This is a wonderful video; I never knew that a dry millet stick could be sprouted. Seeing your birds in this video going right after it is wonderful. Originally my budgies would only eat seeds, then I saw your video on chop and they started doing better with vegetables. Then you did a video on sproutings with mung beans, peas, lentils, etc. My birds got better with sproutings also, but I must admit that a lot would wind up being tossed around and dropped on the floor; I would then let them resort to seeds. You made this sprouting with a millet stick look easy. Now I know I can do it and I'm confident that my birds will eat it because it will be attached to the stick where they will peck and pull at it.
Don’t have birds, never had. Trying to learn how to sprout millet and I came across your video. What a treat… you are beautiful, what you do is wonderful, and your birds are lovely. This is just a beautiful video… made me feel happy. Thank you🙏🙏
My wife and I have tea or coffee everyday at a huge city park while we're doing our morning chores. We feed the birds wild bird seed that includes millet, milo and black oil sunflower seeds. I think we enjoy watching the birds eat their treat as much as they like eating it. So, I think I'm going to start sprouting the seeds to give it a better nutritional value. I hope the little guys like it more and it improves heir health !!!
I never thought of doing that with Millet....Guess I know what I will be doing today ;). I did purchase some millet from Bakers Creek last year and grew some millet for my birdies :). I was afraid it was going to be eaten by the wild birds before I had a chance to harvest but luckily they didn't seem to care...Thanks for the video :)
It’s weird how wild birds don’t go crazy for millet like caged birds do. I wonder why? I hung a sprig of millet up near a bird feeder and the house finches and sparrows totally ignored it. But they go crazy for black oil sunflower seeds. Whereas my birds (budgie and parrotlet) go absolutely bonkers for millet like it’s their last meal lol
That is awesome Donna, i never knew you could do that and its nice and easy to do too.i want to send this video to my friend who has all small birds and little budgies / cockatiels canaries and and Finches.I am wondering if my Timneh will eat them . I love how take care of your birdies.Bye for now .Be safe take care❤️.
Absolutely LOVED the video!! ❤I had no idea you could do that with millet. I love learning new ideas like that!! Thankyou so much! Can't wait to try it!🦜
Hi Donna can you make a video please about how you trained your wild birds to go back to there cages and also is it recommended to take out canary’s and finches and lovebirds together outside there cage?
Hi, here is a video that I made a while ago about how I get my birds in their cages. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sENmEcL3S-Y.html I will make a new video soon to update it. It depends on yoir Lovebird. If you have several or a female they can be nasty to other birds. I have one male Lovebird and he is fine with my other birds. Lovebirds can be more aggressive if you have two or more.
You can separate the seeds and then sprinkle them on top of 1/4” of soil that you’ve placed inside of some small yogurt containers, 8 oz. Ball Canning Jars etc. and then use a spray bottle to moisten the seeds and soil and then cover them with some sort of lid and place them in a dark place like inside a cupboard, drawer etc. to allow the seeds to sprout and then when they’re a couple of inches tall, remove them and place them near a window in indirect light. They will turn very green and grow a few inches tall. And then give them to your birds. ……… You can do the same with Wheat Berries (seeds) to make wheatgrass. Soak the wheat seeds overnight though instead of just spraying them. I sprinkled Millet Seeds densely in a large pot filled with soil outside and the Millet is already 3 ft. tall and already has many sprays that are 3” - 4” long. You can grow your own!
Hi! Have you actually tried growing millet from the sprays? If so, did it work? Millet is getting so expensive to buy, and I've even had issues where the local stores didn't have any in stock for a few weeks! One of my birds is a millet addict, so this didn't go well for him (or me for that matter). If you haven't tried growing millet from a spray, do you know if there's some special kind of millet seeds you have to get to grow millet? That seems like a dumb question, but I don't know if millet seeds from a spray have been treated in some way to prevent people from growing their own sprays. I just want to start growing some ASAP, since I know it will take months for it to produce new sprays. Anyway, this is a great video. My birds are super picky and may not eat sprouts, but I'm going to try it. 🙂🙂🙂
8:56 i have to pause the video to see if its a mushroom or not, actually grains are the most nutritious when they are uniripe, if you happen to grow the plants pick the green one for your bird.Birds can't eat grass so the greens are wasted
With so many birds, most likely your sprouted millet sprays were all consumed in a day? If you had any left, how long would these sprouted millet spray continue to sprout and be fresh? I got my birds a cat forager toy for Christmas and thought putting millet spray in the forager would get them to play and use it. Rainbow has never seen and never had any millet spray and he is 3.25 years old. My Mango is 9 1/3 years old and had it a few times many many years ago. Surprisingly, Mango doesn’t remember the millet spray so both were deathly afraid of it. I did a video on this a couple of weeks ago and after trying for awhile, they both still don’t care for it. Strange isn’t it. So when you mentioned that your budgies were afraid of it and finally were the last ones to approach the sprouted millet, I can understand why considering both my budgies have absolutely no interest in their millet spray.
