help especially with baby feeds, this is a real family effort and luckily for me I now have this strong support! Ok a run down on my feeding of my


Pionus. I feed fruit and veggies and soaked seed in the morning either prepared the night before or in the morning in a daze, now I have a new kitchen machine that chops the fruit and veg into handy small Pionus sized chunks which I think helps keep wastage down to a minimum as they have a good beak full before shaking their head and dropping the rest on the floor. As my mainstays of fruit and veg I feed sweet potato, carrot, cucumber, tomato, broccoli, peas, cauliflower, apple, melon, banana, and orange. I add any seasonal fruit and veg that I can find any bargains in our supermarket and some that we grow in the garden washing all and peeling most, also while I am away Sonja has been feeding cooked potatoes and natural yoghurt for example things I wouldn’t feed but gives them an interesting change I am sure. As I am


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sure all know, never avocado, just worth adding that as a warning. To this fruit and veg salad I add a sprouted pulse and seed mix, I wash this thoroughly lay them out in a tub then place a piece of kitchen roll over the top then add water gently till all are nicely soaked then put a lid on with just a corner open or cover in cling film with holes. I then leave them on a window sill for 24hrs then wash again thoroughly then put back on window sill same procedure as day before, another 24hrs and they are just sprouting nicely so I then wash them in a F24 solution for peace of mind and add a small handful to my salad mix. If it’s breeding time or just before or just after I add ad lib some Vesele Laga egg food which soaks up any excess water nicely once all mixed together. Almost forgot I chop the big beans into smaller bits as they ignore them otherwise, this seems to do the trick and they eat most, no matter what I do some ends up on the floor. This mixture is mostly polished off around 1 – 3pm, then I give them a


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