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Parrot Hand-Feeding Formula Recipes

Apricot Pellet Baby Mix

• 1/8 cup pellets
  1 tablespoon Gerber apricot baby food
  
  
  Chop pellets in coffee grinder.
  Mix with warm water.
  
  
  

Baby Formula

• 1 cup powdered sugar-free fruit juice
  1 cup quick-cooking oatmeal (not "instant")
  1 tablespoon corn oil
  1/2 cup raw wheat germ
  2 cups sunflower meal (or raw hulled sunflowers kernels, grinded in blender)
  2 slices very dry whole wheat bread
  5 cups water
  
  
  Mix oatmeal, corn oil, wheat germ and water.
  Cook on stove for 5 minutes.
  Remove from stove.
  Add one 4 1/2 ounce jar of baby veggies (peas, carrots, spinach)
  Grind sunflower meal/kernels and bread in blender.
  Mix all ingredients together.
  
  
  

Formula Mix

• 2 parts Roudybush hand feeding formula
  3 parts Exact hand feeding formula
  1 part Gerber baby food
  water to desired consistency
  
  
  Mix ingredients.
  
  

Hand-Feeding Forumla

• 1 cup all natural apple sauce
  1 quart All natural apple juice
  1/2 tube Nutrical (high calorie supplement for cats and dogs)
  2 jars each of Gerber baby food (spinach, garden vegetable, carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, green beans)
  3 tablespoons Jif low sodium peanut butter
  4 cups Kaytee Handfeeding formula
  4 cups Water
  
  
  Mix Kaytee formula, water, juice, applesauce, babyfood.
  Stir until powder completely blended.
  Add peanut butter and Nutrical.
  Microwave on high for 8 minutes.
  Stir then microwave again for 8 minutes.
  Stir then microwave again for 8 minutes.
  Divide in to 1 cup servings and freeze in containers.
  Thaw: microwave 4 minutes, stir, heat 25 seconds or until warm.
  Food will last in refrigerator for 2 days.
  
  
  

Nestling/Rearing Food

• 1 cup dry Kaytee hand rearing food
  4 cups Gerber mixed baby cereal
  powdered bird vitamins/per directions
  
  
  Store in airtight container.
  When ready to use:
  Finely shred 1 cup of hard boiled egg.
  Mix 1/2 cup of ingredients with 1 cup egg.
  
  
  

Oatmeal Mix

• 1 hardboiled egg (no shell)
  1 jar Gerber mixed vegetables
  1 part instant oatmeal
  1 part monkey chow
  1/2 banana
  avian vitamins
  water for desired consistency
  
  
  Mix ingredients in blender.
  Store in refrigerator.
  
  
  

Veggie Peanut Butter Forumla

• 1 jar Gerber vegetables
  1 tablespoon peanut butter
  1/4 cup Gerber high protein cereal
  1/4 cup monkey chow
  water for desired consistency
  
  
  Mix ingredients in blender.
  Store in refrigerator.