Hi, there was sprouted millet left over. I rinse them and put it in the strainer and give it back the next day and repeat until its all gone. Once my budgies saw the other birds eating it, they came over and ate it. I put a small piece in their cage near a perch and they ate the whole thing. When they are out of the cage they are so busy playing and flying that food is the last thing they want but at the end of the day they go into their cage and eat. Now I will continue to put it in their cage as they preferred to eat it this way. One of them bathed in it, lol. I wished I could of got it on camera.
Thank you for great demo how to …. Mine look almost as pretty as yours. Question: can I give my fabulous four parakeets sprouts every day? My pieces are mostly 4 inches long.
Hi, I keep it on my kitchen counter. I give it to the birds and take away once they are no longer eating it. I rinse it off and put on a kitchen towel and serve next day
Hi. It will keep on growing once sprouted. Keep rinsing it. I find it goes bad after a few weeks. You will see either mold or it will wilt. To be safe use it for a week. Sprout a half a millet spray and give it to your birds once sprouted. It shouldn't last too long if they eat it right away.
Greetings, My name is Chris I have a pair of lovebirds and recently they have layed eggs, I am a huge fan of versele laga products so I brought muta vita, calcium, verti vita as well. I was wondering should I still continue giving them verti vita or just omni vita and Calci-Lux? I want to make sure the birds are in best condition. I appreciate for your quick reply. Regards. Chris
Thank you so much for sharing this idea!!! I have two doves they used to love eating spray millet but losed interests recently 😢I am going to try this for them!!!!
Hi!! I have a 4 month old lovebird for a week now, he/she is not tame, i tried to put a millet in her cage but he/she just take a bite and ignored lol, how can i tame him/her?? Tnx in advance
My parents and I can only all agree on having birbs as pets so far. 1 or 2 of the same species, depending on if that species is a solitary one like a canary. I hope we can foster them from first from a resuce like Calgary Humane Society. This time we will have a complete care book with pictures and print pages from websites and find ways to save time. Luckily, I have already been growning some edible plants and soaking/spouting grains, nuts, seeds and legumes since I was 17. I won't have to learn how to do those from scratch after we have the pets. I also make DIY fertilizer from plant scraps
Hi I discover this Chanel today it was very good 😄 I saw the video of how to have our birds warm and the Idea of the heater in the cage was amazing I will take one if I write something bad is because I am Spanish 💪
It gives me the heebie jeebies a little bit 😩 but if the birds will eat it. Do the birds get freaked out by it also? Edit - I see that some of them love it. The Java finches are so cute!
Hi, I rinse it before bed and first thing in the morning. It shouldn't dry out unless it's very hot in your house. You could put it on a wet cloth or wet paper towel.
I cut off a small piece and hung it near a perch in their cage abd they started to eat it. They preferred to eat it in the cage instead of out of the cage. I found that they were afraid of the large piece so its best to give a small piece at first.
Thats great that you sprout. My birds love sprouted foods. Here is a video that I made on sprouting ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Eu-PKfUz04.html
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Hi! I tried sprouting mine and today is the fourth day and it was going very well and I started to be able to see sprouts, but then I saw mold growing on the millet in multiple places. How do I keep the millet from molding?
Hi, make sure when you rinse it that it is on a strainer and not sitting in water as that can make them grow mold. Also you can rinse it with vinegar and water. Rinse in cold water. Rinse, shake off water and put in strainer, shake strainer so that no water collects. Fill a jar with cold water and add some white vinegar and put millet in and spin jar to clean the millet. Don't spin or shake to hard or millet may come loose.
Hi there! I was wondering after you soak the millet and take it out do you keep wetting it? Mine seems to dry very quickly once I have it out laying out and I am running it back under water. It’s been two days and I do t see any growth at all. I think I’m doing it wrong. Many people said this is very hard to do and none of them were able to manage. You on the other hand made a bunch. HELP ME PLEASE lol 😂
Hi, you have to wet it 2 or 3 times a day like I mentioned in the video or it will dry out and not grow. It usually starts to grow after 4 days. Hope this helps 😀
@@Loveofpets That’s what I started doing and it’s sprouting!!!! I’m so excited. Thank you so much. I love your videos and all your birds and the dogs are beautiful!!! Have a great week ahead. Thank you again.