Coconut oil

[Minamommy]

Does anyone add coconut oil to their birds food? I add just a tiny bit to Mina's pellets then top it with featheriffic or flax. I don't want to cause fatty liver disease. Now the only way I can get her to eat her pellets is to put the coconut oil on.

Also she won't eat many fruits and no veggies. I found this organic baby food with different mixtures of fruits and veggies. I found if I add it to non fat vanilla yogurt she gobbles it down. I had a friend that's a vet and she fed her Too yogurt when she was in Guam and couldn't get Benebac. What do you guys think of yogurt? She gets less than a teaspoon of it.

[Casper's 2nd best friend]

Casper likes unflavoured yoghurt with a bit of honey to sweeten (because that is how I have it).

He does like his fruit much more than veggies - he seems to prefer sweet tasting things. His fave veggie is a pea pod which he holds in his beak whilst splitting it open along its length. Then he holds it with one foot and takes the peas out one at a time, rolling them in his beak to remove the skin and then eating the soft centre. He seems to know what to do instinctively despite peas not being a regular feature in the Amazon rain forest.

[spiritbird]

With the grey I had I mixed the baby food with corn bread and she loved it. You can begin to cook veggies and then mix in a food processor to baby food consistency. Be careful when feeding baby food because some have higher iron content than others and our birds can get iron storage disease.

[Macaw Lover]

Coconut oil is great for them to have

[Lady]

I use coconut oil for me and our cats seem to enjoy it as well, but I haven't given any to Lady but have let her taste it on my finger. If I cook with it and Lady eats from my plate she gets it that way come to think of it.

[Minamommy]

Mina loves it so much when I mix up her food she tries to get up on me and gobble it off the stick. Spritbird thanks for the heads up about the iron I never thought of that.