A Simple Egg Food Receipe

[spiritbird]

I just cannot wait for Kobe and Tango to grow back their flight feathers. For healthy feathers an egg food will add protein they need. So today I a making this:



i hope your parrots enjoy it too [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]

ingredients =
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

[spiritbird]

I just finished making this and I used bread crumbs because you do not want the mix to be moist at all. Dry out the egg shells first like they say. It made enough that I froze some. My birds went right for it. I also added bird seed which I am sure attracted them at first.

[Mr Peepers]

Good recipe LadyJ.

I make a similar dish for the boys here.

I cook a small hard boiled egg put it through a sieve to make it mashed but light, then I add tiny tips of fresh raw broccoli and shaved raw carrot. I sometimes add either cous cous or quinoa to the mix and a little fresh bread crumbs. The fids tear into this especially Mr Peepers, he will eat all the food I put in his dish and then he'll fly to SPX's cage and eat the same food there. Canaries are such pigs! :th_biggrin:

I usually nuke the shells for a few minutes and make sure to remove the membrane then let the shells sit and dry completely before crushing them. They store easily in a clean pill container. I can add it to their fresh mash or just leave it in a treat cup and let them eat what they want when they want.

[spiritbird]

sounds good Peeps. I purchase crushed, sterilized egg shells on MSBS and add it to their regular food every day. Don't want any low calcium levels here.