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Post by lisamarie on Jan 8, 2014 21:17:55 GMT
I opened my fridge and saw some strawberries so I stole one and threw some gooey chunks in Lucy's seed bowl, then put some in Bonnie and Clyde's favorite dish... Sprinkled seeds in both. Now we wait -_-
I put the strawberries also on a paper plate and put it on top of Lucy's cage also w some carrot pieces and the leaves from the strawberries... Lucy is going to town on the seeds, and her beak is all red from the juice (she looks like a lion after a nice meal - lol) but I don't know if she's eating the actual chunks. If not, at least I know she's tasting it from the juice on the seeds!
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Post by Pammy on Jan 8, 2014 22:05:24 GMT
So cute! Kringle and Clausy really enjoyed strawberries last summer. I hope they will like them again.
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Post by roxhum on Jan 9, 2014 14:06:40 GMT
I love when there little faces get colorful from eating. I still can't get Sweetie to eat fresh food. I see her take one taste and walk away. Pearl isn't eating greens either but she is young enough that I have high hopes.
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Post by Pammy on Jan 9, 2014 16:40:17 GMT
None of mine have been touching their veggies lately, either. I'm about desperate enough to go back to veggie mornings with no other option, and then bring on the pellets & seeds in the afternoons. That strategy was working for me, but then I got the two new girls and didn't want them to starve themselves so I put full time pellets & seeds back in the cage. Of course this caused Kringle & Clausy to turn their beaks up at their veggies and stuff themselves with junk food, and the girls haven't even approached the vegetables. Neither has Mistletoe. I throw untouched, dried up veggies away everyday.  |
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Post by lisamarie on Jan 9, 2014 17:43:56 GMT
 I guess she liked them! |
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Post by Sarah on Jan 9, 2014 17:48:33 GMT
Oh my! How cute! XD
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Post by Sarah on Jan 9, 2014 17:49:29 GMT
Something you could do instead Pammy, You could offer pellets all the time, but seed only comes with the fruit in the morning. That way, they will never go hungry but in order to have their favorite they have to eat the healthy stuff too!
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Post by rdkntriker on Jan 9, 2014 17:51:44 GMT
Something you could do instead Pammy, You could offer pellets all the time, but seed only comes with the fruit in the morning. That way, they will never go hungry but in order to have their favorite they have to eat the healthy stuff too! That is a great idea. I am going to give it a try also. |
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Post by Pammy on Jan 9, 2014 20:04:55 GMT
Thanks, Sarah. I'm going to do that! What about for Baby Mistletoe? Should I give him unhealthy millet, seeds, sunflower seeds and Cheerios as his breeder told me to do, just until he is securely all settled in and in no danger of loosing weight, or should I go straight to the fruit/veggies with seeds in the morning and pellets all the time, just like the budgies? Lisa, looks like Bonnie is sure enjoying her strawberries.  How's the Ivermectin working? |
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Post by rdkntriker on Jan 9, 2014 20:59:00 GMT
Something you could do instead Pammy, You could offer pellets all the time, but seed only comes with the fruit in the morning. That way, they will never go hungry but in order to have their favorite they have to eat the healthy stuff too! This makes me remember the song, A Spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins |
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Post by lisamarie on Jan 9, 2014 21:18:06 GMT
I don't know if you can tell in the pictures, but the ivermectin cleared her up nice. Her beak and cere are still chalky though... |
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Post by Pammy on Jan 9, 2014 21:37:52 GMT
That's great! I couldn't tell with the strawberry on her sweet face. I'm soooo glad she is better! And no signs of trouble on Clyde or Lucy?
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Post by lisamarie on Jan 9, 2014 22:14:17 GMT
The only sign Clyde has was the white at the bottom if his cere. Which is still there. And as for Lucy, idk what scalyface looks like on a tiel but she did get treated anyway! to be safe
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Post by rdkntriker on Jan 10, 2014 19:44:46 GMT
Feeding Lucky like Sarah suggested. When chopping uf veggies and fruit, my dog, Lucy loves to eat what I do not give Lucky. She really loves carrots.
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Post by Pammy on Jan 10, 2014 20:09:22 GMT
How funny for a dog to like veggies. We had a dog once when I was a kid who liked tomatoes. It's was so unusual. And then there was my own little Lucky, a fox terrier mix who was my sweet little friend throughout my childhood. We took him camping, and he would pluck wild raspberries from the bushes with his teeth, lips all pulled back. It was the cutest thing. He really loved them.
But all this reminds me that I meant to buy strawberries for my birds yesterday during my weekly grocery trip, and I forgot! Bummer. Right now I have seed-sprinkled carrots in the budgie cage and nobody is even glancing toward it. However, some great news -- last night when I came home from the grocery store, Mistletoe's small plate with thawed pieces of frozen mixed vegetables (carrots, peas, corn & green beans) was licked clean! Woohoo! He ate them!!
Well, gentle little Clausy was closed into Mistletoe's cage with him while I was gone, but the chances of him having eaten those veggies is about as likely as if he were to sit down at the piano and roll off Beethoven's 5th.
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How's the Ivermectin working?