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Conference 7.286::pet_birds

Title:	Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN!
Notice:	INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.*
Moderator:	VIDEO::PULSIFER

Created:	Mon Oct 10 1988
Last Modified:	Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	942
Total number of notes:	6016

669.0. "FEEDING QUESTION" by JUPITR::BENNETT () Fri Mar 06 1992 03:53

    Has anyone out there had any luck getting their bird(s) to switch from
    a seed diet to a pellet diet? I've been feeding my female cockatiel a
    good seed mixture for several years. The problem is that she eats only
    the white millet seeds in this mixture. She occasionally nibbles on the
    fresh greens and veggies that I give her, but is almost exclusively a
    millet eater. In an attempt to give her a more nutritious diet I've
    recently been trying to convert her to a pellet food by mixing the
    pellets into her seeds in increasingly greater amounts. My concern is
    that she seems to avoid the pellets and her stool begins to get loose
    from the decrease in seed consumption. I tried to convert her gradually
    to the new diet, but the change in her stool concerned me enough to
    stop. I'm wondering if I need to be more persistent and give her more
    time to adjust to the change.
    
    Any ideas or thoughts? 
    
    Rich

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
669.1		HYEND::C_DENOPOULOS	FantasiesFullfilledWhile-U-Wait	`Fri Mar 06 1992 12:28`	6
	Rich, Instead of starting another topic in here, check out notes 88,503,536, and 626. They all deal with pellets. Chris D.
669.2	BLUEJAY FOOD?	SALEM::NEAULT		`Mon Jun 01 1992 13:38`	6
	DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT BLUEJAYS EAT. I HAVE A NEST RIGHT NEXT TO MY HOUSE AND I THOUGHT I'D FEED THEM EVERY NOW AND THEN. THANKS AHEAD OF TIME ROGER
669.3	The easy answer is Most Anything	AVIAN::KIRSCHBAUM	Every Tank Should Have It's Moray	`Mon Jun 01 1992 14:55`	13
	I have a large "feeding platform", I put sunflower in it for the larger birds. I also have a smaller feeder on a pipe which has compartments for different types of seed.... Anyway, I get Cardinals, Blue Jays, Doves etc. to my platform and sunflower. Apparently even thou sunflower has too much "fat" for pet birds, those in the wild are not harmed by it according to my Vet... -dick
669.4	CLT::Wild_Birds	ROYALT::PULSIFER	UNHAMPERED BY FACTS AND INFORMATION	`Mon Jun 01 1992 16:02`	6
	I agree with Dick in that Blue Jays eat about anything. If you are further interested in Feeding Wild Birds you can read the notesfile: CLT::WILD_BIRDS Doug
669.5	Sunflower Seeds	DKAS::FEASE	Andrea Midtmoen Fease	`Mon Jun 01 1992 16:18`	5
	Blue Jays especially love the sunflower seeds. I get mixed seed, and the stupid ;^) blue jays throw the millet and other seed out of the feeder in order to get the sunflower seeds! - Andrea
669.6	Stupid Blue Jays?	AVIAN::KIRSCHBAUM	Every Tank Should Have It's Moray	`Mon Jun 01 1992 18:01`	13
	Obnoxious, Loud, Pushy, yeah...but certainly not stupid! Actually, all of the seed that the Jays push out gets eaten by the Doves and the Pheasants, not to mention squirels, chipmunks etc... Maybe it saves a few bites out of the garden... :-) -dick