Problem I have is my budgies are very finicky; they only want to eat the foods that are "fun to them"; millet sticks (loaded with honey) and Avi-cakes (lots of sugar). They will not eat pellets! Your birds are used to you; it seems they know what to expect from you. You give them very nutritious food and they look so good. But I am not giving up; every time I see you video on feeding, it gives me hope that I can get them on a better diet.
Take the honey sticks away and Avi cakes. Take away seeds at night and offer pellets and fresh foods in the morning and they will get hungry and eat it.
I also give this stick that has seeds on it (not sure what it’s called) I give it to him every 2 weeks (assuming he doesn’t finish it) I give him lots of pellets and seeds, However his diet is pretty bad, so I’m trying to look for videos to see what he can eat.
This was the best weaning your birds onto fresh veggies video I've ever seen!! Love you added a little millet and oats to the veg to entice those picky beaks! This video seriously needs to go viral man! The bird world needs it! I will share on my community page tomorrow. Bird lovers United!💚🙏 #FlockPower
@@Loveofpets i think this will be super helpful for people 💖💖 i have a blog, do you mind if i share vids like this on there? It's just shared as an embedded vid💖
I have 4 very spoilt (and much-loved) zebra finches who eat a varied diet rich in fruits, veggies and seeds, but tend to gravitate towards millet, cucumber, lettuce, brown rice and egg yolk. Was lovely seeing your birds and seeing how you cater so well for their nutritional needs 🐦❤.
This is exactly what I learned this summer...so happy!! I now have an adorable male parakeet! He flew into my screened in pool this past summer! I then read everything I could about how to care for him! I had NO idea about birds! At 1st I was giving veg & some fruit cut up...but he was not interested! This chopped mix worked perfectly! He's so happy!! Bravo on your birdies & videos!! WE all appreciate your tips!! I'll add that I was thrilled to train myself & my little Woodstock...he will fly to me now & learning to get back to cage! I love that he can use my whole screened in pool area for flying...especially as most of the year is beautiful here! I also have a room for him to sleep in his cage at night... I make sure he gets 12 hours sleep nightly! Anyhoo... Thanks again!
I'm having trouble even getting my cockatiel to eat crumbles, its 80% of the food content in the bowl. the rest is small parrot seed mix. My cockatiels favorite are the grey sunflower seeds. Very interesting video, i'll need to pick up those attachable feeders and maybe that fruit kebab stick and clips.
If your seed mix has sunflower seeds, take them out. They should only get them as treats. If your bird won't eat the pellets yet you need to increase the seed ratio until they start to pick up bits of pellets, then gradually increase the pellets.
Great video. I hope more bird owners see it. As I find myself often saying to new bird owners to give fresh veggies and not just seeds. My budgies get something everyday. Yesterday was a bit of mango. Today they get salad and tomorrow a mixture of cauliflower and broccoli! I can't wait for summer for some fresh berries. And I hear some herbs such as sorrel, basil and chives are good too. I look forward to trying something new.
My Ringneck is a great eater also! I finally found that my parrotlet will eat veggies if I don't finely chop. So it's good to try different ways to offer it. Great video💜
Glad you showed this video. I'm always trying to get my budgies to eat fruits and vegetables, but they show little desire. I give them mixed veggies (peas, carrots, corn, green beans) but it seems most of it gets tossed around, winds up on the bottom of the cage. Placed in a blender but turned it into mush and soon it is spoiled. I'll try shredder or food processor, maybe just slice them down smaller. Only one of the 4 budgies will eat pellets; they love seeds, especially millet sticks; now I realize it's the honey on the millet sticks, so I'll avoid giving them that. I always enjoy seeing your birds: Rio, Electra, Monty, Jingles, Willow, bourkes, Sprinkles, Sky, Nugget, Sterling, Splash, etc,... and of course - Jack Sparrow.
Try chopping it smaller and sprinkle millet on top. Avoid those seed sticks as they are made with honey. Cook some quinoa or brown rice, my birds love it and then they usually start eating the other foods. Add oats to the mush to soak up the moisture.
My lovebirds are only a few months old and they don't want to eat veggies... but you've gave me some ideas, hopefully i'll get them to eat the veggies.
In winter I give my birds some cooked lentils and brown cooked rice in there chop mix. Broccoli is one of their favorites as well. Thank you for sharing this very informative video. 🐦
Thanks for your video! My birds love fruits but I don't have any success with vegetables. I will try to chop them, hope it helps. What they love is their pot of "cat-grass" (mostly from oats). They not only love to eat it, they also jump in and wallow in it, having fun as if it were a swimming pool 😅
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this an old vid but I HIGHLY recommend having your picky bird out with you while you chop up and interact with a vegetable or fruit. My little 3(?) year old lovebird is actually scared of fresh food.. So every day I reward her for biting/throwing the scary veggie around the table and she is slooooowly starting to eat it too lol
Very informative video 💖 the choppers method works best for most stubborn birds as well & that's exactly how I started for my budgies when they're home from breeder ☺
I made a beautiful chop and she wants nothing to do with it. Here’s my situation. I rescued her on Dec 11, 2023 from Kijiji. She’s a green cheek conure (1 1/2 years old) She was in this very tiny cage with no toys, she never had anything. This man who could hardly speak English had that cage right next to the front door so high up that she was almost on the ceiling, so not even at eye level. I don’t know for sure if she was neglected because she’s very friendly and sweet with me. They say this species likes to bite but mine doesn’t. He was feeding her seeds and sugary fruit loop cereal which made me buy her just to get her out of there. I need her to eat veggies, I at least got her to eat apples. She’s a sweetheart. Please help me. I threw his food in the trash and got her on pellets, thank God she loves them.
May I add a few tips? BirdTricks recommends mashing up a sweet potato or hardboiled eggs and mixing it in because it'll bind all the veggies together. Or adding in seed, then adding less and less. They also have an excellent chop recipe.
