Fussy eaters

[nala69]

I have 2 young cock birds that will only eat budgie seed and spinach I have tried them on various fruits and other green leaf salad and vegetable leaves they just look at them and ignore them but when I put spinach in there cage they gulp it down . I desperately want them to eat various fruit and veg can anybody give me some advice on how to wean them on to other foods

[Hezz]

Hide other foods, leafy greens in with the spinach; maybe wrap something like carrot or apple in the spinach and peg it up. Really, it is all about being persistent, even though it is soul destroying to have them refuse your offerings again and again and again. If you don't keep trying, it will that day that you don't put something different in for them, that would have been the day they would have tried something new. You just have to keep on keeping on. Find varying ways to present the other vegetables as well - try big hunks, thin slivers, grated all together in a bowl ..... etc.

[cat227]

May 11, 2018 19:42:50 GMT nala69 said:

I have 2 young cock birds that will only eat budgie seed and spinach I have tried them on various fruits and other green leaf salad and vegetable leaves they just look at them and ignore them but when I put spinach in there cage they gulp it down . I desperately want them to eat various fruit and veg can anybody give me some advice on how to wean them on to other foods

[cat227]

have you had any luck? I have had my mail budget for six months now and he has not touched anything at all not once! I have tried all different fruits all different vegetables I even tried basil and parsley I’ve tried tiny little pieces, big chunks in their food bowl, dipped in their favorite seed,hanging next to millet... you name it I’ve tried it and still nothing. I think because they were pet shop budgies and all they’ve eaten is seed there. I give them ecotourism essential blend. it says it has fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds and soybeans.
I still put “food” in their bowls though....... just in case. 🙄

[cat227]

apologies. i meant “ecotrition”

[nala69]

Both my budgies eat a variety of fruit and veg now once one started then the other one followed hope yours are eating now