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What can i feed my bird2007-11-24 17:25:12

I need help i dont know what to feed my bird he just wants to eat seeds(bird food) i try to feed him watermelons,salad,eggs but he doesnt even eat.

Answers:

Depends on the species:

If it is a Hookbill.that is a parrot, (If he has 4 toes, 2 facing forward and 2 facing back.that's what you have.)

I have Greys but it doesn't matter really.other than the size of what they eat.it's all pretty much the same. One could quibble about more calcium for African Greys and a higher fat content for Hyacinth Macaws, but I don't think that is what's going on here.

It will take while for you to get him off of seeds. It will happen but you must be patient. Keep offering him other things. Even stuff fromyour own plate. Eat good stuff in front of him to show him that it's good to eat.

75% of what you offer him is going to hit the floor. That's okay. Keep offering good food because one day, maybe a year from now he'll suddenly decide that he likes it. It took me 8 months to get a Quaker to eat anything but seed, but I did it. And you can too!

Feed the following:

don't feed mine the commercial seed mix any at all really. If you are feeding pellets, you are giving him a balanced seed diet. Pellets are partially made from seed.

Seed is not really a huge percentage of a Parrot's diet in the wild. The reason most people tend to feed seed is because when the boats containing the first wild-caught birds first arrived here, they were being fed seed. Of course they do eat some seed, but on the boats, seed is dry and doesn't spoil. It was an economical and convenient way to feed the birds during shipping.