I have 2 budgies and my parakeets does not eat fruits or veggies, they only eat millets and basil leaves and almonds ,I really want them to eat veggies and I will surely try this
I have a bare eyed cockatoo that I rescued about 3 weeks ago. She has some slightly elevated liver enzymes due to her being on a strictly seed diet. I feel it’s urgent to get her transitioned over to to a healthy diet but she is so stubborn! She’s 25-35 years old and had never had a vegetable or fruit until a few weeks ago. She loves scrambled egg and oatmeal but she refuses almost all veggies and every single fruit. She won’t touch pellets but I do grind some up and mix it with her chop and anything else I offer her like her birdie bread. I’m just concerned about her health and I hate that I have to keep giving her seed since that’s what she’s use to.
Hi, congratulations on your new Cockatoo. Keep offering her veggies and some fruit. Take her food away at night and only offer her chop in the morning. She will eat it when hungry. Don't strange her though. Increase time each morning. Limit seeds and she should eat the fresh foods.
My little lovebird was a rescue from a neglect situation. She will not touch anything that isn't familiar to her. She prefers seeds, and love millet. I have offered other foods, in all the forms, but she's not bonded to me, and will bite when I offer other foods. At this point I wonder if she wouldn't be better off being put down. She's so dang skinny. She's scared of everything, and tends to freak out when I offer enrichment to her. Its been months and she's just as bad as she was when I got her.
At present my ringnecks and fishersare on sunflower..raw peanuts and apples what other fruits and veggies can i giv them they are in an avery 5mts by4.5 amd 2.1 high
My African Grey parrot Corky used to eat veges, apples & oranges when my Dad was still alive (Corky we Dads bird he raised from a hatchling, he was about 5 when Dad passed (2012). Unfortunately the only have he'd eat after Dad passed were carrots but that took almost 3 years before he'd start eating them again. Now he'll eat carrots, he asks for those constantly, broccoli, sometimes apples, whole green peas still in the pod, sometimes green peppers, I've offered red peppers, and even yellow. I keep offering those I know he will eat and those things he used to eat with my Dad, and I have tried others veges but he's just not interested. He does get his favorite food of all time scrambled eggs about once a week and the occasional extra sharp cheddar cheese and plain cheerios on occasion besides his regular seed. Is this enough variety or should I keep offering fruits & veges that he used to eat? Corky's my first parrot, my kids are cats, a dog, and a horse.
That's good he eats some of the veggies. Keep trying different veggies. Try offering different veggies first thing in the morning instead of his favorite and see if he will eat it but he should be fine with what he eats now but variety is the key.
Love your videos and love you please keep on doing these. You might also want to do a video and how not to feed your birds GMO vegetables also because the glycophosphate in them is not good for them. Most corn is GMO even if it says organic
Hi I've been trying to find out what's the best diets for ringneck and how murch should I actually feed and iff they can eat any raw veg any recommendations Was gonna write down a diet plan if I can find the best ideas and stuff to feed
Thank you for the helpful video. My green cheek will only eat his zupreem pellets and seeds. And apple, of course. I made him some beautiful chop but he won't touch it. I just tried mixing in millet and now he's picking through it and trying some of the veggies. What kind of bird is the little green cutie that comes into the video at 8:35?
Thanks for this! My eclectus has recently decided she doesn't want to eat her greens out of her bowl anymore, so I'm experimenting with other presentations. Also just got a rescue grey who hasn't eaten anything healthy since I got her -.-
Congratulations on your new Grey! Keep offering and she will start to eat better. The best time to feed fresh food is first thing in the morning. Remove the other foods and give fresh foods.
I'm going to get a cockatiel in the spring I did have a parakeet but he unfortunately passed but I never got him to eat any fruits or veggies he only ate seeds. For my future cockatiel is it ok if I go to the grocery store and buy a box of spring mix lettuce for them to eat? My sisters bunnies eat that kind of lettuce so it would just be easy to take a pinch from her box
My CAG will only eat fresh veg, I’ve tried freezing it and she won’t go near defrosted food of any type, I’m still trying different techniques but I think I will need to prepare fresh each day. Also atm she is on kaytee exact, I am trying to get her on Harrison’s organic but she doesn’t even see it as food I think she thinks I’m handing her a pebble or something ! But when I sprinkle crushed Harrison’s on her food she won’t touch it ! 😫
What I’ve searched is that parrots (excluding lories and lorikeets) need to have a diet of about 70% fresh food and about 30% seeds and nuts. It depends on the parrot species as well but their main diet should be fresh food. I’m not an expert but I feel like feeding pellets is just like having vitamin supplements. And if I had to feed pellets I’ll do only a small amount since they’ll get most of their nutrition from their chop
Fresh food is important. It's so difficult to provide our birds with the diet they need and what they would normally eat in the wild. There is so much avian nutrition information on the internet, vets and among bird owners that you have to decide which is best for your bird. Pellets is a huge debate. A seed only diet is not healthy of course.
Love of Pets that’s true with the only seed diet. In the wild parrots will eat a higher amount of seeds and nuts since they have to forage for their food and as we know, seeds and nuts have a large amount of calories, therefore they’ll eat less fruits and vegetables in the wild than in captivity because they’re not burning as much calories as they will in the wild.
