nutritous and the dont get to much sticky rice everywhere my birds little heads dissapear into their bowls and don't come back out until every bit of it is gone.<br><br>Post edited by: Tycos_mom, at: 2008/08/20 16:34

[mas]

I was just reading this thread, and I'm wondering - does the part you put the rice in, in the rice cooker have a teflon coating??

[darth_mint]

Oh gosh no!! Teflon gives off fumes which are highly poisonous to birds. The rice cooker we have at home is a really, really old model (I think it's actually older than I am!) and there is NO non-stick stuff involved in it at all. Which makes it a pain to clean, but I believe the rice tastes better for all that :lol: