Alembic772
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- May 13, 2020
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Basil - 22yr male SI Eclectus
River - male GCC
Nemo - female BCC - handicapped
Summer - female pineapple gcc
Rainbow - male yellow side gcc
Lando - male black headed caique
Paprika - female SI eclectu
Hello everyone. Paprika turned 18 weeks this past Wednesday. She is doing good and starting to jump on me if I am in the shower. She soaks herself pretty good and then I wrap her up in a towel because she is still young and shivers like crazy.
Anyways, I am still having to feed her twice a day between 25-30ml. I am not trying to wean her over to pellets so I am serving all of the time fresh veggies, fruits, spinach, sweet potato, cooked legumes and millet, brown rice, and many others. I vary it up. I give different sizes of the cut up stuff to see what she likes. She will eat the stuff in the bowl, but she is still screaming by 9am if I don’t feed her the formula and same by around 8pm. She literally will attack the syringe and try to feed herself with it if she sees it.
I know they can take longer than other species to wean. I am just asking for some advice from others who have done this process themselves. Basil didn’t take this long but he was also weaned to pellets.
Thanks!
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Anyways, I am still having to feed her twice a day between 25-30ml. I am not trying to wean her over to pellets so I am serving all of the time fresh veggies, fruits, spinach, sweet potato, cooked legumes and millet, brown rice, and many others. I vary it up. I give different sizes of the cut up stuff to see what she likes. She will eat the stuff in the bowl, but she is still screaming by 9am if I don’t feed her the formula and same by around 8pm. She literally will attack the syringe and try to feed herself with it if she sees it.
I know they can take longer than other species to wean. I am just asking for some advice from others who have done this process themselves. Basil didn’t take this long but he was also weaned to pellets.
Thanks!
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