Exactly, in the wild their are always flying and moving. They eat fresh seeds, buds, flower and bugs and as the season changes they eat different foods and get a variety. In captivity it's always the same seed and the bird is inactive
I take a bag out of the freezer the night before and it's thawed in the morning. I will sometimes put it in the microwave especially in the winter to make them feel warm and cozy
mine doest eat veggies or anything not seeds so i just mix up some grape juice with vitamin supplement in liquid form and he sips it all up. its the only way ive found for him to get his vitamins.
teardropface this is what I eat everyday and I still can’t get my cockatiels to eat healthy 🤣 the female yes but the male loves his pasta and a bite of my chip every once in a while I think their previous owners fed them too much sugar now their hooked 🤣
I know you are a budgie expert too. My new budgie has been with me for 75 days. He has been DAiLY offered millet mixed with budgie pellets and wheat or oat berries or grains and one other seed and offered apples, broccoli, red pepper and carrots, all sliced thin, with millet mix pressed into all of them. But this budgie IGNORES his wheat, oat and pellets and eats ONLY his white millet! Occasionally I train him to perch with millet spray. My budgie will not eat vegetables or wheat berries !!! Please help me !
Keep offering and try different foods. Hang some dark leafy greens near a perch as some budgies prefer it that way. Don't put millet in the cage, only use it for training. Feed fresh food in the morning when they are hungry and take out dry food for a few hours. Try the food in different bowls and different locations and chop in different sizes. Here is a video that can help ua-cam.com/video/XP1KxvKDG_Q/v-deo.html
Hi, new sub here. I’ve watched some of your videos and they are so informative, you have amazing birds. We just have 2 budgies and a cockatiel. I have a question about sunlight and vitamin D. I saw your bird room and wondered how they get Vitamin D or what do you do about giving them sunshine or isn’t it that important? Thankyou 😃
Hi there! I have a question... I can't seem to find what I'm asking anywhere. I have a lovebird, two linnies, and a conure. My lovebird is now fully flighted, which I love for her, it's great to see her getting the exercise she needs, but... She is so insistent about landing on the other birds' cages. I used to put bubble wrap on top of the linnies' and that worked for awhile. I know you let lots of your birds out at once and I would think that most of them are cage territorial, so how do you handle this situation? I was thinking maybe cage top perches would work and they could all use them communally, but I'm unsure if this will be a problem. Maybe I need to create more landing spots? Eventually my linnies will be flighted (I didn't know any better about clipping when I got them) so I need to figure out how to solve this. Again, thanks for all your helpful videos!
Hi, I have plastic runners on top of my cages and plenty of boings and perches for them to land on. Provide perches or boings that hang above the cages and they usually go there but can land on cages. Playgyms are excellent to put on top of the cage so they can land on it instead of the cage. This is what I use and I cut it to size amzn.to/2vUCElT
@@Loveofpets The plastic runner is a great idea, I'm definitely going to give it a try. And get more landing spots. I think it's partially because it's spring and she's hormonal so she's frustrating. Thanks!
My bird is a picky eater atm (green cheek conure) He only loves his seed diet and is obsessed with sunflower seeds. He only likes a few fruits like Pear, Apple. Im trying to change his diet to veggies, pellets but barely anything is working for me. So I hope a few of these tips work eventually. Do you also have tips for learning him to eat pellets?
Hi, take away all dry food at night. In the morning only offer fresh foods. Offer more veggies then fruits. Offer Sprouted seeds, legumes and grains. Offer pellets for lunch or dinner. Take away sunflower seeds and only use them for a treat for training or taming. Offer a small amount of seed in the evening, just a little bit. It may take time so dont give up. Birds are hungriest in the morning so that's why its best to offer the more nutritious foods in the morning. Presentation is key, offer several ways.
I have a ring neck dove and some owl finches...my dove is so appreciative and loves to eat broccoli and carrots (not so much with berries yet). But my finches won’t even go near any type of food yet 😑. Gonna try hanging some food...maybe that will help?
Hello! I am a new sub! I have seen a lot of your videos (literally a marathon 😂😅) but I am worried about my cockatiel because he has never been active... y have tried getting him toys and shredding stuff but he will rather sit on top of them and sleep. Is this bad?
I got some ringnecks and they are not tamed and they live in a huge aviary.. i feed them with fruits .. i wanna know is it ok to feed them only fruits ( because they don't eat anything else😂) and if it is not good how should I get them to eat seeds and veggies
To much fruit is really bad for them. They need pellets and lots of veggies! You can give them small amounts of seed sprinkled over vegetables might help them eat better.
Try the methods in my video and cut back on the fruits as they are high in sugar and need vegetables. Try cutting up the fruit in tiny pieces and put them on top of a leaf of Romain lettuce. Add corn as they usually like corn and carrots as well.
Hi, i have two cockatiels so i cant make huge badges of food everyday so i tried freezing a huge amount in ice cube trays but now that i put a frozen cube into their bowl and mash it up when it warms up, they're even nore hesitant to eat their vegetables :'D any ideas?
I've been trying to get my bird's to get used to pellets for 10 years now is it okay if he just has a little less seeds and more veggies in the bowl? I even talk to the vet I take my birds too they kept them for a few days to try and see if they could get them to eat them even that wouldn't work and they said I just have to be cautious about what's coming in the future and now I'm really scared..
Hi, can you help me my 2 month budgie eats seeds without peeling and I noticed that its hard for him to breathe his making a sound didn't happen before he start on Saturday I don't know what to do 😔
Hi, it's best to take him to an avian vet as soon as possible. It could be many things. He may have a respiratory disease or air sack mites or other issues.
I love hot cheetos, and every time i eat, my cockatiel fight me for some. I know they are not healthy for them but I give them a bite because they get all in my face. I also give them a variety of food, but hot cheetos is their crack 😅
My bird refuses to eat fruit, he only wants to eat millet. Which is very frustrating bc I’ve been trying to get him on a veggie diet and I’ve tried everything. Idk what to do. Any recommendations?
