..... I just hit every single major grocery chain for a half hour drive radius around my house. Not ONE SINGLE STORE carried corn bread muffin mix, bread mix... heck, only one of them even carried corn meal! I guess Albertan's don't do corn bread. =(

So... I'm hoping I'm not butchering this Birdie Bread Recipe by using bran muffin mix instead. At least she'll be regular!!! I hope she has varied tastes too because after raiding the kitchen fridge we ended up with banana, fresh cranberries, corn, parsley fine chopped, and chicken'n veggie baby food. With the peanut butter.

Yum. I'll tag on how it turns out. Right now it looks like cement. According to the recipe, that's about right.

Good luck! I've given up on making birdy bread for Quincy, he insults my cooking by throwing it on the floor every time

http://www.quakerparrots.com/forum/index.p...amp;s=&f=29

You should find some birdie bread on the recipe forum..

If you can find just plain corn meal, it will usually have a recipe for muffins on it, then just add all the extras

Lol thats funny cause I saw last night in the grocery store cornbread muffin mixes 5 for $2

Appantly, Amercians DO eat cornbread muffins. *grins*

And my girlfriend found some in a little store not far from her house, so I'll get to try it next time. The bran muffin mix didn't work out that badly at all - if the birdie bread is supposed to be dense as all get out. Kiko seems to be enjoying it, which is a good thing because I have about 9 weeks worth in the freezer. I know! I need more BIRDS!

On a side note: I seem to have gotten lucky with Kiko and pellets. I'm not having any trouble at all with her eating them in the last couple of days. She's down to about half a teaspoon of seed underneath a crumbled square of birdie bread and she's not rooting around to get to the seed underneath unless that's what she really wants at that point in time. She's also been eating pellets while there's still seed IN her seed/bread bowl.

Diet change down... plucking and screaming to go!

I think when I made the birdie bread I just used cornmeal, the muffin mixes just have added salt etc. to make into a ready made mix. Good luck!

Americans DO eat cornbread. Especially southerners. So I'm not surprised at all that CosmoKramer found such a deal! lol. He's right down the road from me. I've never used a mix. True Arkansans make it from scratch! lol. If any of you Canadians ever get especially desperate I could do a little personal shopping for you. I hope postage to Canada isn't too much....
Good luck Cacophony! You posted on the seed/pellet conversion that you were at the same spot as me. I feel like we've been going through the conversion together! Our baby seems to be eating the pellet without problems, and I just give him a few minutes of seed per day. The biggest breakthrough was when his head didn't disappear the WHOLE time into the seed bowl. Now he snacks for a minute and goes back to what he was doing before. At supper time I do heat up a little organic baby food and mix it with a variety of pellets for a special treat. That's the closest to real food that I can get him right now. But we're working on it. So maybe I should try the birdie bread next! And it souns like you've been doing a great job on the plucking as well. You're Quaker definitely isn't broken. She just needed you to help her get it back together. Can't wait to hear more good reports!
Brandie Leigh

Are you kidding me? If we'll eat Cheese Grits we'll eat damned near anything. I ate ants/grubworms/ treebark and raw fish on a survival training thingy one time. The yankee born wife of one of my Civil War Reenacting buddys made Lemon Poppy seed muffins that were so bad we threw them at each other as small cannonballs.

OMG! ROFL!!