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So you do everything all mixed? Then later do you put out more dry foods alone or only feed in meals like this? I wander if this will help my kid try more chop if he has to pick through it for his other stuffToday's bowls! I'm still experimenting with mixing everyone's pellets and seeds into their chop. So far I feel like everyone has been eating better!
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Yes everything is mixed. It's still a work in progress so I don't have a concrete system going. Right now the littles (Linnie and Bourkes) are eating almost all of the chop; the chop that is left dries out. Then they are only eating the leftover dry pellets and seeds the rest of the time, so I've been just giving them this one meal with their whole day's food allotment at once. Realistically I should be doing two meals but it's working.So you do everything all mixed? Then later do you put out more dry foods alone or only feed in meals like this? I wander if this will help my kid try more chop if he has to pick through it for his other stuff
Thanks! We have a baby GCC - he came home still on 3x a day hand feedings (didn’t realize how bad that could go as my literal first baby bird, and only 3rd bird ever, until finding this forum )Yes everything is mixed. It's still a work in progress so I don't have a concrete system going. Right now the littles (Linnie and Bourkes) are eating almost all of the chop; the chop that is left dries out. Then they are only eating the leftover dry pellets and sees the rest of the time, so I've been just going them this one meal with their whole day's food allotment at once. Realistically I should be doing two meals but it's working.
For Ripley ( Jardine's) I am giving him another dry portion later in the day because he doesn't eat as much of the chop overall.
Worth a shot!Thanks! We have a baby GCC - he came home still on 3x a day hand feedings (didn’t realize how bad that could go as my literal first baby bird, and only 3rd bird ever, until finding this forum )
The parrotlets clean their bowl of any and all chop. I introduced him to warm steamed and mashed fresh foods and chop and he has not taken a liking to it yet at all even being introduced to it early at the same time as his pellets and things.
he is now on just a nightly formula feeding and chows down on any pellet, seed, nut etc but still will touch a veggie with his tongue and fling it and move on. So I may start offering it mixed then still offer just dry food later in the day so he still eats enough if the chop discourages him from eating much out of that bowl.
Looks amazing have you tried feeding your gcc in his cage mine eat better for some reason in their cage so at two they go back to cages for veggies 14:/16The parrotlets(Cosmo and Wanda), Squeak(GCC that probably won’t touch this but we keep trying)
Then a giant salad for our iguana - because they eat a lot of the same foods so I prep meals at the same time
Yes we have tried in cage and out of cage. He came to us not started on any foods, just formula and I have tried since he was 5 weeks old to offer fresh foods at the same time as teaching him to eat pellets, seeds etc and he still won’t touch them! I didn’t think it would be this hard to get him to eat fresh foods if it was introduced as a baby alongside other things.Looks amazing have you tried feeding your gcc in his cage mine eat better for some reason in their cage so at two they go back to cages for veggies 14:/16
Just have to keep trying sometimes it’s just finding right way to serve but then some birds just won’t touch them no matter how hard you try just have to keep trying and hope one day he doesYes we have tried in cage and out of cage. He came to us not started on any foods, just formula and I have tried since he was 5 weeks old to offer fresh foods at the same time as teaching him to eat pellets, seeds etc and he still won’t touch them! I didn’t think it would be this hard to get him to eat fresh foods if it was introduced as a baby alongside other things.