Plucking or dull Colors?

African Grey Parrots live across the whole range of the oil palm, from the ivory coast eastward past Cameroon and south into zaire.

Polly's Palm Oil, which comes directly from West Africa, s the food of all the African Grey's ancestors and cousins in the wild!

They are all well-adapted to it, and now you're going to have this food of their soul for your own parrot!


What's going to happen when you your bird eats Palm Oil??

After a week or two, you'll probably notice your bird's tail feathers getting a brilliant red. We don't know hot that happens, but it really works, and t makes the bird look Good! You may also notice a brighter sheen on your bird's feathers.

Palm oil(and coconut oil) got a bad name in the US as a "tropical" vegetable oil that was a "worse" saturated fat than other oils. It turned out that it was a publicity group for some US farmers that had put out this information. In January, 1996, the US Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services released the "Dietary Guidelines for America," in which palm and other tropical oils where no longer singled out as a worse source of saturated fat than any other.

Palm oil is one of the riches natural plant sources of carotene. Carotene is converted by animals into Vitamin A (and palm oil is used in Malaysia by people to correct Vitamin A deficiencies). African Greys evolved feeding on this rich source of Vitamin A(rich indeed-from 15-300 times the carotene in carrots and green vegetables). Next to calcium deficiencies, Vitamin A deficiency is quite commonly found in pet African Greys - no wonder, since they have such a history of getting lots of it!!

If your bird is feather plucker, don't be surprised if, after a few weeks on Polly's Palm Oil, he or she stops plucking. No guarantee, but this is your pet's wild cousin's main food, and they don't pluck feathers out there!


How your bird likes to eat Polly's Palm Oil?

About 1/4 teaspoon or 1/2 teaspoon of Palm Oil per day is about right for each bird. Natural red palm oil is one of the richest plant sources of Vitamin A, better than carrots or apricots. It's also a great source of Vitamin E.

You put it in your bird's food dish, just dripped over whatever it is your bird is eating.
- somtimes we give them sprouted sunflower seeds or sprouted wheat berries
- or you can just get it spread on your bird's favorite seed mix, or dripped on bananas or grapes.
- sometimes birds get it on their vegetables -- corn, carrots, brocolli, or even sprouted pinto or mung beans.

Source: C & L Aviaries Online - Polly's Palm Oil

Any testimonies?

from what I have seen and read, best stuff. I will post all that I experience with it.

Palm oil is great for greys and most macaws, other birds such as amazons, toos ( with the exception of Black Palm Toos, palm oil is essential for them!), keets, teils, conure....not so good, the fat content is to high for their system.

My goal is to have all 10 on it starting tonight. I also have seen and heard hemp helps and dandilions, along with sprouting our beans and seed. Birdies should be very happy.

Natural bee pollen and spirulina is also amazing for birds!

That is also being added. I wish more people would try this stuff for their birds.

Yeah, I'm big on nutrition, while I believe in pellets, I also believe that the more nutritious variety of food sources you can give your bird the better off they will be. And if you can tailor the diet to the species of parrot....even better! In my opinion it is ridiculous to think that an African parrot or an old world parrot for that matter would have the same nutritional requirements as their south american and new world parrot cousins, they've evolved in different parts of the world and look different for a reason, and their natural food sources are different, so their nutritional requirements should also differ.

First feeding went well everyone is eating it.

Here are some referances to it:


Nine References (or why this is right for you!!)
Nine references in this literature talk about the Grey's diet:

FIELD GUIDE TO AFRICAN WILDLIFE, National Audubon Society - [The African Gray inhabits] rain forest, forest, mangroves and oil palm plantations... [it] wanders about, according to which trees are in fruit; also raise such crops as oil-nuts palms and maize." (p. 750)

THE NEW PARROT HANDBOOK, by Werne Lantermann - "The gray parrot's distribution is largely identical to the range of the african oil palm, the fuit of which forms the bulk of the bird's diet" (p. 116)

PARROTS OF THE WOLD, by Joseph M. Forshaw -"They are particularly attracted to the fruit of the oil palm" (p. 10)

AFRICAN GRAY PARROTS, by Annette Wolter - "In the wild, African Grays live primarily on fruits that are not available in our stores... Their favorite foods are various kinds of fruits found in the forest, nuts, berries, and fruits of the oil palm" (p. 35, p. 52)

BIRD TALK - NEST BOX, by Dale R. Thompson - "African greys in the wild have a high-fat-content in their diet because they consume large amounts of African oul palm fruit" (April 1995, p. 69)

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA (Micropedia VII) - "Common in the rainforest, gray parrots eat fruits and seeds; they damage crops but are important propagators of the oil palm" (1976 ed., p.769)

AFRICAN GREYS, by Fran Gonzalez - "African Grey parrots are very efficient eaters and devour everything in their seed bowls. I also believe that they have a high metabolism rate, because I rarely see and overweight African Grey" (p. 27)

ONLINE BOOK OF PARROTS, by H.J. Pfeffer - "Nutrition: Fruits, seeds, berries and nuts (esp. Elaeis guinesis [oil palm]). Cultivated crops are also raided." (Psittacus erithacus, p. 2)

CONGRATULATIONS FOR GETTING STARTED ON POLLY'S PALM OIL!!!
THANK YOU... THANK YOU...
...for purchasing Polly's Palm Oil. Palm Oil is the oil extracted grom the fleshy "fruit" of the West African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis). We African Grey Parrots live across the whole range of the oil palm, from the Ivory Coast eastward past Cameroon and south into Zaire. So Polly's Palm Oil, which comes directly from West Africa, is the food of all our ancestors and cousins in the wild We're all well-adapted to it, and now you're going to have this food of our sould for yourself!

WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN???
Most of us are going to love Polly's Palm Oil. Of my person's seven pairs of African Greys, six pairs LOVED the Palm Oil as soon as we got it. Most of us like Polly's Palm Oil more that we like our other food. We don't have any idea why the last pair didn't like it at first, but mixed up in their favorite food, they soon got into it, too.

After a week or two, you'll probably notice your tail feathers getting a brilliant red. We don't know how that happens, but it really works, and it makes us look GOOD! You may also notice a brigher sheen on your other feathers.

If you're a feather plucker, don't be surprised if, after a few weeks on Polly's Palm Oil, you stop plucking. No guarantee, but this is our wild cousins' main food, and they don't pluck their feathers out there!

CLEANING UP
Giving us our Polly's Palm Oil may be messy for your person. (Not for us parrots -- we'll clean it off by our natural preening, and love the extra bits!!) Two hints for your person: First, it's easier to give it to us if your person softens the whole container by running it under hot water for a few minutes -- that will soften the oil and allow uit to be pored into the spoon. Of course we'll love it if it's just squeezed out of the container, too. Second hint: soap and hot water will get the oil off themselves and clothes, which shouldn't stain.

Just to update- our B&G that came to us stressed and plucking is now growing feathers in, We started everyone on liquid kelp and the Red palm oil, Wow, just 6 days what a differance! this will remain in all their diets!