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Botched Batch
Despite having made egg food for well over five years now, every now and again, I goof.
When you have a batch of egg food your birds are eyeballing but not eating, you can do one of three things:
1) Ditch it
2) Feed it anyway and let them sort it out
3) Fix it. Usually the solution is dilution. Typically, I opt
for this approach unless I really mucked it up.
| Beet Egg Food - Before and After |
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| This egg food contained Wheat Germ Oil, Cod Liver Oil, grated Beets, chopped Spinach & Turmeric. |
Above, I show the same batch of egg food. I put about 2 tbs of grated beets into
the basic egg food recipe. Aside from the parents with small chicks who are desperate for any soft food, all the
rest of my birds were just giving it the old sideways glance as if to say -- IS SHE SERIOUS? Even my free flyers who
normally greet a fresh batch of egg food with relish and lose most of their shyness, allowing me to scoop from one side of
the dish while they eat from the other side, were all standing back 4', craning their necks and alternatively staring
at the egg food and one another, blinking their eyes in disbelief. I think I saw my Orange Faced Zebra shrug his shoulders
as if to say, "I dunno?".
OK, well perhaps it IS a bit too pink.
Beet juice really goes far.
To fix it, all I did was make another batch of egg food, add some Turmeric so I knew it would
be yellow, and then mixed the two batches together. Voila - a more finch acceptable egg food color. They tore
into it the second I put it down. Everyone's a critic these days. PHEW!
Job Well Done!
Regardless of what you do or do not use in your egg food, it is most gratifying to see all
your birds crowded around the egg food tray, eager for their portion of the day's treats. Notice here that Lorna Doone,
my favorite normal gray Penguin Zebra hen, is engulfed in a sea of Gouldians. She loves her egg food!
| The Proof is in the Pudding - errr Egg Food! |
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| This is a typical scene upon feeding a flight of birds. I'd better watch my hands!!! |
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