The first couple of days, he ate his seeds that we left in his cage all day (same food they were feeding him as where we got him)... and realized after a couple of days he was picky about it as he was only eating his sunflower seeds. So we started taking the sunflower seeds out and left the regular seeds mixed with pellets, etc. He eats them sometimes. About the 2nd day we had him, we introduced him to fresh fruit and veggies - mostly skinless apples, grapes, baby carrots and spinach and romaine lettuce. He loved them all and stopped eating his seeds so much.
The rest of the first week, he ate a lot of nuts - all kinds of unsalted nuts in and out of the shell, walnuts, almonds, peanuts, pistachios, etc, along with lots of apples and grapes to reward him with good behavior and getting him to like us, etc. He ate the seeds even less.
Last week, over a couple of days I started giving him a mini plate in the mornings of warm brown rice, half cooked old fashioned plain oatmeal and apples and grapes and he gobbled it up (didnt finish of course but spent lots of time eating it). For dinner I would give him cooked frozen veggies (kidney beans, white beans, chickpeas, broccoli, corn, carrots, peas, greenbeans) boiled in water for a few seconds. He ate a little of everything and barely touched his seeds.
This past weekend, he has been eating cooked frozen veggies boiled for a few seconds every morning and over dinner with some whole wheat penne pasta (which he devoured last night - all of it!), seeds still in his cage all day just case, with a big vine ball with peanuts in the shell, partially cracked walnuts and almonds for him to forage, which he absolutely destroys
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This morning I realized I most likely will need to buy a second dish bowl to keep his fresh or cooked veggies in to graze throughout the day as sometimes he eats it all at once, others he takes an hour or so to pick at it.
Is this all ok to be feeding him on a daily basis? He likes warm/softer veggies on his plate (he loves corn and carrots!) so the frozen freezer bags is what we've been feeding thus far boiled for a few minutes and served a tiny bit warm - nothing fresh boiled/steamed yet, and the fresher, colder, crunchier veggies as a snack for him to munch... nuts are given on a daily basis (not too much but enough for him to forage as he loves all nuts), sometimes spray millet (but not for a few days), fruit like apples and grapes as a treat... and some grains - whole wheat pasta, some bread and brown rice and oats. I feel good that he's not eating his seeds much as this seems much more nutritious, but he's a bird after all - isnt he supposed to? Is it risky getting him so used to human food and away from seeds? Or is this ideal? I mean, we leave seeds in his cage all day long but he really looks forward to his soft veggies and totally ignores his seeds now.