first time parents

Hi, I have a budgie pair and their chicks are recently hatched 5 days ago, everything was going great until male decided to feed the chicks, I observed the male is feeding the chicks whole millets(without chewing/breaking the seeds)and the chicks are spitting them out, chicks then get tired of...

Our 2 Alexandrines have manged to hatch their first chick, there was 3 eggs, 2 hatched but alas one chick didn't make it but one has survived and mom is very protective over the remaining chick