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what else i can possiblly give as a food for a parekeet she eats only sunflower seeds2007-11-24 17:25:44

i already tried to give her different ones but she just dont like it. but im worried coz i want her to get some more nutritions from other foods too, not only from seeds..

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We give our parakeet (aside from regular feed). apple slices, carrot pieces some with the greens, lettuce, bannana slices, also special treats for the pet store.

A vet told us once and I'm not sure I wholly believe this, that a parakeet is omnivorous. It will and can eat almost any food including chicken off of a drum stick. Never tried it though and not sure I will.

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can you try small fruits and vegetables?

i dont know, i dont have a bird.. but maybe they like carrots or lettuce or something.

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Try Grapes or Cheese

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Try giving her thawed out frozen peas, Millet is always good, some chopped up fruit is good too. She may just be picky and you may have to try several things before she finds something she likes other than JUST sunflower seeds.

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Dry bread or bread crumbs. I seenit on one of these do it yourself shows. She used lard and put into whatever shape and presed a variety of bird seed, bread crumbs and hung it.

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Give it some fruit. They love that kind of stuff. :)

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You can't let her eat just the sunflower seeds, would be like letting your kid eat just potato chips. My conure would eat nothing but sunflower seeds if I let her, so I've gotten to the point where I feed her every other day, this way she gets the seeds she likes and eats the other food because she has to. Not to her liking, but she is now getting a better rounded meal.

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chopped up fruits n vegies

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Birds get addictaed to sunflower seeds, you need to take away the sunflower seeds all together and just give parakeet food. The longer you wait the more addicted she will become.Thay get cranky with out the sunflower seeds sometimes at first, so it might get a little noisy.