Like other breeders, I like to mix up fresh veggies for my birds. This morning, I processed two carrots in the food processor added a bunch of broccoli and processed and then some fresh cabbage. Once fine, I added a couple of cups of Petamine Breeding formula. The birds love fresh veggies!
These are some of my young German Roller hens enjoying the fresh veggie mix. Here I have used some of the lids from the oatmeal containers for extra serving dishes.
Ah Linda ! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe that included some cabbage. I had always thought it was not good to feed birds. Looking at the dark leaves on my New Year's Day cabbage, I thought, why not? They were dark and definitely not too watery. I'm going to try your mix today. (I used collard greens for their NYDay meal) I suppose the birds need their luck and greenbacks too !
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Deb
Does not seem to matter what the veggie combination is, birds love it and waste is eliminated. I like to put in cauliflower but was out of it at the moment..
ReplyDeleteSometimes I feed cabbage leaves straight off the head.
In our area, broccoli is really expensive this year. It is also prone to bugs and I would imagine that they use lots of pesticides on it as you never find a bug unless it is locally grown. So I find I am substituting more veggie variety and the Borders in particular love all their veggies!
Nice to see other breeders using veggie blends for the birds.
ReplyDeleteI have used collard greens, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower,
zuchina, sweet potatoes, peas and corn alone or in different combinations. The birds love the carrots BUT I only feed carrots to my red ground birds.
When I fed carrots to the yellow ground birds they picked up too much color for the show bench.
A no no for the fifes and yellow birds.