Cockatiels Sugar
How to get my cockatiel to try new foods?
My cockatiel is such a sugar brain and will only eat sugary foods. Like pop chips she got into them one day and ever since then I have been trying to feed her healthy stuff like carrots and stuff but she now thinks that if she doesn’t eat then she will get more chips. She has gone days without eating before! She eats some seeds but I wanted to feed her other things too. What foods should I give her that are healthy and make her stop being an addict to chips!?
If a food is totally new to a bird, it may not even recognize it as food. Offer new food in a familiar dish with other foods you know your bird already likes, and he or she may try the new food. Even if your bird only gets a taste of the new food by accident they still might decide they like it.
Place a couple of treats such as sunflower seeds, raisins or cheerios in a dish of new food. Your bird will likely get a taste of the new food while extracting the treat (the key here is to only use a couple of the treats and make your bird dig through the new food to get to them).
Offering new foods first thing in the morning is helpful, since this is when many birds naturally forage for food. Offer new foods alone first thing in the morning, and then give them their usual food a couple of hours later.
Try different forms of new foods – some birds prefer raw vegetables to cooked, while others are the opposite. Some like cooked veggies warm, others prefer them cooled. Some birds might be more willing to taste a puree or even juice made from new vegetables.
A food that is ignored in a food dish might be eaten if offered in a clip on the side of the cage or in a play area. Try weaving greens through the bars of the cage, and using a clip for slices of vegetable or fruits.
Offer a chunk of corn on the cob, which many birds like to gnaw on.
Bright orange or yellow fruits and vegetables often attract attention Try a mix of brightly colored veggies, in bite sized pieces and mixed together (cooked or raw).
Give leafy greens freshly washed and still wet and hung from a clip. The droplets of water may attract your birds attention.
Offer foods after you have a bite – watching you eat the food may be all the temptation your parrot needs. Try making a fuss, acting like this is the best food you have ever had, and maybe even feed some to another family member to help convice your parrot that this is something he/she really wants to eat!
Most birds enjoy eating freshly sprouted seeds, which are an excellent source of nutrition and are often helpful in enticing birds to make the leap from seeds to greens.
Never starve a bird into trying a new food.
More of Molly and Sugar Bear Playing;Buttercup,the Cockatiel singing in the background
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