Luckily I was able to start my kakariki really early on lots of veggies so she luvvvs them! She'll make a fuss every morning for me to go out to the kitchen to get her fresh ones. >_o
Oh! and I forgot to mention... she really liked it when I would hold full veggies for her to pick at and tear into... but since I couldn't always be there holding the veggies... I started using wooden clothing pins to pin them to the side of the cage, which she then merrily chews upon. ^_^
My cockatiel will hardly eat veggies. He will eat literally the smallest amount. He will like nibble here and there. I have tried all of these. He’s so picky he doesn’t like any treats , doesn’t like Millet! Ugh what do I dooo! Also how much veggies should cockatiels eat
You got your Cockatiel already? How old is he? If this is the baby you were talking about in my other videos then he is just learning to eat solid foods. Keep offering the foods and he will eat it. It's good that he is trying the foods. Is he weaned? If not weaned then this is why he is not eating much. Use millet as a treat or if not weaned offer millet daily as millet is soft for baby birds and they will need to eat soft foods
My pattot don't like eaten what will I do,is a gift from a friend so the pattor don't know me I just got it yesterday so have been trying to give them fruit vegetables so I don't know what is wrong with them.
He is probably nervous. Sometimes they don't eat right away when given a new home. Make a chop and offer first thing in the morning. Do you offer seeds and or pellets? Are you feeding him the same foods as he was eating before? What kind of bird and how old?
This will not work with every parrot no matter how hard you try. My cockatoo is hard headed.He will only eat food that he can hold. He only eats scrambled eggs, pistachio's ,baked battered broccoli and cauliflower, and Zupreme Nutri-Berries. Occasionally he will eat pea's,edamame,bake beans. He will also eat a leaf or two of spinach, but he is picky . My African Grey Congo is REALLY picky as my for my Timneh Grey,he will ATLEAST try everything I offer him.
Hi I need ur help my famele cocktail won't stop eating her poop I tried everything I give all different kind of food calcium vegetables fruits seed she's very tamed and I start to hand feed her when she was 3 weeks and I'm thinking to sale her because of this .
Hi, some of my birds do this as well. You want to re-home her because she is eating her poop? Clean the cage more often. Does the cage have a grate? Some dogs eat their own poop like my dog but I just clean it up faster and I won't re-home him because of it. I know it's gross but it won't harm her just clean the bottom of the cage more or use the grate so she can't reach it. Talk to your avian vet about it as they may have a solution other than what I mentioned. Also she may be bored so give her plenty of foraging and shredding toys and let her out more. Sometimes they lack certain nutrients or do it because they are looking for food and accidentally eat it.
Do your birds eat their veggies?
Check out more videos on nutrition. Avian Nutrition: ua-cam.com/play/PL6uTBIckTWD5uwapbvNHmUeyFsvwRn3Io.html
Problem I have is my budgies are very finicky; they only want to eat the foods that are "fun to them"; millet sticks (loaded with honey) and Avi-cakes (lots of sugar). They will not eat pellets! Your birds are used to you; it seems they know what to expect from you. You give them very nutritious food and they look so good. But I am not giving up; every time I see you video on feeding, it gives me hope that I can get them on a better diet.
My birds love the organic girl spring mix and absolutely love broccoli!! I put some apples carrots in too, they love it!!!
Take the honey sticks away and Avi cakes. Take away seeds at night and offer pellets and fresh foods in the morning and they will get hungry and eat it.
Trying to get my Indian ringneck to eat veggies is hard.
Keep trying every day and hopefully he will eat them
My cockatiel eats nothing but seeds, this was very helpful, thanks.
Limit the seeds and offer more pellets. Offer fresh food every day.
I also give this stick that has seeds on it (not sure what it’s called) I give it to him every 2 weeks (assuming he doesn’t finish it) I give him lots of pellets and seeds, However his diet is pretty bad, so I’m trying to look for videos to see what he can eat.
Those seed sticks are unhealthy as they are held together with honey and sugar.
Love of Pets oh okay, thanks for telling me
Same but I made them some chop today lol they still won’t eat it😂
I don’t even own a parrot, yet I’m watching this.
Great food for we humans too minus the millet spray. LOL
@@teardropface LOL
It's a sign that you are a legend 🙂🙂🙂
"They see what you're eating and want it too"
I literally have to fight my bird so I can eat my noodles and crisps in peace an absolute nightmare
😂😂😂
This was the best weaning your birds onto fresh veggies video I've ever seen!! Love you added a little millet and oats to the veg to entice those picky beaks! This video seriously needs to go viral man! The bird world needs it! I will share on my community page tomorrow. Bird lovers United!💚🙏 #FlockPower
Thank you, I hope to of helped bird owners with some ideas on how to get their birds to eat fresh foods 😊
@@LoveofpetsTotally!
@@Loveofpets i think this will be super helpful for people 💖💖 i have a blog, do you mind if i share vids like this on there? It's just shared as an embedded vid💖
Hi, sure you can share it, thank you.
@@Loveofpets Awesome :) Thank You :)
I have 4 very spoilt (and much-loved) zebra finches who eat a varied diet rich in fruits, veggies and seeds, but tend to gravitate towards millet, cucumber, lettuce, brown rice and egg yolk. Was lovely seeing your birds and seeing how you cater so well for their nutritional needs 🐦❤.
Hey! Can macaw’s safely eat egg yolks? Without getting any hormonal issues
This is exactly what I learned this summer...so happy!!
I now have an adorable male parakeet! He flew into my screened in pool this past summer! I then read everything I could about how to care for him!
I had NO idea about birds!
At 1st I was giving veg & some fruit cut up...but he was not interested!
This chopped mix worked perfectly!
He's so happy!!
Bravo on your birdies & videos!!
WE all appreciate your tips!!
I'll add that I was thrilled to train myself & my little Woodstock...he will fly to me now & learning to get back to cage!
I love that he can use my whole screened in pool area for flying...especially as most of the year is beautiful here! I also have a room for him to sleep in his cage at night... I make sure he gets 12 hours sleep nightly!
