How do I feed my Green Cheek Conure eggs?

tweetya

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Hello!

My Green Cheek Conure is 4 months old and he's a picky eater. He's on a seed diet and likes to eat apples. I tried feeding him vegetables multiple times, he licks it but doesn't eat it.

Previously I tried feeding him hard-boiled eggs, but he doesn't like that either. Today I cooked him scrambled eggs, and to no avail, he doesn't like that.

This is my first time raising a Green Cheek Conure and I am not sure if I am doing it right??

I need help with changing his diet!!
 

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Hi and welcome!
Where are you located (as in country)?
Is he eating solid foods on his own in general? 8-12 weeks is the general time-frame for which they should remain at the seller if they are not weaned...
How long have you had him?
 

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When you offer other foods are the seeds still available?

Seeds are the preferred food of most parrots and they will go for them before any other option.

In the wild birds are high performance athletes who require a massive amount of energy to support the huge distances that they fly. Seeds are a great choice to fill that need.

Captive birds still have the instinct to take in that same amount of energy. They still see themselves as high performance athletes. Unfortunately for them we have turned them into couch potatoes.

With such a young bird take the seed away when you introduce new foods. At first your bird will just explore them and play with them until they work out that they are edible.

If after a couple of hours they haven't made any head way take the new item away and let them have the seed back. The idea is that they will be hungry and try the new food but you don't want to starve them.
 
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I'm located in Canada. He is eating solid food on his own, but when we introduce him to a new food we would feed him by hand. He was hand-fed by the seller. We've had him for exactly 3 weeks. He hates being in his cage even if his food is in there. We have to put him in his cage forcefully just so he can eat. If we don't, he won't eat at all.
 
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birdiemama

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Besides seeds, do you have millet sprays in the cage? I know my bird loves the millet. I also put one on top of the cage to encourage him to remain ON the cage instead of on ME all the time. It is a slow process but little by little progress is being made. Also, I noticed that offering a piece of carrot or broccoli AWAY from the cage, he seems more likely to try the new item.
 
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tweetya

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Besides seeds, do you have millet sprays in the cage? I know my bird loves the millet. I also put one on top of the cage to encourage him to remain ON the cage instead of on ME all the time. It is a slow process but little by little progress is being made. Also, I noticed that offering a piece of carrot or broccoli AWAY from the cage, he seems more likely to try the new item.

I do have millet sprays inside the cage. He loves it as well. I tried feeding him raspberries today, he actually tried it but it was sour so he didn't eat all of it. He's doing better with trying to eat new fruits but not so much with the veggies.:gcc:
 

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The idea is to slowly reduce the amount of seeds and increase the amount of pellets and or veggies. A good quality pellet is so much better for them than seeds. For veggies, try chopping up a jalepeno pepper into small little chunks and mix that in with his foods. Most parrots love them and they are quite good for them nutricianally. The hotter the better. We put those and habenero and even ghost peppers in his chop.
 

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Hi :)

I wouldn’t feed egg to a bird that I wasn’t trying to stimulate hormonally for breeding, or put weight on after an illness.

Please DO NOT offer millet spray as anything other than a high value treat for training, never as part of the regular diet. It’s essentially birdie French fries and should be very limited if fed at all.

You actually don’t want to make your bird HUNGRY to try to get him to eat; hungry birds are nervous birds and nervous birds don’t try new foods. You want to make your baby CURIOUS to get him to try new things :)

Check out the tips in this article. The link to the sprouting page is broken and I’m trying to fix it but if you search the articles on the website it is there!

http://silversageaviaries.com/quick-start-guide-to-parrot-nutrition/


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