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- Hey everybody, Jamie Leigh here from BirdTricks,
and I'm here with Jinx and Comet to bring you
our new Birdie Bread Blends.
Now one is done after Bubba, it's Bubba's Blend,
cause that is Jinx's nickname.
And it includes his favorite, which is blueberries.
And then we over here have Comet's concoction,
which includes sweet potato and turmeric,
some of his favorites on a daily basis.
So I'm really excited to make these for you,
show you one, how easy it is to make,
and two, just how much one bag of Birdie Bread
can actually make for you.
To make our Birdie Blend,
you only need a few things from your pantry.
This includes one teaspoon of baking soda,
one teaspoon of baking powder,
one beaten egg, one cup of applesauce
which you can make at home, which is what I chose to do.
And one cup of one of the birdie bread blends.
Now the base of our birdie blend is our pellets.
So it's a great way to get your bird accustomed
to an organic palette.
And that's all you need.
You're going to need a mixing bowl
and something to bake your birdie bread in.
If you want to make muffins, that's also an option.
Set to say-
So, out of my two birdie bread blends
I actually chose to make comments blend for,
for you guys today and for my birds.
So simply pour one cup of that blend.
Oh, now I got the bird's attention
and you'll notice that our birdie bread blends look a lot
like our pellets when they're powdered
which is because again, they are made
from the base of our pellets ingredients.
So all organic ingredients are going into this
which is awesome.
Especially if you choose to make your
own applesauce at home.
the very first thing you need to do
is preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
So I'm going to go ahead and do that real quick.
(oven beeping)
And then simply you're going to mix the dry
ingredients together and the wet ingredients together
but in their own mixing bowls
I'm going to show you what that looks like.
You wanna help Jinxy?
So with your beaten egg
you're simply going to add the applesauce.
And with your birdie bread blend mix
you're going to put that in a bowl
along with your baking soda and baking powder
then you're just going to combine everything nice and well.
Are you helping?
You're helping Jinxy?
(chuckles)
Bubs, Not yet.
It's not ready yet.
Once your wet ingredients are thoroughly mixed
and your dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
The next thing that you're gonna want to do
is mix them both together.
So I'm simply going to take my dry ingredients
and add my wet ingredients to it.
And I'm not going to let you taste test yet
but this is going to form your batter
which you're going to use for either your muffins
or your full loaf of bread.
look good?
because I don't want these two taste testing prematurely
the, the raw batter.
I'm going to go put them on a place stand
while I put the batter into this pan
before it goes into the oven.
So you guys can see what it looks like, but I'm not
luring any curious beaks.
So your batter should look delicious, just kidding.
It's delicious in bird terms.
And again, you can make mini muffins.
You can make this as, in as big or little portions
as you want, depending on the size of your bird.
So as you can see, this only took up about half the pan.
So I can actually make a whole other recipe and put it here.
If I wanted to do bubba's blend
on this side, comet concoction on the other
because they do bake for the same amount of time.
So this will go in the oven
for about 15 minutes and you can test it
with a toothpick by poking it through and just making sure
that it's cooked all the way through.
The cool thing about birdie bread is
it lasts a long time so you can freeze it.
Just make sure that you're not freezing it, then thawing it
then freezing it again.
So freeze it initially, then thaw it
as you need to use it, but do not re freeze it.
Birdie bread is a great tool to kind of hide healthy foods
in a texture that most birds love
which is being the bread type texture.
So what you can do is you can add fresh foods
to this and blend it in.
So if you need to add more or less moisture, just keep that
in mind, using canned type veggies is going to
add a lot more moisture.
So be aware of that versus adding fresh.
So one of the things that I really like to do
or tell my clients to do, to get their birds
to eat our natural feeding system is incorporated
into the birdie bread.
So you can literally take our natural feeding system.
This is a bag that I am thawing literally today
and you can incorporate it in.
Now, keep in mind when you're taking it from frozen
to thawing, it is going to have a lot more liquid in it.
So you would definitely want to cut back
on the applesauce as necessary, but just kind
of get this texture and make sure that it's not too dry
and it's not too wet when it's going in.
You want that really good consistency of a batter.
That's not hanging on to things
but it's also not super dry.
So I can put my hands on this and it's wet
but it's not completely coming up
on my hand, if that makes sense.
So hiding foods in birdie bread is essential
for getting some birds to try healthy foods
or get a taste for healthy foods.
That's why this birdie bread is such a great tool to
get a bird, to try our organic pellets
because the base of the ingredients is our organic pellets.
And then you can incorporate foods that,
you know your bird likes to give them those flavors
that they're used to, or they might seek to find.
All right.
So I'm going to go ahead and make another batch
of Bubba's blend this time to put next
to comets concoction in my pans.
You guys can see two little variations of recipes.
Now, each bag you make identically the same
with the same ingredients.
However, this time I'm going to incorporate
a quarter of a cup of my seasonal feeding system.
So you can see that's all fresh foods right there
but it is nicely thawed.
So that's gonna add some liquid.