Anyhoo... Thanks again!
I'm having trouble even getting my cockatiel to eat crumbles, its 80% of the food content in the bowl. the rest is small parrot seed mix. My cockatiels favorite are the grey sunflower seeds. Very interesting video, i'll need to pick up those attachable feeders and maybe that fruit kebab stick and clips.
If your seed mix has sunflower seeds, take them out. They should only get them as treats.
If your bird won't eat the pellets yet you need to increase the seed ratio until they start to pick up bits of pellets, then gradually increase the pellets.
That little grey parakeet is so beautiful!
The idea of chopping it very very fine is super helpful
Great video. I hope more bird owners see it. As I find myself often saying to new bird owners to give fresh veggies and not just seeds. My budgies get something everyday. Yesterday was a bit of mango. Today they get salad and tomorrow a mixture of cauliflower and broccoli! I can't wait for summer for some fresh berries. And I hear some herbs such as sorrel, basil and chives are good too. I look forward to trying something new.
All my birds are NOW eating veggies ! All of them . My rescue Pete cocktiel was the worst til he seen all others eating some . Ty for the TIPS
Thank you this is very helpful 😊❤️ love from Philippines certified Animal lover
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My Ringneck is a great eater also! I finally found that my parrotlet will eat veggies if I don't finely chop. So it's good to try different ways to offer it. Great video💜
That's great you tried different sizes of fresh foods to see what he likes best.
Glad you showed this video. I'm always trying to get my budgies to eat fruits and vegetables, but they show little desire. I give them mixed veggies (peas, carrots, corn, green beans) but it seems most of it gets tossed around, winds up on the bottom of the cage. Placed in a blender but turned it into mush and soon it is spoiled. I'll try shredder or food processor, maybe just slice them down smaller. Only one of the 4 budgies will eat pellets; they love seeds, especially millet sticks; now I realize it's the honey on the millet sticks, so I'll avoid giving them that.
I always enjoy seeing your birds: Rio, Electra, Monty, Jingles, Willow, bourkes, Sprinkles, Sky, Nugget, Sterling, Splash, etc,... and of course - Jack Sparrow.
Try chopping it smaller and sprinkle millet on top. Avoid those seed sticks as they are made with honey. Cook some quinoa or brown rice, my birds love it and then they usually start eating the other foods. Add oats to the mush to soak up the moisture.
Good suggestions, I will try.
This is really helpful thanks for sharing this I have been having difficulty getting my ringneck to eat vegetables
My lovebirds are only a few months old and they don't want to eat veggies... but you've gave me some ideas, hopefully i'll get them to eat the veggies.
In winter I give my birds some cooked lentils and brown cooked rice in there chop mix. Broccoli is one of their favorites as well. Thank you for sharing this very informative video. 🐦
Broccoli is a favorite with my birds too. The budgies and canaries especially love it.
Thanks for your video!
My birds love fruits but I don't have any success with vegetables. I will try to chop them, hope it helps.
What they love is their pot of "cat-grass" (mostly from oats). They not only love to eat it, they also jump in and wallow in it, having fun as if it were a swimming pool 😅
My parrot eats fruit .And I love you and your videos so much and they are so heplful thank you so much for the helpful videos.I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡
I love this video so much! Your birds are very adorable!
A thank you so much! I didn’t know that a see diet can do damage to my bird
What i learned from this video:
Adding oats to the mix will keep the moisture under control
Should try to shred carrots,
Thank you!
Aww your soo patient with your birds 😁❤
Great presentation as always! Very informative.
this an old vid but I HIGHLY recommend having your picky bird out with you while you chop up and interact with a vegetable or fruit. My little 3(?) year old lovebird is actually scared of fresh food.. So every day I reward her for biting/throwing the scary veggie around the table and she is slooooowly starting to eat it too lol
I just got a cockatiel and I want to start her on a healthy vegetable diet. This was very helpful, thank you!
Congratulations on your new Cockatiel 😃
this is really helpful I got a cockatiel a couple of months ago but he won’t eat nothing but seeds. I’m going to try this out
Very informative video 💖
the choppers method works best for most stubborn birds as well & that's exactly how I started for my budgies when they're home from breeder ☺
Did they eat the fresh foods?
@@Loveofpets Of course they did. Out of 4 birds, 1 was phobic to new stuffs & food etc but now he is the champion lol.
That's good, lol.
I made a beautiful chop and she wants nothing to do with it. Here’s my situation. I rescued her on Dec 11, 2023 from Kijiji. She’s a green cheek conure (1 1/2 years old) She was in this very tiny cage with no toys, she never had anything. This man who could hardly speak English had that cage right next to the front door so high up that she was almost on the ceiling, so not even at eye level. I don’t know for sure if she was neglected because she’s very friendly and sweet with me. They say this species likes to bite but mine doesn’t. He was feeding her seeds and sugary fruit loop cereal which made me buy her just to get her out of there. I need her to eat veggies, I at least got her to eat apples. She’s a sweetheart. Please help me. I threw his food in the trash and got her on pellets, thank God she loves them.
Fruit loops, ugg. Feed fresh foods in the morning as thats when they are the hungriest. Remove any dry food at night. Keep offering every day.
Love all the ideas and tips 💖🦜 great educational video💖💖
May I add a few tips? BirdTricks recommends mashing up a sweet potato or hardboiled eggs and mixing it in because it'll bind all the veggies together. Or adding in seed, then adding less and less. They also have an excellent chop recipe.
I have there book and it's awesome 😊 They always have nice tips.
