I am hoping someone can help me here, as we are getting concerned.
We brought our little SI Ekkie home about 2 months ago and at the time he was about 340g. As of today, he is still about 340g. Our typical feeding is as such:
Mornings: in his main bowl a varied mixture of veggies, todays was homemade sprouts, corn, green beans, and green peas (frozen/defrosted), carrots, celery, jicama, radish. We will mix in varied other things, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, frozen/defrosted berries, etc..
We also have other foraging bowls in the cage that will get variation of diffferent fresh fruit, pomegranate, wasabi green peas, and about 1 tablespoon of Volkman's Eclectus mix.
I am waiting on a delivery of some Volkman's Soak and Simmer to add to the mix for the morning feeding.
At night he gets a third of a cup of the the seed mix and a few other things, like more pomegranate or somethings we might eat (nothing processed).
As far as quantity for the morning feeding, we had been giving him a big half cup, but have recently increased it to a full cup, after reading Laurella Desborough's recommendations on feeding.
He has never really even finished the half-cup feedings, let alone the full cup. He doesn't act hungry. He is playful and cheery and ridiculously quiet.
He just doesn't seem to have the appetite that I expected through my research and many of the great posts I have read here, and he isn't gaining weight.
Should I be concerned, or doing something different?
thanks
We brought our little SI Ekkie home about 2 months ago and at the time he was about 340g. As of today, he is still about 340g. Our typical feeding is as such:
Mornings: in his main bowl a varied mixture of veggies, todays was homemade sprouts, corn, green beans, and green peas (frozen/defrosted), carrots, celery, jicama, radish. We will mix in varied other things, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, frozen/defrosted berries, etc..
We also have other foraging bowls in the cage that will get variation of diffferent fresh fruit, pomegranate, wasabi green peas, and about 1 tablespoon of Volkman's Eclectus mix.
I am waiting on a delivery of some Volkman's Soak and Simmer to add to the mix for the morning feeding.
At night he gets a third of a cup of the the seed mix and a few other things, like more pomegranate or somethings we might eat (nothing processed).
As far as quantity for the morning feeding, we had been giving him a big half cup, but have recently increased it to a full cup, after reading Laurella Desborough's recommendations on feeding.
He has never really even finished the half-cup feedings, let alone the full cup. He doesn't act hungry. He is playful and cheery and ridiculously quiet.
He just doesn't seem to have the appetite that I expected through my research and many of the great posts I have read here, and he isn't gaining weight.
Should I be concerned, or doing something different?
thanks
