Favorite Foods?

Piasa

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Beau 20 year old male Green Cheek || Jimmy Bullet 17 year old female white cap pionus parrot
What does your pi like to eat, particularly healthy stuff?

How have you tricked your pi into eating not-so-tasty healthy stuff?

I've been trying new things for Jimmy since her diet is pretty crummy and would love some ideas.

Some things that have worked for her that she really likes:
bok choy (stems and leaves, but mostly leaves)
milkthistle seeds
bell pepper (she only eats the orange ones though)
wild violets

She seems very plant-oriented, so anything that is in a pot and she can pull a leaf off generally gets tasted. Chopped veggies (even leafy ones) in a bowl get ignored.
 

RavensGryf

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English Budgie
Some of Raven's all time absolute favorite foods are:
Harrison's pellets. Every day he literally runs to the bowl and eats like he hasn't seen food in days. I honestly think he loves it more than his treats, it's like candy to him for some reason lol.

His other top favorite foods are red bell pepper, raw yam, peas (without the pod, just the seeds).

Those things are the staples that he must have, and he never ever gets tired of them, always excited for it every day lol. He will always eat those things before anything else.
 

Terry57

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Hawkhead(Darwin),YCA(Dexter),VE (Ekko),OWA(Slater),BHP(Talli),DYH(Calypso),RLA(Kimera),Alex(Xander)CBC(Phoe),IRN (Kodee,Luna,Stevie),WCP (Pisces),CAG(Justice)GCC (Jax), GSC2(Charley)
Pisces eats everything, but her favourites are corn on the cob and carrots. Talli is a strawberry fanatic, but also likes a whole leaf of kale hung in his cage.
I cook sweet potatoes flavoured with cinnamon and cayenne, mash them up, and then hide some almond slivers in there...they have to eat some sweet potato to get to the almond.
 

Lynsey

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Fonzie - White Capped Pionus (male) - Hatched 5/24/14
Betty - Brown Headed Parrot (female) - Hatched 12/15/22
Fonzie's favorite food is definitely almonds! But he likes hot peppers, snap peas, hibiscus flowers and he loves cilantro!
 

JKIII

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My BHP faves are cashews, almonds, apple, banana, carrot and kale. He likes his Harrison's too, but not as much as he once did.
 

Marileen

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Harry-Male-African Grey born in 2000
Toon-Male-African Grey born in 2001
Bob-Male-Budgie born in 2014
My 2 Grey Boys Harry and Toon don't like seed mix .... only sprouted seeds.
They are crazy about pellets (Harrisons and Nutribird)............ chop.....fruits .... vegetables .... oatmeal .... birdybread and so on.
So really just healthy things.
Sometimes they get a coockie.....usually cinnamon cookies.
The same goes for my little Bleu Boy Bob.
:) :)
 

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