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Anyone elses fid dunk stuff in their water? Lou loves to...

*grumbles something about bird soup*

Yeah Prinny will and so will Aggie. I swear they are part raccoon. I keep telling Prin that if she continues to make her 'birdie soup' I will make sure she is the next ingredient. LOL

Dani

Oh yeah, Magellan has a whole collection in the water. Somehow, the cockatiels have now learned it is a fun game too!

Nila will put things in the water, but rarely takes them back out or eats them.
Priya however had a small leaf of lettuce that she actually dunked up and down tasted it, put it in the water and swished it around, took it back out and turned it over and over and ate some and did some more dunking before she finally dropped the leftovers next to the dish.

Now that's a dunker!

izzy dunks everything! summer and skye also dunk. Milagro not so much, big bird and the quakers-not at all!

I think it has some thing to do with being hand fed as a baby. My wild caught cockatoo does not do this but everybody else does. Yuk!!

Donna

Yes and it smells horrid.

I actually think it is a clever ploy to get attention, since scuzzy looking water gets me to change it immediately, then when Magellan jumps down to get it and lands on my hand.....I am way too easy to sidetrack! Suspect the 'tiels are just copying, thought they love the attention too!

Hane loves to get the wooden pieces off his toys and dunk them. The first time he did it was with a red piece and I thought he had bled into the water!
He has so far had blue, red, green, yellow, purple, and orange feet.

Now that he has a perch spanning his cage, he dunks his pellets and nibbles on them. I can't wait to change his cage arrangement...

His latest dunk was a giant whiffle ball I got for the bottom of his cage. I wake up to sporadic banging and look over to see Hane struggling up the side of his cage, head swinging wildly trying to hold the wiffleball all the way to the water dish. He dropped it a few times but finally managed to push it over the edge and it plunked into his water dish.
He swirled it around for a bit and then promtly picked it up and dropped it back to the bottom of the cage. Just for fun.

aren't they cute when they do that??? Prinny has some foot toys at the bottom of her cage that she likes to pick up and bring them all the way to the top of the cage and drop.

Oh and she loves to 'fish'...she sticks her foot in between the grates and fishes for dropped goodies...dork

Dani

Hi all,

I don't know if it was accident or purposeful dunking, but my new "tiel" Birdicles had what remained of his cuttlebone in his water dish....what an exotic odor it created!!!


Skippie (the Birddad in the gas mask and rubber suit with the long tongs phoning the EPA)

Shelby dunks all her food, well mostly, into the water. Anything like pizza crust or taco shells.. crackers when she gets them.. but I've not seen her dunking toys or nuts in there.

She does bathe in her water dish though.. would that count as a full body dunk?

Sounds logical to me, dunks self as well as food.

fiona has a water bottle, but before she dunked and she puts her balls and toys in her food bowls. She also has a "roll 'a' nest" on her play stand that has toys and stuff and she'll drop stuff in there.

Water bottle

They exist for birds and work well?

No more bird soup that I hate so very much?

Inform ME !!!

I Despise Bird Soup more than bird boo. FOR REAL. HATE IT!!

Yes they do Mik...but I know my Prin...she'd just shove her food up the nozzle...yuck

Dani

lol Lou had a water bottle...he use to stand on it
I used to have to refill it a zillion times a day.

If there is anyway Baby can 'malfunction it', we will.

If its plastic, he'll simply eat it.

boys will be boys!

you can buy glass ones also. I use a guinea pig bottle (plastic) and it is on the outside with the nozzle sticking through the bars. Fiona perches on the nozzle and beds over and gets a drink. It's funny. She caught on to it really fast. I just put a bowl under the bottle and made the bottle drip slowly. Also, most birds will investigate it with there beak and once they realize that if the push that little ball/bar at the end, they get water. It took maybe a week before she'd use it solely. My bottle is huge so she doen't empty it everyday, however, bacteria and stuff can grow in the bottle, just like a bowl but not as bad, so it should be changed like every other day.

Gotta score a glass one

My Gilbert used to wash his corn cob after he ate all the corn on it. Then hang it out to dry ontop of his water tray. Once it was all clean and dry he'd chuck it in his tub (bin) outside the cage for us to empty. (he would not let us touch it until it was dry!) weird bird, been watching us do the dishes too much! Strange human like things they do!

My chickies have never touched water bottles they prefer the open water so they can have baths. So I change their water twice a day.