Cthebird
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- Sep 19, 2017
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- I now have a young Hahn's macaw. I used to have a Pacific Parrotlet that lived until almost 15. Before that I had a budgie.
Hi. I actually have a mini macaw and not a conure, but mini macaws are much closer to the size of conures than the very large macaws, so I hope no one minds if I post my question here.
I feed my mini macaw a variety of foods. His base food is Harrison's pellets in his cage. I've also feed him lots of fresh fruit and veggies daily, plus some nuts (for example, yesterday in his dish he had fresh mango, fresh Mandarin orange segments, about 4 blueberries, one strawberry, a grape tomato, yellow pepper slice, celery leaves, 4 unsalted pistachios in the shell, and a few almonds). In addition, in his play gym food dish I give him some foods from this macaw mix my goofy husband bought meant for large macaws. He eats some of it, but the smallest enough in that for him to eat is not that nutritious, in my book (some seeds, corn, dried something or other, dried fruit, etc.) He has fresh water in both his cage and a bowl on his play gym. I also give him red pepper flakes, and a small amount of "treat" stuff, like mango yogurt bits, dried peas and green beans.
I think we need to replace that big macaw food with a high quality nutritious but very appealing medium sized bird food, keeping the Harrison's for the cage. He's out of the cage a lot, though does return to it on his own sometimes. Any suggestions for that good medium bird food for his play gym?
We've tried to feed him organic mash and mash cookies, but he doesn't like it. We don't invite him to our meals because he creates chaos. I sometimes give him some (i.e. brown rice, fish, cooked veggie), but he doesn't eat much of it unless he sees us eating it.
I want him to gain weight. He's kind of skinny, though very healthy and extremely active.
I feed my mini macaw a variety of foods. His base food is Harrison's pellets in his cage. I've also feed him lots of fresh fruit and veggies daily, plus some nuts (for example, yesterday in his dish he had fresh mango, fresh Mandarin orange segments, about 4 blueberries, one strawberry, a grape tomato, yellow pepper slice, celery leaves, 4 unsalted pistachios in the shell, and a few almonds). In addition, in his play gym food dish I give him some foods from this macaw mix my goofy husband bought meant for large macaws. He eats some of it, but the smallest enough in that for him to eat is not that nutritious, in my book (some seeds, corn, dried something or other, dried fruit, etc.) He has fresh water in both his cage and a bowl on his play gym. I also give him red pepper flakes, and a small amount of "treat" stuff, like mango yogurt bits, dried peas and green beans.
I think we need to replace that big macaw food with a high quality nutritious but very appealing medium sized bird food, keeping the Harrison's for the cage. He's out of the cage a lot, though does return to it on his own sometimes. Any suggestions for that good medium bird food for his play gym?
We've tried to feed him organic mash and mash cookies, but he doesn't like it. We don't invite him to our meals because he creates chaos. I sometimes give him some (i.e. brown rice, fish, cooked veggie), but he doesn't eat much of it unless he sees us eating it.
I want him to gain weight. He's kind of skinny, though very healthy and extremely active.
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