Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
Marianne Marlow
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 22, 2021 12:06:20 GMT
Looks lovely Sam, hopefully you'll get lots of nice flowers and chives
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Post by samwiseg on Jan 22, 2021 13:09:19 GMT
I hope so too Marianne Marlow! I would love to have chive flowers for the bees!
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
Marianne Marlow
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 22, 2021 14:19:25 GMT
You've just reminded me that my budgies of old, Monty, Sky, Dumpling and Co used to like to chew chives. I hope so too Marianne Marlow! I would love to have chive flowers for the bees!
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Post by jellybean on Jan 22, 2021 15:00:11 GMT
Are chives ok to give?
I thought since they were part of the onion family......
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Post by willowsmum on Jan 22, 2021 15:17:13 GMT
Looks fab samwiseg!I love the name Devonshire dumpling and you had a Dumpling in your flock Marianne Marlow - fantastic!
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Post by samwiseg on Jan 22, 2021 15:51:25 GMT
That's what I thought too jellybean so have never given them. Tried my lot with dill once or twice but had no takers. The only thing they liked was basil. Thank you willowsmum! The Devonshire Dumpling is a bit of a family favourite as my OH's mum came from Kingsbridge, Devon and he bought her one once because of that. Sadly she passed away in 2016. So we always said that when we got our own garden we would get one or two for her in her memory
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 22, 2021 17:31:02 GMT
I didn't realise that chives weren't okay. I thought I had read that they were. They haven't been given for a very long time - Hezz, are chives okay?
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 22, 2021 17:31:58 GMT
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Post by jellybean on Jan 22, 2021 17:39:00 GMT
That's my go to website too Marianne.
But, I 'Googled' whether chives could be given to budgies, and found that it was a no.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 22, 2021 18:17:27 GMT
I googled garlic and it says it's toxic, but I thought garlic was good, so I dunno!!
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Post by Hezz on Jan 23, 2021 0:49:17 GMT
I think garlic and chives are some of those foods that we have to decide for ourselves. Obviously both may contain a certain amount of a toxic substance, but how much of that is the bird actually getting? Is the benefit of feeding garlic for example outweighing the possibility of them getting too much of that toxic substance. In small amounts I’m sure both are perfectly fine, and that’s how they end up on the safe list in some cases and toxic in others.
Most foods will have something that is toxic in quantities but mostly those quantities are minuscule and not worth worrying about.
I read an article a while ago from a bird rescue sanctuary somewhere in South America, if I remember correctly, or they were rescuing and rehabilitating Sth American parrots, it doesn’t matter, but quite a big outfit anyway. The author stated that unlike other places that only feed their rescue birds bird-safe foods, these guys would put all and anything out for the birds, so that they could truly learn what to eat and what not to eat in the wild. They found that beside the odd nibble, the toxic foods were generally ignored anyway, and the birds taught each other what was okay and what was not. A much more realistic way of going about things, I thought.
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Post by Morgan on Jan 23, 2021 1:51:29 GMT
I googled garlic and it says it's toxic, but I thought garlic was good, so I dunno!! I have settled on that garlic is supposed to be good if fed in tiny amounts, medicinally. Just like certain plants contain medicines for us in tiny amounts, but can be toxic in large amounts. So I suppose it all depends. For example, when looking at safe wood for parrots, oak is considered unsafe due to the tannins (especially in tanoak, which we have a lot of where I live). However, it has been studied that a lot of the foods which many species of parrots eat in the wild contain far more tannins than oak does (but perhaps not tanoak - couldn’t find anything specific about that). So I think a lot of people take the “better safe than sorry” route and don’t use or feed anything questionable. But we are always learning more
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Post by Morgan on Jan 23, 2021 1:55:41 GMT
Actually, does anyone know if parrots do what rats do? Eat a tiny amount of any new food and then wait a while to see if it affects them negatively, before eating any more if it doesn’t. It seems that my linnie does this. When I offer a new food they’ll take a tiny nibble then go away for a bit. Then come back to it later if they liked it.
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Post by samwiseg on Jan 24, 2021 10:25:47 GMT
Sorry to change back to the original topic but I just had to share this with you. Captured it this morning:
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Post by Shirls on Jan 24, 2021 10:40:33 GMT
Lovely samwiseg!! I had that here but it was orange and didn't photo too well. A sign of bad weather to come today!!
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