Poll Time:. Mayonnaise or Miracle Whip

[Everose]

Eat more soup with chopsticks. That'll slow you down. No, you can't drink from the bowl.

Is an eyedropper acceptable?

 

[BantyChooks]

Yeah, same! Yesterday, Sprite spent nearly 15 minutes just tearing and ripping at it. At this point, it's only holding by one little piece. I really need to get a replacement. What brand did you get?

I'm looking at one from Super Bird Creations. My original was just a random one from the pet store, not sure what brand.

 

[HappyClucker7]

I'm looking at one from Super Bird Creations. My original was just a random one from the pet store, not sure what brand.

Okay, I'll take a look at that one. Thanks!

 

[The Moonshiner]

I Think he needs to make an updated video for this song.
Can you imagine the size of butts he would have in an updated video?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Me too, I started using chopsticks to slow myself down. Unfortunately I'm getting rlly good at using chopsticks.

OMG

 

[ShrekDawg]

Not all birds like chop. Mine hate it. They LOVE fresh vegetables chopped into slightly larger sliced though. Try a bunch of different things to see what they like best. You can also give them broccoli as a first vegetable. The texture is similar to seeds, so they tend to like it better.
For the pellets, they are important for their diet, but they need seeds too. A budgie's diet should be 25% seeds, 25% pellets, and 50% vegetables.
Different birds like different brands of pellets. Mine really like Harrison's.
My birds eat all of their food, so I can offer everything free choice. Not all birds are like that though. Some people need to control how much of each food the birds are getting.

Adorable!!

I definitely recommend removing the dowel perches and buying some nice natural branches, maybe moving the rope perches lower to encourage them to spend less time on them. I also highly recommend the type of swing I showed in my images, my birds LOVE that; they spend almost all day on it, and it functions as a chew toy to keep their minds busy too. With a greater variety of toys placed in more convenient locations, they should start engaging with them!

It takes many months and quite a lot of persistence to switch budgies over most of the time. What I do is grind the pellets, mix them with seeds, and moisten them so they clump together. This should be removed after about 4 hours, though, same with chop. During the rest of the day, I give them Lafeber Nutriberries which are better than most seeds in that they're already hulled and so the supplementation on them isn't lost via the birds hulling the seeds.

I've been thinking of trying Harrison's or Roudybush to see if my birds accept it better than Lafeber.

Thank you!


I have that same swing, and my budgies love it too! They play on it all the time, and often sleep on it at night. I'm going to have to buy a new mat though soon, because they have chewed it to shreds.

It's recommended to start off with the high potency formula, right?

I'm not sure. I just got the Adult Lifetime pellets.

Thanks for all the help you guys!! I’m gonna try all these things.

These were the pellets I was feeding which are probably not the greatest but all the reviews were really good and said they loved them and dove in when they didn’t eat other brands, etc. so I thought if anything could get them to, this could hahah but nope.

https://www.chewy.com/zupreem-natur...MItcn7irqk8gIVCpXICh0wiAV0EAQYASABEgJdc_D_BwE

 

[HappyClucker7]

Thanks for all the help you guys!! I’m gonna try all these things.

These were the pellets I was feeding which are probably not the greatest but all the reviews were really good and said they loved them and dove in when they didn’t eat other brands, etc. so I thought if anything could get them to, this could hahah but nope.

https://www.chewy.com/zupreem-natur...MItcn7irqk8gIVCpXICh0wiAV0EAQYASABEgJdc_D_BwE

Yeah, those aren't the best. Definitely not the worst, but not the best either.

 

[RUNuts]

Is an eyedropper acceptable?

chopsticks only if you really want to achieve goal. One drop at a time. Think of all the exercise you will get.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah, those aren't the best. Definitely not the worst, but not the best either.

Yeah, that’s what I figured but people said their birds liked them and I knew mine liked their seeds so I’m like what the heck haha I think I ended up throwing them out though cause they went stale I’m pretty sure being open for so long. Maybe I’ll go in the pet store and get some different kinds of foods for them to try or some new toys.

 

[Everose]

chopsticks only if you really want to achieve goal. One drop at a time. Think of all the exercise you will get.

My fingers will have little abs