Okra and Pomegranate Fruit - Page 2

03-10-2008, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by tamaran2

Being from the south and all...Ya'll Had to know I give my birds okra. Here in the south okra is a staple food, is it not a staple everywhere????

Anywho, my birds love it. Fresh not cooked, fresh cooked, frozen uncooked, frozen cooked (it's out of season right now) and sometimes when I'm really being a bad birdy mom, I'll share my fried okra with them. Don't worry they don't get much, it's to good to share much with them....

Ok....considering I'm still kinda new here. Where are you from, in the South?

I love and was raised on Okra. MOF..I have it here at the store in the fridge. I have wondered about giving it to the fids....just wasn't sure. I hate it when the restaurants cook it with meal or breading on it....its best if you just brown it in a skillet. Pom, I have a friend that has a tree in the yard and they don't eat it. I love Pom fruit myself and have often wondered if the seeds would be poison to the birds.

04-01-2008, 11:21 AM

For those looking for a safe place to feed your birds poms without it looking a murder scene happened in your home due to the red splatter stains...

feed em in the bathtub. Set em on the shower perches and let them lay waste!

04-01-2008, 11:39 AM

My Alex ringneck thinks dried ocra the bomb.. but will not touch it fresh or cooked..
He will even chose a large dried ocra over a pistachio or almond.. his 2 other fav treats..

Had a bunch of the monster over looked ones last yr from my veggie garden and was dehydrating peppers for them.. sooooo.... decided to experiment with the 7 to 12 in ocra I had.. lol

I cut for the quakers and IRN large rings/chunks.. and just left a few of the monsters whole for Shammy the ARN..

MAJOR hit with them all..

.. have to string the rounds on toys or kabobs for the teils to go for it tho..

The quakers think it combo footy toy and food...

another of the dried favorites around here.. is just jalopenos cut in half long ways and dehydrated (can do the same with most other peppers and I dry the large ones in strips)... when I put a combo of the 2 in dry treat dishs.. have happy dance birdys impatent for me to got to thier cage with the goodies..

Planting an extra half a row of ocra this yr.. just for dehydrating for the fids.. ran out around xmas and they were NOT happy about that...

Even the reg size left whole and dehydrated the quakers and IRN love... new use for ocra here...

The over looked monster zuchinni even works.. I cust cut a hole in the middle of slices with an apple corer and dehydrate.. then can be a foot toy/food or also strung on toys.. and just give them the holes fresh... or can dehydrate them also to add to cooked foods that are a bit to moist to soak up the extra moisture and add a veggie also..

Just LOVE my dehydrator if you can not tell.. hehe..