Medira cake????

[VR1Ton]

Haven't had any cake disasters (yet) but have done the egg trick. I've also been filling a fish tank while the washing machine was going, answered the phone, come back a little while later to check, not realising the washing machine had finished, all pressure back to the hose, and a 3 meter square swimming carpet. Got one hell of an ass kicking over that.

[jusdeb]

My computer disasters happen when the "not to be trusted " princess Milly goes out the back to relieve herself , I quickly jump on to check emails , forget the princess only to find my gawjus little tan girl is up to the armpits in red mud ...every time.

[Finchy]

This sounds like fun...

But in all seriousness, in answer to the original question, no you should not be feeding your birds Madeira cake, except perhaps as a rare treat.

There's really no reason to give birds something so unhealthy as sugar (think: fungal infections that kill birds!) and processed white flour when they are happy to eat so many other things that are much more nutritious/less detrimental. It's odd that this habit ever got started in domestic aviculture - but even odder why it continues when we know better.

[jusdeb]

Yes thats true finchy ....processed sugar and flour are the bane of the modern world . Mine rarely get it only because I eat too much of it therefore I try not to have it in the house .
We kill our pets with kindness sometimes . My parents beer drinking , biscuit eating Aussie Terrier had a shocking time with diabetes and died early due to kidney problems all bought about bu eating human food , can only assume the same problems would arise in birds also, only may not be easily diagnosed .
Thanks for your post , made me remember quarrions dont eat Kettle chips or scotch finger biscuits in the wild. Bad bird mama.