SPROUTS 

The Health Benefits of a Natural Diet

Sprouts constitute a significant part of our birds' diet every day of the year as it's a living food. It contains more than 700 times the nutritional value of fruit, veggies and greens but does not replace them. They are all a significant part of a complete diet. The health benefits of a natural diet are healthier birds, fewer health issues, fewer illnesses, excellent healing properties, fewer problems associated with egg production, and a higher quality of viable eggs for breeding birds. A deeper saturation of feather colour and maintaining a healthier weight level. With no obesity problems, even birds who have developed feather destruction behaviours respond well to being fed a diet rich in a blend of sprouted legumes, seeds, and grains.

When to Harvest Your Sprout Crop

Your young sprouts are at their nutritional peak when the bud develops a cleft (divides into a left and right petal). Harvest time may vary slightly depending on temperature and season.

Parts of the above information are extracts from

The Complete Guide to Sprouting

by Steve Meyerowitz

& The Complete Guide to Successful Sprouting for Parrots Leslie Moran

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Sprouts should always smell fresh and look good, not start to die with roots and shoots starting to brown off. Never feed your birds anything you would not eat yourself. I graze on our sprouts when preparing and feeding them, too. All our Conures and other parrots love their sprouts, greens & veggies that we supply them daily all year round. What we make up for in sprouting is giving our birds the best nutritional food possible.