Friday, April 3, 2009

Sprout and Dry Seed/nut mix

We will have our sprout mix by this weekend and should have our dry seed mix by next week. We are getting most of our ingredients from Sun Organics which has Certified Organic products and Just Tomatoes.
Our Sprout Mix will be 3 separate mixes: A bean/legume mix, little bird mix and big bird mix. We only have a name for the bean mix so far and it will be Bean's bean/legume mix. The big and little bird sprouts are a blend of sprouts that can be soaked overnight and feed the next day or hold on to them a little longer and let them grow some tails

Our seed mix will be a small bird mix called Juju's mix and the larger bird mix will be call Hercules' mix.

Both our sprout and seed mixes will be missing any soy and peanuts. There is controversy regarding soy and hormones so we are leaving them out. With peanuts in the shell there is a chance of a bird picking up Aspergillois so they are out. There are plenty of other nuts that are safe and healthy. Our mixes use human grade organic ingredients.

We will be using dehydrated or freeze dried fruits and veggies from Just Tomatoes. We like this company because they product is only the fruit or veg and nothing else added. No preservatives, sulfur dioxide or extra sugar added. We have found that a lot of dry mixes have small bits of dried fruit that are just little sugar bombs and super sweet. They are sweetened with coconut milk, honey or other natural products so as to preserve them which is great if you want a product without sulfur dioxide but it really adds to increased sugar content which makes all the fruit taste the same. Just Tomatoes is simply, just the product and nothing else.

Our dry mixes will need refrigeration once opened to keep the fruits and veg crunchy but this will also help keep everything else fresher and keep those nasty moths away. I hate those things.

I'm also getting closer to having some good breads ready. So far the most popluar is a fruit/nut/anise bread which tastes great and has no sugar in it.
I am also working on some bird friendly breads that are low in cholesteral for the over weight birds, such as my CAG (Congo African Grey) Soda Pop, who is starting to show some borderline clevage

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