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Tasty Tuesday - Teas for Parrots

🕑 Added 2021-08-03 15:00:00 +0000 UTC

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Brickelle Gregory

I'm so glad I joined Patreon. I've been following another avian person who does diets for many zoos and he makes his chop with coconut and half a bag of avian tea...so I thought maybe I could add some to my SFS. Dodged that bullet lol. I'm also glad to hear someone say that you shouldn't replace your birds water with tea. This would actually be really good to put out on YouTube...as a general safety thing for all parrots.

Jessica Almquist

Thank you so much for this information! I’d love to meet Patty in person and pick her birdie brain!!

Chris Mallabon

When I first saw the topic, my concern would be the amount of tannins in many teas. Doing a bit of my own research I found this study from Cornell: http://poisonousplants.ansci.cornell.edu/toxicagents/tannin.html. The part most concerning was: In poultry, small quantities of tannins in the diet cause adverse effects levels from 0.5 to 2.0% can cause depression in growth and egg production, levels from 3 to 7% can cause death. Note: percentages are % of diet. Unless parrots are specifically adapted to eat high tannin foods I'd stay away from the tea. On a side note, Cornell also has a great bird ID app called Merlin. It's free and is created and maintained by students there.

jonathan k buckland

i don't know if it is tea per say but i spray v8 with no sugar added vegie blend on to the pellets you sell birds eat it

BirdTricks

You should be able to search Tasty Tuesday or clip on it at the top of the main page and see the others!

Beth van Aalst

This is the first Tasty Tuesday I've been able to see❣ (New here on Patreon, my first month) I've been questioning tea for parrots for a while now. Thank you for this video. I too would like to know what tea you both give your flock.