I have 2 budgies and my parakeets does not eat fruits or veggies, they only eat millets and basil leaves and almonds ,I really want them to eat veggies and I will surely try this
I'm going to try to
My lovebirds recently layed eggs and today I shared some corn with carrots one of their favourite 😁 freshness is major
I have a bare eyed cockatoo that I rescued about 3 weeks ago. She has some slightly elevated liver enzymes due to her being on a strictly seed diet. I feel it’s urgent to get her transitioned over to to a healthy diet but she is so stubborn! She’s 25-35 years old and had never had a vegetable or fruit until a few weeks ago. She loves scrambled egg and oatmeal but she refuses almost all veggies and every single fruit. She won’t touch pellets but I do grind some up and mix it with her chop and anything else I offer her like her birdie bread. I’m just concerned about her health and I hate that I have to keep giving her seed since that’s what she’s use to.
Hi, congratulations on your new Cockatoo. Keep offering her veggies and some fruit. Take her food away at night and only offer her chop in the morning. She will eat it when hungry. Don't strange her though. Increase time each morning. Limit seeds and she should eat the fresh foods.
My little lovebird was a rescue from a neglect situation. She will not touch anything that isn't familiar to her. She prefers seeds, and love millet. I have offered other foods, in all the forms, but she's not bonded to me, and will bite when I offer other foods. At this point I wonder if she wouldn't be better off being put down. She's so dang skinny. She's scared of everything, and tends to freak out when I offer enrichment to her. Its been months and she's just as bad as she was when I got her.
I love your videos! Thank you so much!
At present my ringnecks and fishersare on sunflower..raw peanuts and apples what other fruits and veggies can i giv them they are in an avery 5mts by4.5 amd 2.1 high
Love her channel, its all educational stuff without her trying to sale something to the people watching!
Thanks a lot....loved watching the vedio. Very informative. Looking forward for more such vedios.
My African Grey parrot Corky used to eat veges, apples & oranges when my Dad was still alive (Corky we Dads bird he raised from a hatchling, he was about 5 when Dad passed (2012). Unfortunately the only have he'd eat after Dad passed were carrots but that took almost 3 years before he'd start eating them again. Now he'll eat carrots, he asks for those constantly, broccoli, sometimes apples, whole green peas still in the pod, sometimes green peppers, I've offered red peppers, and even yellow. I keep offering those I know he will eat and those things he used to eat with my Dad, and I have tried others veges but he's just not interested. He does get his favorite food of all time scrambled eggs about once a week and the occasional extra sharp cheddar cheese and plain cheerios on occasion besides his regular seed. Is this enough variety or should I keep offering fruits & veges that he used to eat? Corky's my first parrot, my kids are cats, a dog, and a horse.
That's good he eats some of the veggies. Keep trying different veggies. Try offering different veggies first thing in the morning instead of his favorite and see if he will eat it but he should be fine with what he eats now but variety is the key.
This really help with my bird thank you 🐦
Ooh yesss! A bird video
Love your videos and love you please keep on doing these. You might also want to do a video and how not to feed your birds GMO vegetables also because the glycophosphate in them is not good for them. Most corn is GMO even if it says organic
Hi I've been trying to find out what's the best diets for ringneck and how murch should I actually feed and iff they can eat any raw veg any recommendations
Was gonna write down a diet plan if I can find the best ideas and stuff to feed
Thank you for the helpful video. My green cheek will only eat his zupreem pellets and seeds. And apple, of course. I made him some beautiful chop but he won't touch it. I just tried mixing in millet and now he's picking through it and trying some of the veggies. What kind of bird is the little green cutie that comes into the video at 8:35?
Hi, she is a Lineolated Parakeet.
Thanks for this! My eclectus has recently decided she doesn't want to eat her greens out of her bowl anymore, so I'm experimenting with other presentations. Also just got a rescue grey who hasn't eaten anything healthy since I got her -.-
Congratulations on your new Grey! Keep offering and she will start to eat better. The best time to feed fresh food is first thing in the morning. Remove the other foods and give fresh foods.
I'm going to get a cockatiel in the spring I did have a parakeet but he unfortunately passed but I never got him to eat any fruits or veggies he only ate seeds. For my future cockatiel is it ok if I go to the grocery store and buy a box of spring mix lettuce for them to eat? My sisters bunnies eat that kind of lettuce so it would just be easy to take a pinch from her box
My birds love spring mix so yes offer it to them. I feed it to my bunnies and to my birds. I put spring mix in a bowl and put their chop on top.
@@Loveofpets ok thank you a lot
I've been trying to get my lovebird to eat fresh vegetables for months. She is sooooo picky. I haven't tried using my Ninja yet, though.
My CAG will only eat fresh veg, I’ve tried freezing it and she won’t go near defrosted food of any type, I’m still trying different techniques but I think I will need to prepare fresh each day. Also atm she is on kaytee exact, I am trying to get her on Harrison’s organic but she doesn’t even see it as food I think she thinks I’m handing her a pebble or something ! But when I sprinkle crushed Harrison’s on her food she won’t touch it ! 😫
Keep trying or try another brand of pellets such as Tops. Some birds are so picky.
What I’ve searched is that parrots (excluding lories and lorikeets) need to have a diet of about 70% fresh food and about 30% seeds and nuts. It depends on the parrot species as well but their main diet should be fresh food. I’m not an expert but I feel like feeding pellets is just like having vitamin supplements. And if I had to feed pellets I’ll do only a small amount since they’ll get most of their nutrition from their chop
Fresh food is important. It's so difficult to provide our birds with the diet they need and what they would normally eat in the wild. There is so much avian nutrition information on the internet, vets and among bird owners that you have to decide which is best for your bird. Pellets is a huge debate. A seed only diet is not healthy of course.
Love of Pets that’s true with the only seed diet. In the wild parrots will eat a higher amount of seeds and nuts since they have to forage for their food and as we know, seeds and nuts have a large amount of calories, therefore they’ll eat less fruits and vegetables in the wild than in captivity because they’re not burning as much calories as they will in the wild.
