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sentiels3
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Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 1312
Location: Joliet, Ill |
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 Does anyone have a tiel that eats butter? My tiel Kacey likes bread and c.rackers but loves both when buttered. Also one time at dinner, my mom had the butter dish on the table. The birds also eat on the table, they have their own food dishes plus eat off our plates. Kacey walked over to the butter dish and proceeded to take bites out of the butter. I never knew that birds would like butter. Are there any other butter loving birds out there?  |
Sunday November 12, 2006 4:31 am |
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shirin
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Location: Canada, Toronto |
 Funny you should bring this up... One time I had left the better dish out and uncovered, I went into the kitchen to find Cookie (one of my doves) sitting in it, grease all over her face, and just pigging out on it  I couldn't belive it! After that incident I often found her in the kitchen looking for the butter Well she's not a tiel  but obviously all birds love butter |
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Sunday November 12, 2006 5:44 am |
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shirin
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Here's a picture of her I took that week looking for the butter on top of the fridge
http://s19.photobucket.com/alb.....h=imgAnch1
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Sunday November 12, 2006 5:56 am |
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sentiels3
Experienced flier
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 1312
Location: Joliet, Ill |
 what a cute picture. My sennie, Pepper also likes butter on her bread, Maxi not sure about, hes mostly a seed bird. Kacey though absolutely lovesbutter. |
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Sunday November 12, 2006 9:28 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
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That pic is so funny Shirin!
Funny you should say that Sentiel. I don't have a tiel but when I offered Zazu a small piece of butter to sample (I expected him to reject it) he ate it with gusto! |
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Sunday November 12, 2006 9:32 pm |
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shirin
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Yuck! Our birds have such disgusting tastes Butter by itself? At least Kacey and Pepper eat theirs with bread |
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Sunday November 12, 2006 9:36 pm |
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sentiels3
Experienced flier
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 1312
Location: Joliet, Ill |
I guess birds do love butter. Maybe it helps smooth the food when swallowing? Any other butter birds out there? |
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Sunday November 12, 2006 9:37 pm |
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Cathy
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Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 6673
Location: Omaha, NE USA |
I used to share my buttered toast with Manu every morning, as I know that macaws require more fat in their diets & he loves it. But last time I had Manu in to the avian vet, he was BIG! A bit over weight. Needless to say, I'm no longer sharing my morning toast |
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Monday November 13, 2006 2:29 am |
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sentiels3
Experienced flier
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 1312
Location: Joliet, Ill |
 Poor poor Manu |
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Tuesday November 14, 2006 6:33 am |
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cheekie_birdy
Experienced flier
Joined: 08 Jul 2006
Posts: 1719
Location: Canada |
That is cute!! Except for poor Manu being overweight! Poor guy! Did you make him exercise? Cheekie loves to dance to Richard Simmons excerise videos.
Just remember all, too much diary makes birds sick, and be especially careful with cheese, as it can impact their crops and be fatal. 
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Tuesday November 14, 2006 10:25 pm |
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cheekie_birdy
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Joined: 08 Jul 2006
Posts: 1719
Location: Canada |
oops in my first post I meant to say
dairy
..not diary! I spelt it like that on my homepage too..I keep meaning to fix it.. |
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Tuesday November 14, 2006 10:26 pm |
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Jrmno1
Flying tumbler
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Posts: 2310
Location: Ohio, USA |
Alex loves Peanut butter, I sit down with a peanut butter sandwich, he will reach over and take a big hunck out of it, and then lick the peanut butter out of the middle before he eats the bread. The others saw this and now guess what. I have learned that if I want to eat a sandwich I don't want to take it in the bird room....
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Wednesday November 15, 2006 1:04 pm |
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Cathy
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Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 6673
Location: Omaha, NE USA |
OK, I'll 'fess up to the peanut butter too Not me, but my hubby gives Manu a small piece of his peanut butter toast in the mornings. It started out as hubby trying to get Manu to say "peanut butter". After 3 years, Manu still dont say it!
Anyway, the last time Manu was into the avian vet, a couple of days ago, his weight was back down to normal. We are thinking the tech who weighed him the time before mis-read or mis-calculated the scale the time before. |
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Wednesday November 15, 2006 2:36 pm |
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Cheeta
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quote:
Originally posted by cheekie_birdy
Just remember all, too much diary makes birds sick, and be especially careful with cheese, as it can impact their crops and be fatal.
Really? cheese can impact crops? I've never heard that they could do that... Though I must say I would never give any birds too big a chunk of cheese to start off with, but it's not because I thought it could cause impacted crop, but rather it is too much fat for birds! |
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Wednesday November 15, 2006 4:37 pm |
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sentiels3
Experienced flier
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 1312
Location: Joliet, Ill |
The cheeses I read about that birds should not eat at all because it could cause bowel obstruction is like gummy cheeses. Such as mozzarella, munster, provalone...
My birds only get very small bites of cheddar or colby cheese only once in a great while.
I try to make sure my birds only eat the correct foods, I want them to stay healthy and happy and safe. |
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Thursday November 16, 2006 5:35 am |
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