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A few days ago we were having a meal with brown rice in it. I thought, surely budgies could eat rice? So I set a bowl of rice aside for the birds, put a spoonful in their veggie bowl and put the rest in the fridge. My budgies are usually nervous of new foods, and the only way I could get Meeple to eat new foods was to show her they were food (ie eating them myself in front of her!). So, I came up to them with the bowl, showed them the rice and then ate a bit of it. No luck.

 

I woke up the next morning to a lot of happy chirping and saw two little rice-covered budgie faces looking curiously at me! :rofl: So, I've been giving them some every morning as they seem to love eating it and throwing it all over the floor (a job for the vacuum cleaner ). Brown rice is a success with my birds! Has anyone else ever fed their budgies rice before???

never tried it. Sounds like they are enjoying it

My nana used to give it to her old one all the time, he used to siton top of his cage saying 'Flied Lice mum, flied lice mum' Maybe not the most PC thing for my nan to teach him but it was pretty funny

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My nana used to give it to her old one all the time, he used to siton top of his cage saying 'Flied Lice mum, flied lice mum' Maybe not the most PC thing for my nan to teach him but it was pretty funny :rofl:

My budgies love rice. I read that budgies could eat cooked rice so I decided to give it a try and they loved it. Now I give them rice every now and then and they just eat it up

okay, this is my present for the weekend for the budgies. i always like to give them something new.

awesome I so have to try that!!

My budgies love it. Brown rice is a low GI rice (around 40gi) and contains more protein and nutrients than most other rices which have been de-husked. Rice is however an incomplete protein (as grains are) and when mixed with legumes (barley, peas, lentils) which are also incomplete, together they form a complete protein which is much more beneficial to the birds and provides extra nutrients as well. I would recommend buying a packet of pre-made dry soup mix, and adding it to brown rice and cooking them together without salt. If you need to fatten up a bird, you can also add olive oil or another nutrient oil as the rice will readily absorb it during cooking.

 

I will have to look up the ratio for legumes:grains that make a complete protein, but i think its around 2 parts grain to 1 part lentils. So you could make 2/3 cup dry rice, 1/3 cup lentils, cook and serve a portion, freeze the rest. I place mine in ice cube trays, freeze, remove in seperate ice cube sized portions for thawing and serving at a later point. You can also blend a vegetable cocktail into a chunky mix or fine paste, mix it with your cooked rice and lentils then freeze the mix and serve

Edited March 13, 200916 yr by Dean_NZ