If you would rather cook food instead of sprouting, you can cook a mix of beans and legumes . You can buy these at the market and add them as a part of the diet. We do not however recommend feeding a diet of exclusively pelleted food . For Macaws we add 2 to 4 Zu Preen monkey chow and 2 to 4 nuts, depending on the birds needs. You must determine the amount of food a bird receives each day by closely watching the amount of food that is left in the bowl the following morning and by closely monitoring the birds weight.
Birds tend to pick out what they like to eat first and leave the rest.
We slowly cut back on the amount of total food given and when we reach an amount that the bird is eating almost all of the food given, without much left over, then we know that they are eating a balanced diet. A few things to avoid are Avocado, chocolate, alcohol, greasy foods and foods high in sugar. We do not feed walnuts to our Hyacinths. We and a few others have had a digestion disorder arise from feeding walnuts to Hyacinths. If you have any questions about feeding your new baby that you got from us please call.