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~*Gwennie*~ · Post by **~*Gwennie*~** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:54 pm

I'm going to switch my green bugger to pellets. he's going to be very mad at me... i know this. I have decided that i'm just going to switch him, because before i just tried to convert him and it didn't work. AT ALL. so he'll either eat the pellets or starve. he's too smart to starve. my question is, what size pellets do you feed your IRN? do you have a link? Thx!

Donna · Post by **Donna** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:06 pm

Hey Gwennie

All my ringnecks took to the Lafebers medium size pellets. Even the rescued ringnecks I have that were on just a seed diet their whole life did not have a problem switching to these pellets. you can also try soaking them in some apple juice just to get him to taste them. Good luck!!

Donna

Kateykat · Post by **Kateykat** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:11 am

My two terrors love their Roudybush medium sized pellets.
My teils are eating pellets now too, Vetafarm. What I did for my teils might help with your boy. I soaked the pellets in warm water with a handful of seeds and made a 'meatloaf' bar out of the mushy pellets and seed mix. Then let it dry and put that bar in their dish. They chewed through that to get to the seeds. It took about a week and a half/ nearly two weeks of doing that before they would start eating the pellets I had in there, but now there is no going back for them. I have to say that they look alot better eating a pellet based diet then when they had just the seed (they turned their feathery noses up at wholesome fruit and veg).
I can reccomend Roudybush, my two lick the bowl clean, literally lol :lol:

~*Gwennie*~ · Post by **~*Gwennie*~** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:59 pm

so i kind of improvised. I gave him an orange for snack, and squeezed some of the juice over top of his pellets. He went over and nibbled....hopefully this will work. He and i will both have to be patient. lol

Mikaela · Post by **Mikaela** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:40 am

Very proud !

Dani03 · Post by **Dani03** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:24 pm

The 'either you eat it or starve' method works...atleast it did for Prin and Baby...

Dani

~*Gwennie*~ · Post by **~*Gwennie*~** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:22 pm

i just got home, and guess who i am watching eat pellets? yup! you guessed it. He does not seem to like the ones that look like bananas tho lol!

CatsChair · Post by **CatsChair** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:00 pm

I have to laugh--give the tiels pellets and they will eat them happily, but we start with the red and orange ones, then the bananas....not sure if we ever eat the green ones cuz I refill their bowl when I am laughing. What patience (and considering all the other food in their cage, this must be really fun)

Kateykat · Post by **Kateykat** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:43 pm

Yeah louie!!! You good baby you

Bird crazy · Post by **Bird crazy** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:54 am

You done good but I bet Louis is upset that you caught him in the act.
He's probably liked them all along just thought he'd give you
a run for you money on this one. :lol:

~*Gwennie*~ · Post by **~*Gwennie*~** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:52 pm

**update**

So Lou seems to be adjusting well to the pellets. I'm happy, and he'll be healthier.

Plus i found a place to buy them in bulk

IndianRingNeck.com

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