Jet ate parakeet pellets

[gracebowen]

My sunflower seeds come in a hard plastic jar. Jet knows this. I can't eat them if he's on my shoulder because as soon as I pick up the jar he is right there wanting them.

I decided to mix up a seed..pellet..dried veggies batch to make feeding easier. They came to me on a seed diet and I need to convert them. Lately I've fallen into just feeding seeds and I want to do better. I decided to put the mix in empty sunflower seed jars. Jet came over to investigate and started eating out of the jar. I picked up a pellet from his mix. He tasted it and spit it out.

Then thinking maybe any pellets are better than seeds I put some parakeet pellets in my hand and offered them to him.

He ate them.

Could I keep feeding him these so he will at least eat pellets or is this a bad ideal.

Also I have noticed that if Jet (tiel) eats it Ace(parakeet) is more likely to eat it.

 

[Puck]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that nutritionally cockatiel pellets and budgie pellets are the same, they are simply a different size. (Assuming they are the same brand, of course.)

 

[gracebowen]

I don't know I bought my pellets in bulk. I can call or go to the store tomorrow and find out.

 

[gracebowen]

The pet store said the little pellets have 3x the fat 1.5 percent more protein and 3.5 more fiber

 

[Puck]

What brands are the two kinds of food? Do you know what Jet likes more about the budgie food? Colors, size, texture? How are they different?

 

[gracebowen]

Zupreem. If I had to guess I would say the size. The bigger pellets my pinkie nail could hold 1 on top. I could turn my pinkie over and hold one, almost 2.

 

[Puck]

Well, according to the Zupreem website they both have exactly the same ingredients and protein and fat ratios. I'm not certain your petstore people know what they are talking about... I couldn't find anywhere on the Zupreem website where it said Zupreem Natural small is any different at all from Zupreem Natural medium other than in size.

Zupreem Website w/ Ingredients

 

[gracebowen]

Thanks for finding that for me. I had looked but couldn't find that info online. Sometimes I miss having a computer.

I'll just keep buying the smaller pellets then. Now that I have got Jet eating them Ace should start.

I think it's cute Jet associated the container with food and accepted what was in it as food.