pairofkeets
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- Aug 17, 2014
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I adopted a 2nd parakeet about 7 mos. ago. She lives in a separate cage right next to my original parakeet. She seemed fine for a good number of months. When I changed brands of food, she wasn't eating good and loosing weight before I realized that something was wrong. Before this happened, I recently took her to a vet for another problem and he told me that getting them on pellets would be great. I began putting half seed half pellets in her dish. She wouldn't touch them. When I saw how quiet she was and suspected that she was probably quite hungry and seemed thinner I immediately gave her a millet spray to keep her from starving. She returned back to her normal self for now, but I am having a feeding issue. I am trying to offer her a 2nd dish of pellets mixed with a little jam as the vet recommended. She still wont touch it. I bought a different brand of seeds and she isn't crazy about it. I think I need to go back to the brand I had in the beginning, which is a cheaper brand, in order for her to eat more. My question is, does anyone know how to switch a picky eater over to pellets? If I can't succeed she will have to live off the cheap stuff. (no success with my other bird switching to pellets either) Thank you