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Post by ladybird on Jun 25, 2019 8:45:24 GMT
Charlie is five months old. His basic food is Trill , and the egg food ( dried) ...plus of course millet ( he doesn’t get too much of that) . I would love him to have a more varied diet but he just won’t try things. The one exception is spinach , he loves that. I have tried lots of other things but he just won’t eat them. He has a mineral block, an iron block and of course cuttlefish. I am worried he will get a fatty liver? Are there better seeds than Trill?
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Post by jellybean on Jun 25, 2019 9:05:03 GMT
I fed my two boys Haith's Budgie Bravo. I ordered them Foreign Finch Mix this morning also from Haith's.
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Post by ladybird on Jun 25, 2019 10:24:13 GMT
Thank you jellybean I will look into that.
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Post by jellybean on Jun 25, 2019 10:33:40 GMT
Try growing millet grass for him my two love it. Or wild seeding grass if you have fields nearby.
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Post by OP on Jun 25, 2019 10:53:32 GMT
Mine are now on Jeff & Johnson or is it Johnson & jeff, which ever it is they love it. Aprt from their meat and two veg they love any fresh greens. I brought home some celery with new leaves growing in it. I cut the leaves and tied them together and run the under the tap.You should have heard the commotion and seen the feathers fluff up. That was as I was approaching the cage. They loved it, bathing in it and eating it and ripping it to shreds.
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Post by ladybird on Jun 25, 2019 11:33:37 GMT
I apologise for being thick, but how do I grow millet grass? I have tried him on celery tops with no luck......got a fussy boy 🙄🙄
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Post by jellybean on Jun 25, 2019 11:41:33 GMT
Put some compost in a smallish pot. Take a piece of millet (just a portion of a spray) and take off the bobbles, I do that into a sieve, when you've separated them I blow the husks off, and your left with fresh millet. Then sprinkle them over the compost, water on a daily basis with a spray bottle, and within about 2 weeks you can feed them to your birdie. My boys seem to like them better when they're small, before they grow too big, don't know why, maybe they taste different 😁
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Post by ladybird on Jun 25, 2019 12:20:53 GMT
Thank you jellybean, will definitely give it a try.......I have ordinary millet and red foxglove......would you mix it up?
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Post by jellybean on Jun 25, 2019 12:26:02 GMT
I'd do 2 seperate ones and see which they prefer. If they like them both you can cut some from each and pin them up. Good luck.
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Post by ladybird on Jun 25, 2019 16:12:47 GMT
Have placed an order with Haiths ....fingers crossed he likes it.......Wonder if it’s best to add it to the trill at first?
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Post by jellybean on Jun 25, 2019 16:23:46 GMT
I intend to do that with the finch mix and my original seed, get them used to it gradually.
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Post by ladybird on Jun 25, 2019 17:38:39 GMT
I also ordered the tonic seed. I will just add a bit of that about three times a week. I only ordered a kilo of the other seed because I wasn’t sure how long it kept for. I will obviously keep them in airtight containers..... I thought the tonic seed would be good for him because he is still having his first moult....been going on for over three weeks now, but he hasn’t been off colour .
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Post by Hezz on Jun 25, 2019 18:48:33 GMT
I suggested the finch mix to jellybean because of Max's liver issue; I had done a lot of reading when one of my boys first started to show symptoms, and one of the recommendations was to use finch seed mix, which cut out all, or most of the fatty seeds that are constantly used to bulk up budgie mixes. There is nothing in a finch mix that the budgies can't have. I got tired of pulling out the oats and oil seeds. Trill used to be okay, but I certainly wouldn't go back to it at all. As Charlie bonds, he will want to get into everything you do, and this is where you can introduce him to more and more fresh food. Sprouts are great - human food grade or bird seed. Don't feed spinach every day - things like spinach and kale bind up the calcium in other foods making it harder for the birds to absorb it. Baby spinach is not really spinach, so that's okay (as far as I know!) I would put the majority of your 1kg seed into the freezer and keep only about a third out at any one time - seed does get old, best keep it as fresh as possible.
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Post by helenmat on Jun 25, 2019 19:07:41 GMT
I use Top Top budgie mix from Haith's, because it contains a tonic and no groats. Haith's recommended it as a good overall feed.
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Post by ladybird on Jun 25, 2019 19:15:34 GMT
Hezz thank you so much for all the information, I really appreciate it.....I have been giving him spinach almost every day, plus trying other veg..... Regarding freezing the seed, will I need to dry it somehow once it has defrosted?
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