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Re: Brazil nuts for Catalina Macaw
Posted by Robin on 4/18/09

On 4/12/09, Lori wrote:
> How about getting him some mixed nuts in shells, they need
> to crack them open and be allowed to be a bird. Try nutsite,
> thats where we buy mixed nuts excellent quality and you can
> freeze them. I buy bulk and also their trail mixes with no
> salt. Macaws need nuts with shells, think of the wild, no
> pellets and not crap foods!
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> On 4/10/09, Robin wrote:
>> I have had Rain-beau (15 year old Catalina Macaw) for
>> about 6 months now and he tolerates me, but I would like
>> to get him off so many peanuts and was wondering if non-
>> shelled Brazil nuts would be good for him or should I just
>> remove the peanuts all together - he loves pistachios and
>> walnuts, but he seems to live for peanuts. Can anyone
>> help me?

Thank you, Lori - I need to remember that he is a bird (even
tho he is part of my family) and not to baby him! aaargh!
Obviously, nuts don't come unshelled or salted in the wild.
(duh)

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Brazil nuts for Catalina Macaw, 4/10/09, by Robin.
• Re: Brazil nuts for Catalina Macaw, 4/12/09, by Lori.
• Re: Brazil nuts for Catalina Macaw, 4/18/09, by Robin.
• Re: Brazil nuts for Catalina Macaw, 4/28/09, by Rich.