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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Sept 12, 2020 16:33:43 GMT
I had put a mixture of wheat, oat, rye, barley and flax seeds in a planter outside. It was successful and Buddy and Tweetie Pie have been enjoying it. I noticed a couple of days ago what I thought were some seed heads coming up and that indeed was what I saw. I think I'll give it another day or two and then clip a couple or so and see if my guys will eat it. Now - how to keep it going?
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Post by willowsmum on Sept 13, 2020 15:30:48 GMT
Looks great TPM, I hope your boys enjoyed the seed heads. Maybe you could leave a couple of heads on the plant to dry out and then plant the dried seeds? I've been collecting seedheads to try this but haven't planted any yet. Dreading the end of the fresh grass season!
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Post by jellybean on Sept 13, 2020 15:36:59 GMT
Are you still getting fresh seeding grasses in sunny Edinburgh, willowsmum? Think I'll have to move East, I can't get any now.
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Post by willowsmum on Sept 13, 2020 15:43:21 GMT
I don't know about the sun jellybean but I'm still managing to scrape a few grasses together whilst out for walks. It's definitely getting harder and harder to find them though and I think they'll only last another couple of weeks at most I do wonder what people think when I walk past carrying huge bunches of grass. I'm secretly dying for someone to ask so that I can talk about budgies. Is that normal?
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Post by jellybean on Sept 13, 2020 15:48:04 GMT
willowsmum, if I had £1 for everytime someone has asked me 😂 They keep thinking I do flower arranging or the like, when I tell them the reason, they are astounded.
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Post by Hezz on Sept 13, 2020 20:01:03 GMT
willowsmum, if I had £1 for every time someone has asked me 😂 They keep thinking I do flower arranging or the like, when I tell them the reason, they are astounded. Same here, jellybean, although often they think I'm collecting secret herbs. Rarely a week goes by that I'm not asked.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Sept 13, 2020 21:38:30 GMT
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Post by jellybean on Sept 14, 2020 7:17:46 GMT
Glad they enjoyed it TPM.
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Post by willowsmum on Sept 14, 2020 7:49:33 GMT
Success tweetiepiesmom! It sounds like they loved it. Don't know what's wrong with the people around here jellybean and Hezz, they're not normally backwards about coming forward
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Post by jellybean on Sept 14, 2020 8:04:19 GMT
We're a friendlier bunch here in the west 😜😂😂 Only kidding willowsmum. It'll happen, just you wait and see.
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Post by Hezz on Sept 14, 2020 20:59:58 GMT
Someone just has to be brave enough to come forward. I was picking grass one morning when up beside me drives Mr Cool - wrap around sunnies, muscle singlet, shaved head, tats, pimped-up 4x4, the whole package, and what does he say?? "I see you out here all the time, doing whatever you're doing, and today I just thought "just go for it, be brave and ask her!!" Sooo, I've gotta ask, what is it you are picking?" That really did make my day. We had our conversation and off he went, happy to have been brave enough to ask the wicked witch what she was up to.
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Post by yellowfacedviolet on Sept 15, 2020 3:18:28 GMT
I was picking grass one morning when up beside me drives Mr Cool - wrap around sunnies, muscle singlet, shaved head, tats, pimped-up 4x4, the whole package, and what does he say?? "I see you out here all the time, doing whatever you're doing, and today I just thought "just go for it, be brave and ask her!!" That was you?!
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Post by blue48 on Sept 16, 2020 8:11:16 GMT
I am really missing being able to offer seeding grass to BertieB, and I'm sure he is missing it even more
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Sept 16, 2020 15:26:31 GMT
The seed head are definitely a big hit! I have found that I need to clip the heads themselves to the cage bars, otherwise they chew the stems and the grass head ends up on the bottom of the cage. Right now I'm thinking about how to keep that grass going. Since we have fairly mild winters, I think it should continue to grow year round. Is it OK to give them the seed heads regularly? Does it contain a lot of fat that would make it a "treat" only?
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Post by jellybean on Sept 16, 2020 16:35:32 GMT
I would imagine that in the wild, seeding grass would be their staple diet TPM, containing zero fat, therefore the healthiest food option you could feed them.
Here in Scotland it runs out far too early, for my liking, and the birds.
All my boys have enjoyed nibbling the stems as well as the seed heads.
Do you have names for the seeding grasses you pick, or have pictures, I'd be interested to see how they differ from the ones here that I pick.
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