Microwave Birdy Bread Cones Food

HEALTHY CAKE FOR COCKATIELS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Heavily grease one 9"x13" cake pan.
• Mix all dry ingredients together well in large bowl.
• Add eggs and baby food; stir until all ingredients are evenly moist.
• Batter will be very thick and heavy.
• Pour batter into cake pan.
• Bake approximately 40 minutes, or until cake pulls away from sides of pan.
• Cool completely, and then cut into birdie nibble-sized cubes.
• These freeze extremely well and will thaw fairly quickly.

WHOLESOME BIRDIE BREAD FOR PARROTS

Steps:

• Pre-Heat oven to 400.
• Place muffin mix, oatmeal, and baking powder in large bowl and set aside.
• Wash whole eggs thoroughly and place in blender (shells and all.) Add baby food, applesauce, and wheat germ, and puree.
• Pour blended puree into your bowl of dry ingredients and stir with a large spoon. Stir in Tahini, cheese, grated carrots, and broccoli (if you have a fussy bird, you can puree these items in the blender in step 3.).
• Spread mixture in a lightly greased 9 x 13" pan and sprinkle the seed (or pellets) over the top.
• Bake for approximately 30-40 minutes. (Time may vary.) Let cool and cut into squares that are the size of a daily portion for your bird and freeze accordingly.
• Defrost daily portions in the microwave before feeding. Depending on your bird, either crumble the birdie bread into their bowl (especially smaller birds) or give them talon size chunks (bigger birds).
• Don't be afraid to experiment with the ingredients. The recipe is very forgiving. Instead of baby food, I sometimes substitute frozen mixed vegetables, a can of pumpkin, mashed bananas, or mashed sweet potatoes.
• Instead of oatmeal, I often use cooked brown rice, baby rice cereal, or wholegrain Cheerios. Other things I've experimented with include chopped nuts, raisins, cooked lentils, chopped kale, pureed chickpeas, or pasta.
• Tahini (sesame seed paste) is preferable to peanut butter, if you can find it. It's very high in protein and calcium.

PEANUT BUTTER BIRD SUET

Steps:

• Melt the lard and peanut butter, and mix in the dry ingredients and bird seed. Often we mix in bacon fat, bread crumbs, Red River cereal, or whatever we have on hand. Work well together. Make into 4 x 4 x 2 inch blocks and freeze. Place in suet feeder in a tree and watch the birds come to feast!

MICROWAVE BIRDY BREAD CONES

Steps:

• In a tall bowl, stir together the egg (no shells), applesauce, and corn muffin mix until moistened. Stir in pellets and raisins.
• With a spoon, fill an ice cream cone 2/3rds full of the batter.
• Cook one at a time in the microwave on high (800 wats) for 30 seconds. Top with a decoration like a Cheerio or a large Pellet.
• The inside is very hot. Let the cone with birdy bread inside cool completely before feeding to your parrots.