Sprout Mixes & Directions

Ration & Ingredients:                      Other Cele Bird Choices:

3 parts – Black Oil Sunflower Seed        3 parts hulled Sunflower seeds

½ part – Buck Wheat                                  1 part Mung bean

1 part – Horse Oats                                     1 part wild & brown rice

1 part – Red Winter Wheat                         1 part millet

½ part – unhulled “patty” rice                  

We also serve with chopped veggies, fruit, and seed mix.

We soak the seeds in the bleach solution for 20-24 hours. I use the hottest water I can get from the tap, and we keep the water heater as hot as it will go.

You can use any unit of measure for the seeds, For fewer birds you can use a cup or a cottage cheese, or butter tub, or something like that. It doesn't have to be exact, because each pair will have their preferences. Also, you need to remember that in the wild these birds will seldom eat exactly the same thing two days in succession. That is the reason I believe all birds need a varied diet. I think it can have psychological benefits, as well as nutritional.

The soaked seeds are then dumped into large colanders, and rinsed with the same kind of solution. AGAIN, hot water is used from the tap, with the bleach added. It is then left to stand for 10-12 hours before feeding.

There don't have to be any sprouts actually showing for the seed to be nutritionally improved by the soaking process. In fact, if you let the sprouts appear and get a little length on them, they actually deplete the nutritional quality of the seed....actually, when the birds eat them, they usually nip the sprouts off, and just eat the seed, so it is wasted nutrition.

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