Ashilde
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- Jul 23, 2019
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Hello everyone! Just wanted to quickly thank everyone for their support in motivating me to adopt the white-winged parakeet I saw at a pet store. Once I got his paperwork, I found that the poor baby had almost been there for a whole year in a cramped cage and fed pretty much only seed. He now has a roomy cage with a play pen at the top, spoiled rotten with toys, and free reign, and though he's learned to step up and is already very trusting, I can't for the life of him convince him to eat pellets, fresh fruit/veggies/sprouts or chop.
I've tried burying seed under pellets, grinding pellets and sprinkling over seed, introducing an array of fresh veggies/fruit separately and/or in a chop and even tried to make him watch me eat a little so he knows it's good, but he just upturns his beak like a petulant little brat! I've at times taken away what he is used to and left the veggie/fruit in there for hours early morn when he usually he pigs out, but he won't touch it at all and I eventually cave in around noon and give him what he wants because I don't want to let him starve.
Can you guys share ways you've been able to introduce your baby's to a better diet? It kills me to watch him only dig out sunflower seeds and walnuts all the time -- heck, he barely even touches his millet spray.
I've tried burying seed under pellets, grinding pellets and sprinkling over seed, introducing an array of fresh veggies/fruit separately and/or in a chop and even tried to make him watch me eat a little so he knows it's good, but he just upturns his beak like a petulant little brat! I've at times taken away what he is used to and left the veggie/fruit in there for hours early morn when he usually he pigs out, but he won't touch it at all and I eventually cave in around noon and give him what he wants because I don't want to let him starve.
Can you guys share ways you've been able to introduce your baby's to a better diet? It kills me to watch him only dig out sunflower seeds and walnuts all the time -- heck, he barely even touches his millet spray.