Can a bird eat a roasted coffee bean ok?

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Can a bird eat a roasted coffee bean ok?



It's one of the things I have always been told to avoid, caffeine.

Can a bird eat a roasted coffee bean ok?



It's one of the things I have always been told to avoid, caffeine.

"Alex Clayton" <alexx1400@yahoo.com> wrote :

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Can a bird eat a roasted coffee bean ok?



It's one of the things I have always been told to avoid, caffeine.


For you or the birds.

Trust me, if it's you, something else will get you before caffeine does.

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Can a bird eat a roasted coffee bean ok?



It's one of the things I have always been told to avoid, caffeine.


For you or the birds.

Trust me, if it's you, something else will get you before caffeine does.

LOL, no I mean the birds. The "experts" can't ever seem to make up their
mind on caffeine and humans. One day it's great, the next day it's bad. I
could care less what they say, I indulge in plenty of it daily. My Macaw
does try to get at my coffee all the time when he sees me drinking it. I
don't know if it's because he likes the smell or it's just that since I have
it, he wants it. I would suspect it's just he sees me with it. At times when
we are outside in the morning he can be VERY persistent in trying to grab at
the cup. <G

it a long time ago, but not for any reason other than the drugs I take
make it taste like crap.

I do put a little apple juice or guava nectar in a small paper cup and
she loves to lap at that. I don't do that too often. For some
reason, my particular bird can't have a lot of fruit or she gets the
runs.

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Can a bird eat a roasted coffee bean ok?


It's one of the things I have always been told to avoid, caffeine.


For you or the birds.

Trust me, if it's you, something else will get you before caffeine does.

LOL, no I mean the birds. The "experts" can't ever seem to make up their
mind on caffeine and humans. One day it's great, the next day it's bad. I
could care less what they say, I indulge in plenty of it daily. My Macaw
does try to get at my coffee all the time when he sees me drinking it. I
don't know if it's because he likes the smell or it's just that since I have
it, he wants it. I would suspect it's just he sees me with it. At times when
we are outside in the morning he can be VERY persistent in trying to grab at
the cup. <G

"Jangchub" <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in message > My Macaw does the same
thing when I drink coffee. I stopped drinking
it a long time ago, but not for any reason other than the drugs I take
make it taste like crap.

I do put a little apple juice or guava nectar in a small paper cup and
she loves to lap at that. I don't do that too often. For some
reason, my particular bird can't have a lot of fruit or she gets the
runs.

I think with most all pet birds they want what they see us eat or drink.
They figure if we are having it, it's got to be good. If I hand the Macaw a
piece of banana he will take a bite and drop it. If I stand there and eat it
and keep offering him some, he will eat as long as I do. Like kids <G
The fruit juice does the same thing with him. He LOVES any kind of juice,
and will get very runny droppings for a little bit but I assume it's just
because there's not much too it so most of it just passes through pretty
quick.

If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?

"Jangchub" <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in message
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If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?

Why should she not be eating steak and chicken?

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:34:00 -0700, "Alex Clayton"
alexx1400@yahoo.com> wrote:



If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?

I brought home a 2 kilo bag of Combate (a popular brand of Mexican
roasted coffee) and foolishly left it on the dining table. My B&G
macaws (probably the male) ripped open the bag and spread it all over
the table and floor. Some beans where "crunched", obviously by them
biting the beans. That got them a day of cage time but no other
apparent ill effects. I tried offering them each a bean the next day.
In both cases they took it but on tasting it dropped it. My conclusion
is that roast coffee beans aren't poisonous, they aren't particularly
good tasting to a bird, and (like just about everything else) they need
to be kept away from the birds just because they're curious and like to
play with them. Had that been a bag of almonds most would have been
shelled and some eaten.

As to liquid coffee, my macaws want to try >anything< I happen to be
drinking. They don't care for coffee. Any kind of fruit juice they
insist on sharing. Saying no to a pair of macaws perched on each
shoulder isn't wise.

A more likely thing for them to drink which contains caffeine are
various type of soft drinks. They're sweet like juices. I don't bring
those home after the make opened a can. He didn't pull the tab, just
bit hole in the can. He enjoyed the cold shower but didn't drink much.
What a mess!

"Jangchub" <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in message
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If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?

Why should she not be eating steak and chicken?

Drunk birds - there was a pub I used to go into years ago that had an
African grey parrot that was sometimes loose in the bar area in the
afternoons. He would go from table to table, trying to sip people's
drinks (his favourite was cider) when they weren't looking. There was
a big sign above his cage saying "Please do not offer drinks to this
bird". The barmaid was telling me that birdie would sometimes get
completely ratted because people were holding pints of booze up to the
cage (presumably because the bird started up with those 'I want some'
looks) and end up crashed out on the bottom of the cage.

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:44:19 GMT, "Joanne" <Joanne@jobirdnest.com
wrote:


"Jangchub" <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in message
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If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?

Why should she not be eating steak and chicken?

Because she is a vegetarian, not a carnivore or omnivore. Macaws in
the wild don't eat meat, carion or animals.

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:44:19 GMT, "Joanne" <Joanne@jobirdnest.com
wrote:


"Jangchub" <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in message
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If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?

Why should she not be eating steak and chicken?

Because she is a vegetarian, not a carnivore or omnivore. Macaws in
the wild don't eat meat, carion or animals.

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:44:19 GMT, "Joanne" <Joanne@jobirdnest.com
wrote:

"Jangchub" <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in message
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If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?
Why should she not be eating steak and chicken?

Because she is a vegetarian, not a carnivore or omnivore. Macaws in
the wild don't eat meat, carion or animals.

Jangchub wrote:
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:44:19 GMT, "Joanne" <Joanne@jobirdnest.com
wrote:

"Jangchub" <sakadawa@kopan.com> wrote in message
news:5bmkj2djetc4ib3htj6ifijt8ic5ebdhsu@4ax.com...
If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?
Why should she not be eating steak and chicken?

Because she is a vegetarian, not a carnivore or omnivore. Macaws in
the wild don't eat meat, carion or animals.

Drivel. To quote <http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-macaw.html

Macaws eat a variety of ripe and unripe fruits, nuts and seeds, flowers,
leaves, and stems of plants, and sources of protein like insects and snails.

Last time I checked "insects and snails" counted as animals.