converting to pellets.

zoerat · Post by **zoerat** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:43 pm

Mango refuses to eat pellets. hell pace the bottom of the cage at night time feed time for anything but pellets. he has them in his cage all the time but would rather starve then eat them. any suggestions? ive tried mixing sed with them but he eats the seed and leaves the pellets

julie · Post by **julie** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:24 am

try soaking the pellets in water and then when it gets mushy mix seeds in. Do it with a few more seeds at first and then eventually have more pellets than seed. The idea is that when the birds are picking through the mush to get to the seeds they start getting some pellets whilst getting the seeds out. After a while they start eating the pellets with out even realizing.

zoerat · Post by **zoerat** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:15 am

cool will try it at breakfast time

julie · Post by **julie** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:43 am

you can add some fruit and veg into the mush if you like.

floridamedgirl · Post by **floridamedgirl** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:30 pm

try wetting the pellets with a diluted fruit juice instead of water.. like applejuice or something. Just be careful to monitor what he is eating in that soupy mix because seeds get funky and moldy very quickly when moist. so mix it together and what he doesnt eat within a few hours take out of the cage.

try the coarse harrisons pepper pellets. Supposedly, it helps wean them because they like the pepper. I always just keep one bowl in the cage with a mixture of pellet, seed and either a millet spray or maybe a dried chili pepper. He goes to the bowl maybe once a day and he picks out what he wants. Im feeding the zupreem fruit pellets right now and for a while he wouldnt eat the yellow ones (shaped like little bananas!) so at the end of the week all that would be left is seed shells and bananas haha! he choses a different one every week that he 'doesnt want'

Good Luck, they are fiesty little buggers