Converting a budgie from seeds to pellets

Pianotes

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Jan 26, 2020
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Hi,

Iā€™m trying to convert my young budgie (Phil) from a base diet of seeds to pellets. He does eat vegetables, sprouts and other healthy food, but Iā€™d like him to eat pellets. Iā€™d appreciate any advice. :)
Iā€™m using Harrisonā€™s Organic Pellets (high potency, super fine).

So far, Iā€™ve added some water to his pellets to make a sort of ā€˜pellet pasteā€™: I then add this to his vegetables. Heā€™s started eating them as of last week. Phil also ate a normal, dry pellet once!šŸ˜ My plan is to keep feeding him this pellet paste until he eats it readily. After this, Iā€™ll add some dry pellets on top of the pellet paste. Iā€™ll then gradually reduce the amount of water, (so that Phil is just eating the normal dry pellets).

However, heā€™s moulting right now, so should I increase the amount of dry pellets after heā€™s finished moulting?

Thank you :whiteblue: :)
 

Scott

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I'll defer overall dietary advice to our budgie experts!

Generally, creativity is needed when converting from seeds to pellets. I converted my entire flock to Harrison's and found their protocol helpful with 100% success. In case you have not seen their "diet conversion for small birds:" https://www.harrisonsbirdfoods.com/using-our-foods/small-bird-conversion/
 

Laurasea

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My budgies eat seeds, veggies and pellets. I offer pellets for my other parrots. Then I noticed the budgies eating them too! They aren't limited on seeds, they just have lots of other stuff offered. And they love to eat the veggies and pellets to.
 

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