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I have bought alot of nuts from Meijers (great deal) Do I need to shell these befor giving them to my B&G. He seems to really like shelling them .

I never shell our birds nuts, they love cracking into them.

My B&G prefers unshelled nuts! There's not much he won't do to get one. I give him about 3 nuts a day and I use them as rewards instead of just putting them in his food bowl.

Let your B&G do the work!! They need this forging (sp?) time. Mine love to mess with their nuts in shell!!

Natures best invention, to shell a nut, apply one huge MACAW beak! Man o man can they go through 'em in a heart beat. Ever watch them? They have it down to a science... using their massive beak and tiny tongue they can move that nut around and crack it just right without droping it and leaving the meat in their beak and the shell goes crashing down... ha ha ha got to love it.

Our birds would think something was wrong with only couple of nuts a day. They need them, all of ours get an assortment of Almonds, macadamin(sp) walnuts, Brazil, Pine ect.Everyday