Exactly, in the wild their are always flying and moving. They eat fresh seeds, buds, flower and bugs and as the season changes they eat different foods and get a variety. In captivity it's always the same seed and the bird is inactive
Very informative video thanks!
But what do you do when you take the vegetables out of the freezer? Do you put it in the microwave?
I take a bag out of the freezer the night before and it's thawed in the morning. I will sometimes put it in the microwave especially in the winter to make them feel warm and cozy
Love of Pets ok thank you so much 😊
Awww good video!
Thank you, this helped, looked so yummy 😋
v nice. and well explained.
mine doest eat veggies or anything not seeds so i just mix up some grape juice with vitamin supplement in liquid form and he sips it all up. its the only way ive found for him to get his vitamins.
Hi i just got a rainbow lorry and you seem to know what your saying can i feed her the chop i minuse the seeds and grains
Hi, yes you can. I fed my lorikeet fresh veggies (chop) fruits, sprouts, flowers and nectar
I got some budgies young budgies who are 4 and 5 month's old.and I'm going to try that
Where can you get those clips?
Yummy! This is how we humans should be eating too minus the spray millet! LOL Do you cook your zucchini or just raw?
Yes I should be eating more chop, lol. I give raw zucchini.
teardropface this is what I eat everyday and I still can’t get my cockatiels to eat healthy 🤣 the female yes but the male loves his pasta and a bite of my chip every once in a while
I think their previous owners fed them too much sugar now their hooked 🤣
Excellent video! Thank you👍
Are soft green peas safe for lovebirds?
Great video helped so much.. Thank you!!
My and my 6 year old love you!!!
Can you help me can you tell me what fruits and vegetables eat cockatiel safe?
I know you are a budgie expert too. My new budgie has been with me for 75 days. He has been DAiLY offered millet mixed with budgie pellets and wheat or oat berries or grains and one other seed and offered apples, broccoli, red pepper and carrots, all sliced thin, with millet mix pressed into all of them. But this budgie IGNORES his wheat, oat and pellets and eats ONLY his white millet! Occasionally I train him to perch with millet spray. My budgie will not eat vegetables or wheat berries !!! Please help me !
Keep offering and try different foods. Hang some dark leafy greens near a perch as some budgies prefer it that way. Don't put millet in the cage, only use it for training. Feed fresh food in the morning when they are hungry and take out dry food for a few hours. Try the food in different bowls and different locations and chop in different sizes. Here is a video that can help ua-cam.com/video/XP1KxvKDG_Q/v-deo.html
Hi, new sub here. I’ve watched some of your videos and they are so informative, you have amazing birds. We just have 2 budgies and a cockatiel. I have a question about sunlight and vitamin D. I saw your bird room and wondered how they get Vitamin D or what do you do about giving them sunshine or isn’t it that important? Thankyou 😃
I put their cages outside in the warmer weather and when cold outside I have this lamp amzn.to/2YbVMaT
Hi there! I have a question... I can't seem to find what I'm asking anywhere. I have a lovebird, two linnies, and a conure. My lovebird is now fully flighted, which I love for her, it's great to see her getting the exercise she needs, but... She is so insistent about landing on the other birds' cages. I used to put bubble wrap on top of the linnies' and that worked for awhile. I know you let lots of your birds out at once and I would think that most of them are cage territorial, so how do you handle this situation? I was thinking maybe cage top perches would work and they could all use them communally, but I'm unsure if this will be a problem. Maybe I need to create more landing spots? Eventually my linnies will be flighted (I didn't know any better about clipping when I got them) so I need to figure out how to solve this. Again, thanks for all your helpful videos!
Hi, I have plastic runners on top of my cages and plenty of boings and perches for them to land on. Provide perches or boings that hang above the cages and they usually go there but can land on cages. Playgyms are excellent to put on top of the cage so they can land on it instead of the cage. This is what I use and I cut it to size amzn.to/2vUCElT
@@Loveofpets The plastic runner is a great idea, I'm definitely going to give it a try. And get more landing spots. I think it's partially because it's spring and she's hormonal so she's frustrating. Thanks!
My bird is a picky eater atm (green cheek conure) He only loves his seed diet and is obsessed with sunflower seeds. He only likes a few fruits like Pear, Apple. Im trying to change his diet to veggies, pellets but barely anything is working for me. So I hope a few of these tips work eventually.
Do you also have tips for learning him to eat pellets?
Hi, take away all dry food at night. In the morning only offer fresh foods. Offer more veggies then fruits. Offer Sprouted seeds, legumes and grains. Offer pellets for lunch or dinner. Take away sunflower seeds and only use them for a treat for training or taming. Offer a small amount of seed in the evening, just a little bit. It may take time so dont give up. Birds are hungriest in the morning so that's why its best to offer the more nutritious foods in the morning. Presentation is key, offer several ways.
@@Loveofpets Thank you so much!
I have a ring neck dove and some owl finches...my dove is so appreciative and loves to eat broccoli and carrots (not so much with berries yet). But my finches won’t even go near any type of food yet 😑. Gonna try hanging some food...maybe that will help?
Yes, try everything. Chop it small, shred it, hang it.
Great advice
Thank you, Your birds get along ?
Ah! I tried so hard to get him to eat fruit and veggie, but he is only interested in whatever is in our bowl😂
Where did you get the bathing tabe form birds
Hi, do you mean the bathing fountain?
Where did you get Rio's bowls from?
Hi, I got it at Parrotdise perch a while ago, not sure if she still sells them. You can get them on Amazon, here is a link amzn.to/2vD5pn4
Hello! I am a new sub! I have seen a lot of your videos (literally a marathon 😂😅) but I am worried about my cockatiel because he has never been active... y have tried getting him toys and shredding stuff but he will rather sit on top of them and sleep. Is this bad?
