Pionus with Dry Skin

I have been working on improving my pionus's diet since I got her. She is a rather stodgy adult who is very resistant to change and still doesn't recognize fresh foods as something to eat. It's garbage I put in her food bowl, apparently.

I haven't given up yet after a few years of trying to trick her into eating new things. She has chronically dry skin on her feet, and I assume her whole body. Is the anything i can particularly focus on for a new food that would help with this?

What food is she eating now?
Do you bath her?
Have you tried to eat with her? (if she allowed to eat at dinner table)

Try to give her Pigeon seed mix (sprout) ones a week for a start. It's good, gives a lot of vitamins, protein and not so much fat.

If you allowed her to eat at dinner table you will soon have a bird that eats everything. It's natural for them to eat with their family members so they try everything that you are eating.

This is Eloy: http://www.parrotforums.com/general-parrot-information/22897-favorite-meal.html
As you can see he is enjoying to eat the same thing as I do.
And I love it too! <3

Red palm oil or coconut oil can be added too food that can help add a humidifier if your home has central heat and air. as for getting them to eat things they don't see as food you have to use their couriosity against them make it seem like they are missing out by not enjoying what your eating another this is if you have a friend with a brd who eats their veggies and fruits have them over for a birdy picnic where your bird watches them eat said foods.

Eloy said:

What food is she eating now?
Do you bath her?
Have you tried to eat with her? (if she allowed to eat at dinner table)

Try to give her Pigeon seed mix (sprout) ones a week for a start. It's good, gives a lot of vitamins, protein and not so much fat.

If you allowed her to eat at dinner table you will soon have a bird that eats everything. It's natural for them to eat with their family members so they try everything that you are eating.

This is Eloy: http://www.parrotforums.com/general-parrot-information/22897-favorite-meal.html
As you can see he is enjoying to eat the same thing as I do.
And I love it too! <3

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Izzy is eating a local mix that has safflower, sunflower, almonds, dried fruit, oat groats, millet, flaked corn, chickpeas, split peas, pumpkin seed, hemp seed, brewers rice, dehydrated coconut, and a few other things. She likes the dried papaya, pumpkin seeds, sun and safflower seeds, chickpea and the almonds. Hard to tell how much she is eating of any of it.

She loves spray baths and I try to do that with her every few days.

i tried to have her at the dinner table, but she doesn't seem interested in what we are eating. Just fluffs, stands on one foot and relaxes. Eloy is so cute!

friedsoup said:

Red palm oil or coconut oil can be added too food that can help add a humidifier if your home has central heat and air. as for getting them to eat things they don't see as food you have to use their couriosity against them make it seem like they are missing out by not enjoying what your eating another this is if you have a friend with a brd who eats their veggies and fruits have them over for a birdy picnic where your bird watches them eat said foods.

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I've gone through three bottles of Harrison's AviBooster with red palm oil, but no obvious change... She doesn't seem to care what we eat or what the other birds eat. Izzy is very self-contained.

RedFeather said:

i tried to have her at the dinner table, but she doesn't seem interested in what we are eating. Just fluffs, stands on one foot and relaxes.

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But if you let her eat "her" food" at dinner table, this can be a start.
I think you should give her, her feed mix only twice a day and not as much as she wants. I thinks the biggest problem is that she is satisfied with her feed mix but from now on she must try another food if she not have feed mix all the time. Dont give up!

Eloy is so cute!

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Thanks!

Also try a chop mix, finally chopped vegetables are sometimes more enticing. There's also a mister called Rain for birds, it's just water and aloe and may sooth her skin.