Tabbiespice
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Hi guys and gals
I have a young Galah (Rose breasted Cockatoo for you US folks) and I think he has been badly hand raised in that his diet is shocking!
He wont eat anything except black and striped sunflower seeds.
I feel like I am slowly killing him but he wont eat anything else.
I buy a good parrot mix which has the sunflower seeds in them (I cant find a seed mix without) and I have even gone as far as picking them all out but then he wont eat at all.
I have offered him a variety of fresh foods, both fruit and veggies but he eyes them suspiciously and will go to the other end of the cage away from them until I remove them.
So I then tried the pellets and over the last 10 days have introduced them into his feed bowl as instructed........mix them 50:50 with seed and a little hot water and over the course of a week decrease the seed ratio and eventually end up with dry pellets.
Well we were at the stage of mostly pellets and a little seed and this morning I awoke to a starving Galah begging for food.
He has visibly lost condition and weight since I have tried to reduce his sunflower seed intake.
What can I do??? I am so worried.
He needs fresh foods and less sunflowers but he wont accept anything.
help!
I have a young Galah (Rose breasted Cockatoo for you US folks) and I think he has been badly hand raised in that his diet is shocking!
He wont eat anything except black and striped sunflower seeds.
I feel like I am slowly killing him but he wont eat anything else.
I buy a good parrot mix which has the sunflower seeds in them (I cant find a seed mix without) and I have even gone as far as picking them all out but then he wont eat at all.
I have offered him a variety of fresh foods, both fruit and veggies but he eyes them suspiciously and will go to the other end of the cage away from them until I remove them.
So I then tried the pellets and over the last 10 days have introduced them into his feed bowl as instructed........mix them 50:50 with seed and a little hot water and over the course of a week decrease the seed ratio and eventually end up with dry pellets.
Well we were at the stage of mostly pellets and a little seed and this morning I awoke to a starving Galah begging for food.
He has visibly lost condition and weight since I have tried to reduce his sunflower seed intake.
What can I do??? I am so worried.
He needs fresh foods and less sunflowers but he wont accept anything.
help!