I got some ringnecks and they are not tamed and they live in a huge aviary.. i feed them with fruits .. i wanna know is it ok to feed them only fruits ( because they don't eat anything else😂) and if it is not good how should I get them to eat seeds and veggies
To much fruit is really bad for them. They need pellets and lots of veggies! You can give them small amounts of seed sprinkled over vegetables might help them eat better.
Try the methods in my video and cut back on the fruits as they are high in sugar and need vegetables. Try cutting up the fruit in tiny pieces and put them on top of a leaf of Romain lettuce. Add corn as they usually like corn and carrots as well.
Hi, i have two cockatiels so i cant make huge badges of food everyday so i tried freezing a huge amount in ice cube trays but now that i put a frozen cube into their bowl and mash it up when it warms up, they're even nore hesitant to eat their vegetables :'D any ideas?
Take out the frozen cube the evening before and let it thaw in the fridge overnight. It may be too cold.
@@Loveofpets thank you, thats a good idea :)
I've been trying to get my bird's to get used to pellets for 10 years now is it okay if he just has a little less seeds and more veggies in the bowl? I even talk to the vet I take my birds too they kept them for a few days to try and see if they could get them to eat them even that wouldn't work and they said I just have to be cautious about what's coming in the future and now I'm really scared..
What kind of birds do you have?
@@Loveofpets cockatiels and conures
My conure only eate sunflower seeds i tried giving him different seeds mix and veggies but he is not eating em 😔
Love your channel
Where can u buy those food clips..?
Hi, here is a link from my Amazon Store amzn.to/3r79XNF
You may be able to find them in your local pet store
Help!!! My cockatiel she only likes iceberg lettuce :( I tried different veggies and fruites but only iceberg is what she eats with no problem
Hi, can you help me my 2 month budgie eats seeds without peeling and I noticed that its hard for him to breathe his making a sound didn't happen before he start on Saturday I don't know what to do 😔
Hi, it's best to take him to an avian vet as soon as possible. It could be many things. He may have a respiratory disease or air sack mites or other issues.
This is helpfull cuz all my budgie will eat is seeds and sometimes corn chips without salt
Start offering fresh foods everyday
thank u for the tip🤗
I love hot cheetos, and every time i eat, my cockatiel fight me for some. I know they are not healthy for them but I give them a bite because they get all in my face. I also give them a variety of food, but hot cheetos is their crack 😅
They poop end up watery. Why?
My bird refuses to eat fruit, he only wants to eat millet. Which is very frustrating bc I’ve been trying to get him on a veggie diet and I’ve tried everything. Idk what to do. Any recommendations?
Great Ideas
Luckily I was able to start my kakariki really early on lots of veggies so she luvvvs them! She'll make a fuss every morning for me to go out to the kitchen to get her fresh ones. >_o
Oh! and I forgot to mention... she really liked it when I would hold full veggies for her to pick at and tear into... but since I couldn't always be there holding the veggies... I started using wooden clothing pins to pin them to the side of the cage, which she then merrily chews upon. ^_^
She sounds like a sweety. My Kakariki used to rip apart food also. He would step on it and rip or hold it in his foot.
My cockatiel will hardly eat veggies. He will eat literally the smallest amount. He will like nibble here and there. I have tried all of these. He’s so picky he doesn’t like any treats , doesn’t like Millet! Ugh what do I dooo! Also how much veggies should cockatiels eat
You got your Cockatiel already? How old is he? If this is the baby you were talking about in my other videos then he is just learning to eat solid foods. Keep offering the foods and he will eat it. It's good that he is trying the foods. Is he weaned? If not weaned then this is why he is not eating much. Use millet as a treat or if not weaned offer millet daily as millet is soft for baby birds and they will need to eat soft foods
No, this is the cockatiel that’s 7. U haven’t got the baby yet.
Sorry I just have 1 more question! Do you know of any good cockatiels in Toronto area?
Thank u so much mam ♥️🤗
My pattot don't like eaten what will I do,is a gift from a friend so the pattor don't know me I just got it yesterday so have been trying to give them fruit vegetables so I don't know what is wrong with them.
He is probably nervous. Sometimes they don't eat right away when given a new home.
Make a chop and offer first thing in the morning. Do you offer seeds and or pellets? Are you feeding him the same foods as he was eating before?
What kind of bird and how old?
This will not work with every parrot no matter how hard you try. My cockatoo is hard headed.He will only eat food that he can hold. He only eats scrambled eggs, pistachio's ,baked battered broccoli and cauliflower, and
Zupreme Nutri-Berries. Occasionally he will eat pea's,edamame,bake beans.
He will also eat a leaf or two of spinach, but he is picky . My African Grey Congo is REALLY picky as my for my Timneh Grey,he will ATLEAST try everything I offer him.
Ma'am i have raw parrot his age is 3month i want to make him selffeed what should i do???
Thank you! I have tried so much but nothing worked, I really want to try this. But there is a problem, I don’t have a blender.
Hi, you don't need a blender. Use a sharp knife and chop away.
Can we give cockatiel romain leaf everyday
Yes, it's good for them
Hi I need ur help my famele cocktail won't stop eating her poop I tried everything I give all different kind of food calcium vegetables fruits seed she's very tamed and I start to hand feed her when she was 3 weeks and I'm thinking to sale her because of this .
Hi, some of my birds do this as well. You want to re-home her because she is eating her poop?
Clean the cage more often. Does the cage have a grate? Some dogs eat their own poop like my dog but I just clean it up faster and I won't re-home him because of it. I know it's gross but it won't harm her just clean the bottom of the cage more or use the grate so she can't reach it.
Talk to your avian vet about it as they may have a solution other than what I mentioned. Also she may be bored so give her plenty of foraging and shredding toys and let her out more. Sometimes they lack certain nutrients or do it because they are looking for food and accidentally eat it.
thus was helpful for ny cockatiel