THE STORY OF BIRDIEBREAD™
A a result of the Hurricane Charley in 2004, I became the foster Mom to four refugees from Port Charlotte. These poor, skinny apprehensive little birds had been exposed to the elements for two days, drinking contaminated water, no food and dodging predators. Lynda Lewis from FWCAS ( Florida West Coast Avian Society) of Sarasota www.fwcas.org helped with the rescue along with P.A.R.R.O.T.S. Rescue of Ft. Myers.
Lynda quarantined and tended to the needs of 20+ cockatiels and 5 lovebirds in her A/C garage. Donations of cages, toys and food poured in from all over! Then, Lynda lost her electric in the next hurricane. I picked up Charley, Cha-cha, Ruby and Ladybird as well as Buttercup and Caruso, who eventually were rehomed with a friend.
All the tiels were underweight but eating and drinking normally. Charley was a particularly skinny fellow. I tried supplementing their seed/pellet mix with a seed mash, no luck. I tried fruity oatmeal, no luck. I tried various shapes and sizes of pasta and beans; forgetaboutit…. Finally, I baked muffins with seed mash, organic veggies, cornmeal, orange juice, eggs, etc. and everybody loved it! The base recipe for Birdiebread™ was born!
BIRDIEBREAD™ is based in Sarasota, FL.
Today, my tiels are no longer skinny. Charley loves hot peppers so I devised Hot Pepper Birdiebread™ for him. I have been using Lynda Lewis’ flock of conures, cockatoos, quakers, Pionus, and finches as a focus group in addition to my tiels and, in 2007, I adopted Shrek, a Quaker and Fiona, a Maroon bellied Conure.
So far the top three choices are Beanie Birdiebread™, Veggie Birdiebread™, and Hot Pepper Birdiebread™. Lynda’s Umbrella cockatoo, Tyler, especially likes to pick the beans out of the Beanie Birdiebread™ and eat them later. He also likes to pick the crumbs off the muffin paper. Lynda also serves the cones frozen to Tyler and the conures so they last longer. I use a clip to balance the cone on a perch on the side of the cage for the tiels.
Birdiebread™ is now available at select exotic bird shows and expos and specialty stores in FL, GA, NJ and ,soon, in NC. There are online customers in 22 states and 4 foreign countries! We publish a monthly e-newsletter with a
domestic and international circulation. If you would like to subscribe, please send me an email. (We respect your privacy)
In 2007, two new Seasonal flavors were introduced: Tropical Fruitty Muffins and P’Banutty Cones. Everybirdy loves them!
In 2008, BIRDIEBREAD Cones in Crates went retail at Bird Paradise, a 15,000 sq ft bird emporium in Burlington, NJ, which was voted the #1 Bird Store in the US by the readers of BIRDTALK!
We are considering offering BIRDIEBREAD to a limited number of other upscale, quality pet stores. If you are a patron of a superior pet store that caters to Indulgent Parronts, please drop me an email or ask them to contact me..I trust my customers' good taste!
Isn't it amazing what adopting four little cockatiels can lead to??
BIRDIEBREAD™ DONATES TO THE FWCAS RESCUE ROOM ON A REGULAR BASIS! YOU CAN TOO! WWW.FWCAS.ORG
