GreyNickels
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She was from a home that meant well, and probably did very well at socializing and desensitizing her, but her diet and veterinary care left a lot to be desired. Our avian vet has said that she saw a 25 year old grey regrow plucked feathers, so she said we have a chance with good diet, to potentially regrow her feathers. Not that we don't love her just the way she is, but surely, winters must be warmer with a shirt on. 
She does great with foraging toys - we stuffed almonds inside of vine balls, and wrapped peanuts in coffee filters, and hid them around her cage. We put an almond inside of a paper dixie cup, and squashed the cup up. So far, she has eagerly gone after every challenge we have given her without hesitation.
So far, the only pellet we got her to eat, were the Fresh Baked Bites, soaked in cider. Everything else we have tried has failed. I've tried witholding food and only offering pellets, I've tried mixing them in with her seed, I've pretended that they came out of my bag of M&Ms, and I was sharing... nuthin.
Fruits and veggies.... she has eaten green beans, broccoli, apple, although the quantity of green beans and broccoli was pathetic. Previous owners said she will eat (whole) apples, broccoli/cauli, and cooked carrots/ pumpkin. And yea, she doesn't know what an almond sliver is. If it's not in the shell, she won't touch it. She won't touch pistachios with a 10ft pole, and apples MUST be whole, not sliced.
We do have a green cheek conure, who eats everything under the sun, and we make Chop for him... so we keep trying to push the chop with Pippi too. She has poked at it every time I offered it and sneaks a piece of Quinoa out if she thinks I'm not looking. We tried to put sunflower seeds in it, hoping she would dig the seeds out and eventually develop a taste for Chop. But she won't even dig the sunflower seeds out of it. She will happily shred Nutriberries, but won't eat them. *sigh*
I think I need to go heavy on brown rice (something her previous owners would feed occasionally) and maybe add very very finely chopped veggies, or maybe even start with cooking in veggie juice? we are going to be facing a very very long road with her nutrition, but I'm not giving up. If nothing else, her feathers that she does have, are in horrible condition, I'd like to pretty them up.
She does great with foraging toys - we stuffed almonds inside of vine balls, and wrapped peanuts in coffee filters, and hid them around her cage. We put an almond inside of a paper dixie cup, and squashed the cup up. So far, she has eagerly gone after every challenge we have given her without hesitation.
So far, the only pellet we got her to eat, were the Fresh Baked Bites, soaked in cider.
Everything else we have tried has failed. I've tried witholding food and only offering pellets, I've tried mixing them in with her seed, I've pretended that they came out of my bag of M&Ms, and I was sharing... nuthin. Fruits and veggies.... she has eaten green beans, broccoli, apple, although the quantity of green beans and broccoli was pathetic. Previous owners said she will eat (whole) apples, broccoli/cauli, and cooked carrots/ pumpkin. And yea, she doesn't know what an almond sliver is. If it's not in the shell, she won't touch it. She won't touch pistachios with a 10ft pole, and apples MUST be whole, not sliced.
We do have a green cheek conure, who eats everything under the sun, and we make Chop for him... so we keep trying to push the chop with Pippi too. She has poked at it every time I offered it and sneaks a piece of Quinoa out if she thinks I'm not looking. We tried to put sunflower seeds in it, hoping she would dig the seeds out and eventually develop a taste for Chop. But she won't even dig the sunflower seeds out of it.
She will happily shred Nutriberries, but won't eat them. *sigh*I think I need to go heavy on brown rice (something her previous owners would feed occasionally) and maybe add very very finely chopped veggies, or maybe even start with cooking in veggie juice? we are going to be facing a very very long road with her nutrition, but I'm not giving up. If nothing else, her feathers that she does have, are in horrible condition, I'd like to pretty them up.
