paddy melon

[matcho]

Deb,
If you can get them, use them, the Major in the photo doesn't look too bad does he? Reckon they are full of goodness and reckon they could also be, in times of dry weather a moisture source.

No worries Deb, if I had parrots and access to those I would use them. Comparable to us finchies harvesting all the small seeding grasses.

[jusdeb]

Ill try it out slowly me thinks ...let you know how they go with it ...

Gave them figs not long ago thinking they would love them pfffft I was wrong .

[matcho]

Hello All,

I always thought that a paddymelon was a sub-species of a wallaby!!!

Cheers
Ripley

Yes Ripley they are,
Trouble is, it is recorded as "Pademelon", (Scientifically) they taste a sh..t load better than them melons, nicely stewed over a fire with any vegies you have on hand. Much harder to skin than the real "paddymelons", and run a whole lot faster. Been there, done that. If all I had were the vegie kind of "paddymelons" probably wouldn't be here.

[Tintola]

..Cant feed them to the birds though , they would choke on the fur ....

Wedge-tailed Eagles love them Deb!

[natamambo]

Do you mean paddy melon or afghan melon? The true paddy melon is small, about the size of a golf ball and yellow and is a true melon. The afghan melon is a wild relative of the watermelon (actually the watermelon is a cultivated variety of this plant and possibly a subspecies).

Both melons can be toxic in large enough quantities so make sure lots of other feed sources are available.

The pademelon, as others have indicated is not a melon, but a marsupial. One case where common names with different spellings mean quite different "things".

[jusdeb]

Think its the afghan melon as Ive always known Paddy melons to be the yellow , small melons .

[Nrg800]

Cant feed them to the birds though , they would choke on the fur ....

Don't speak too soon!
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[Jayburd]

[jusdeb]

Good one NRG ...lokks like Pademelons are good for birds lol

[djb78]

Deb if your going to try it put on a half cut one I'm with pair to try and keep giving them to one flight at a time that way you'll see who's eating it and who's not liking it. As for figs I found the same outcome that not 1 bird even touched it, funny how a fully rip fig tree can be striped in a couple of days with wild birds and my birds won't even touch it.