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Pluckers’ Diet and Regimen
For: over preeners, plucker, twiddlers, shredders, scissorers:
Remove from the Diet all the following items.
ALL PELLETS forever more.
Spirulena
Soy
Dried Corn
Sweet Potato
ANYTHING with:
added sugar (look for the '-ose' on the end of the word.....that is sugar.)
added Salt
Peanuts
Wheat (unless listed as kamut or spelt....)
Anything with 'splits' ie: an item, usually corn or soy, used in more than one way in a product: as protein, whey, oil,fiber.....doesn't matter. If it's got splits in it you don't use it.
ADD: to the diet: Organic Grains......presoaked and cooked, presoaked and sprouted.
Organic raw veggies: leafy greens (no spinach and no chard, few beet tops)
Orange veggies.
Raw Fruit.
Legumes: peas, lentils, SMALL beans: all presoaked, drained, rinsed well and cooked.
ONLY WHOLE GRAIN PASTA.....no wheat.
Powdered Alfalfa leaf, Powdered Barley Grass, Powdered Kelp....in rotation daily.
Brewers Yeast: Every other day.
GROUND ORGANIC FLAX SEED: use a coffee mill.....grind fine: dust over wet food daily.
A good clean seed mix (sleek and sassy makes a good one).....combined with a combination of grains.....(you'll have to do this yourself, probably.) this is added on top of the wet foods with the supplements.
Daily soaking baths.
at least 20 minutes daily of fresh air and direct light (not through a window) when climatically feasible.
Also: there is a spray you can make up, to help relieve itching when new feathers are coming in,
1 TBS. Hylands Calendula spray
1 Tsp. chickweed extract-non alcohol or add a few drops boiling water
to evaporate alchohol: put into
2 cups water, keep in fridge up to one week. Remember to relieve itching, you need to spray on the skin, not
feathers that keep skin dry. Also itching is a symptom and rather than continually
applying relief, the reason should be sought.
This reginmen does work.......if the bird has been thoroughly gone over and tests run by a really good avian vet and the bird declared healthy. It takes a good six months.....three before you start to see improvement. What damage is done in a short time takes MUCH longer to repair....
but repair it does.
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