jenn-
Chirping
Try soft food...Yin Yang loves chopped hard boiled eggs, chopped black cherries, soft bread soaked in buttermilk. Any soft food that she likes and will eat....my husband holds her in his lap most mealtimes and talks to her and encourages her to eat.. She likes the attention and will sit and sing, on good days.
I've tried wet cat food, applesauce, her normal food made as a mash (how she is used to eating it due to a cross beak in the flock), and several of those mixed up none of them are tempting enough to get her to put her head down and peck. I am concerned to try anything that would require grit because it won't get digested correctly and I have no way of getting grit down her throat. Maybe I will try soaking bread in some milk. Would heavy cream work as I don't have buttermilk on hand? I could make it into buttermilk, but I just didn't know whether I could leave it be.