Cereals & Biscuits

Birdie Cereal

• 1/2 c. cooked white or brown rice
• 1/4 c. dry monkey chow, ground in a blender
• 1/4 c. Sun Maid Fruit Bits, soaked overnight
• 2 tbl.s Bag O' Bugs

Mix ingredients together and serve immediately. Change at least twice a day to make sure your birds doesn't digest any soured foods. You can replace the Bag O' Bugs with live insects.
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Eight Grain Cereal

• 1 part oats
• 1 part brown rice
• 1 part corn
• 1 part soybeans
• 1 part hulled millet
• 1 part barley
• 1 part sunflower
• 1 part flaxseed
• Avian vitamins

Mix all grains together. Heat three cups boiling water and add one cup mixture. Cook until the consistency of oatmeal. This can be added to some of your corn bread recipes! Sprinkle avian vitamins over cereal.
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Spicy Finger Biscuits

Dry:

• 2 cups corn meal
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 Tblspn. bone meal powder
• 1 tspn. cayenne pepper
• 1 tspn. garlic powder
• 1/2 tspn. ginger root powder*
• 1 cup hulled millet
• 1 cup pellets (e.g., PB)
• 1/4 cup wheat germ
• 1/4 cup Nutrnl. Brewers Yeast
• 1 tspn. Nekton MSA
• 1 capsule echinacea powder*
• 1 capsule astralagus powder*
• 1 tspn. Boswell's Trace Mineral Powder*

Wet:

• 1-1/2 cups orange juice
• 1 cup milk (or fruit juice)
• 1 can (11.5 oz) V8 spicy hot
• 1/4 cup corn oil

*Optional

Heat oven to 300 degrees. Spray cookie sheets with oil. Mix all ingredients. Should be able to pinch dough into 3/4" balls and roll into cylinders. Add more liquid or flour for right consistency. Place not touching on cookie sheets and bake 1 hour. Makes about 4 large cookie sheets of finger food. Can be put into baggies and frozen until needed.
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Birdie Oatmeal Mix

• 1 part instant oatmeal
• 1 hardboiled egg (no shell)
• 1 part monkey chow
• 1/2 banana
• 1 jar Gerber mixed vegetables
• Avian vitamins

Put ingredients in blender. Add enough water for desired consistency. Store in refrigerator.
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Quick Retreat

• 1 jar Gerber Vegetables
• 1/4 c. Gerber High Protein Cereal
• 1/4 c. monkey chow
• 1 tbl. peanut butter

Mix in blender with enough water for the desired consistency. Store in refrigerator for further use.
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