So I'm probably going to need less applesauce to go
into this so that my batter isn't completely wet
and doesn't cook as well.
So that's what we're going to do right now.
So I get my cup of birdie bread blend
and remember to put all the dry ingredients together.
So that's my birdie bread blend with my baking soda
my baking powder, just a teaspoon of each.
And then I mix it really well together.
Then I'm going to go over here to my wet ingredients
take my one beaten egg
with my quarter cup of my seasonal feeding system.
I'm going to go ahead and mix that together first.
Then I'm going to combine my wet and dry ingredients.
And the reason I haven't yet added applesauce is
I want to see how much liquid I still need to make my batter
the consistency of the other batter.
So that'll give you a good adequate result and
I can already tell, I'm going to need some of my applesauce.
So I'm going to pour probably half of it in.
(mixing)
And even still I can see needing more.
So I'm going to go ahead
and leave maybe a quarter of it out.
And that's about a perfect consistency for me.
So go ahead and play that by ear
for what you end up adding to your birdie bread
whether it's fresh or depending on how you do it.
Since mine was just recently thawed it was
a lot more liquidy than normal.
So I want to make sure that my batter doesn't get too wet.
So I'm going to go ahead
and add this to the other side of the pan.
We'll see the differences in these two birdie breads.
So these are my two birdie blends.
This one is Bubba's blend
with the blueberries and my natural feeding system added in.
You can see a lot of the greens are kind of sticking out
and this one is comet's concoction.
You can tell by the more orangy color
from the sweet potato and the turmeric.
So we're going to put these in the oven
and see how they turn out.
So these are my birdie breads fresh out of the oven.
The way that I tell
that they are done is I just take a toothpick, put it in
and if it comes out clean, we're good.
Comes out clean, we're good.
So I'm excited to let these cool
and then serve them to the birds and see how they like them.
So my birdie bread is complete.
I ended up going with muffins because one,
my birds really like to hold foods
in their foot and be able to eat it that way.
Also I can break it up into meal sized portions
and one entire bag of birdie bread made 56 muffins.
This is one serving.
So the recipe on the back of your birdie bread
it will make this big of a portion.
Obviously, if you have birds smaller than mine
you may want to make your muffins a little bit smaller
but this is about the size of the muffins we made.
Again, an entire bag of birdie bread made these
which might end up give the bite out of them.
Yep. Had a feeling that was going to happen, but 56 muffins.
Oh, And we've got another guy.
I had a feeling I wasn't going to get
away with showing these off for very long
with the birds involved, they're already digging in.
Now, one of the things about my birds is
normally they really like mushy textured foods.
And that's why, because most birds do
that We tell you to use one entire cup
of applesauce in the recipe.
If your bird is kind of like mine
where they actually prefer the crunchier dryer textures
in a birdie bread, then go ahead and only use two thirds
of a cup of applesauce for this recipe.
That'll just make it a little bit more
crunchier, a little drier
and it'll help it cook a little bit faster.
Keep in mind
if you're incorporating other types of ingredients
into the recipe that you may need to alter the ingredients
just a tad based on how much moisture you're adding
and how long you're cooking for.
And also how big you're making these.
Muffins are just a great size, because again
they can hold them in their feet
(laughs)
and eat them as a meal.
So you can really portion it out a little bit easier.
Yeah, it's that good stuff.
All right.
I'm going to sit you down so I can get cute video of you.
(squawks)
I know I'm not taking your muffin.
(giggles)
because I've made so many of these muffins.
I have way more than my birds can eat in a day.
So I am going to go ahead and freeze these.
Now I use a Ziploc bag
because I go through food pretty quickly around here
with the size of my flock.
However, those vacuum sealers are really
the best thing to use for freezing because they lock
out all the air.
Again, please just keep in mind
that once you freeze these and then thaw them for use
make sure that you use them in about three days.
I would say max, and then do not re freeze them.
So make sure that you use whatever you thaw.
So be very mindful of that.
Now for the small birds
I really like incorporating spray millet.
So if you can take some millet and just sprinkle it
over the top, when these are warm and they first come
out of the oven, that will be really great.
Cause they'll actually seep down
into the batter a little bit
and they'll kind of bake in or warm in at the very end.
And that's a really great way to entice the small beaks
into something like this.
Don't be afraid to incorporate things that you know
that your bird already likes
in order to engage him and get him interested
and curious enough to check these out.
Whatever you need to do to entice a bird
to try this, do it.
And then you can always wean off of it
and eventually not have to use stuff like that.
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Do you wanna over here?
You do.
All right so.
(bird squawks)
What?
So, so my birdie bread is done.
Woo. Hello
Hello, sir.
He will not be left out of this.
Hey, everyone
here with bird tricks
and I'm very excited to announce our new birdie bread
flavors. We have Bubba's blend.
What's your nickname?
What (laughs)
What's your nickname?
Bubbs you blew my shot.
(offscreen person laughing)
It was gonna be so cute.
He blew it, we'll start with you Comet.