Pellet dipping

[skypros]

Today I noticed Shasta Going to her Pellet food dish, getting a pellet then walking over and dipping her beak into her water dish.... She would also go back and double dip the same pellet.
Kinda Cute

 

[riddick07]

Monster does this but with all his food. His water looks like nasty slop by the end! Cute until you have to clean it every time you pass the dish

 

[jenphilly]

Wait til you catch her drowning a toy... was a bad toy, very bad... or dirty and needed a bath, depends on how you want to view it!!!

 

[JamesC]

Rosco dunks (and leaves) all of his pellets. I moved the water to the other side of the cage yet I will come home and find half his pellets floating in the soupy mess. Since he won't eat natural pellets it can be quite colorful.

Now the interesting thing is my Senegal Sidney. If it is a moist food like fruits and veggies, he won't dip. But pellets or dry nuts it goes right in for a quick dunk. I'm assuming that he knows the food goes down easier when wet. If I give him an almond he dunks, bites and dunks the remainder and continues in that pattern until done.

 

[Allee]

I have three dippers. One quaker hates to be wet but likes his food and toys soaked. I've moved his dish several times and change his water several times a day but he keeps doing it. My cockatoo soaks pellets and eats them one at a time and my tiel does the same thing.

 

[Dinosrawr]

Birds don't have salivary glands, so they are perpetual pellet dunkers. When I train Avery I have to stop every now and then to let her grab a drink, haha! Makes me feel like a sports coach or something

 

[Ashleigh86]

Indy also dips all her food! I give her pellets and a veggie/bean/fruit mix and she dips all that too lol I like it because then I know if she's eaten or not if I find food in her water bowl

 

[Sterling1113]

My conures don't like natural pellets either- and when they has the "fruity pebbles" looking pellets they ONLY picked out the blue/purple ones.. so their water was always a bright, rich indigo colour. Eventually I ended up switching their diet though- now it's a mix of seeds and pellets(And fresh food of course) and they have a water bottle, not a bowl, since I bathe them outside the cage anyways. Makes routine cleaning much easier heh.

 

[MikeyTN]

It drives me nuts with Dixie constantly dunking her pellets making a pellet soup....making one nasty mess......