Nycki and Anita met online helping a couple rehome two macaws to a lovely lady. They became fast Facebook friends and talked regularly about parrots, advising each other and exploring options together on whatever issues arose.

 

Anita had an extremely busy lifestyle yet continued in her dream of self-sustainability.  

 

Nycki, also very overworked, had been researching, making fresh chop with her friends by the bucket full and making parrot toys.  [side note: Through a series of events over the years, one of the those macaws now happily lives with Nycki and Anita.]   

 

During a conversation, Nycki was talking about her chop and Anita was researching freeze drying foods for 10-20 year shelf life without losing the nutritional value, but more importantly, without losing the flavor.

 

Her hobby farm wasn’t being utilized to its full potential and sometimes seemed more than Anita could handle on her own.

 

Nycki started talking about how she loved to garden, grow food and one conversation led to another.  

 

In June 2022, Nycki and her flock moved to Anita’s farm to try their hands at gardening organic food and freeze drying chop together. 

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The Prepared Parrot came about as they discovered that there was a need, especially after watching all the natural disasters on the weather channel, for a fully balance, nutritional chop and could be easily shipped and shelf sustainable.

 

Something so simple, that it could be easily shipped, then served “as is” or reconstituted by adding clean drinking water, juice or broth. 

 

Although Nycki had been making chop for years, freeze-drying has a learning curve that can’t be overlooked.  In addition, Anita was very focused on the packaging being environmentally friendly.  

 

Nycki loves giving her parrots vibrant colors and textures, Anita focused more on fun, form and function. Together, they have created superior functional and fun products for The Prepared Parrot