Pellets Other Than Harrison's for Picky Grey?

[Cockatude]

My Congo has been healthy all his life except for two issues. In '21, he and my other bird caught an infection at a boarding place, and recently, he suffered from watery poop. This last time, the vet put him on fluconazole because she found a lot of yeast when she checked him. Now he's fine.

She said I should improve his diet. He gets some Kaytee Fiesta in the morning, and other than that, it's what I eat. Fruit, bits of pasta and pizza, a little meat, eggs, and so on. Can't get him to eat green vegetables. I keep seeing people recommend that, but I have never seen a bird go for it.

Fiesta contains a lot of seeds as well as dried fruit, peanuts, and pellets.

I tried getting him to eat Harrison's High Potency because it's supposed to be a gateway to Harrison's regular pellets. He will literally eat almost nothing until late afternoon if I give him this stuff and nothing else. He hates it.

Is there a pellet out there grey owners have had success with? I don't want to force him to eat Harrison's if he can't stand it.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I'd rather eat pizza too.

 

[Cockatude]

Yesterday we had red Thai curry.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

My budgies eat anything that we're eating and drink anything we're drinking. They fly over and steal food off our plates and try to drink out of cans. I shoo them away if it has onions or something else toxic to birds. They also like to lick up grains of salt from our plates. Eating is a very social activity.

 

[rheashard2]

I don't know why but my CAG loves Harrison's lifetime pepper blend. She loves it to the point she eats every crumb. I stress every crumb. Purchased it on a whim. She's been eating High Potency Coarse since 4 months. Those she nibbles on.

 

[Jcas]

I feed Tops and Lafebers to my ultra-picky Quaker parrot and he will at least nibble on them occasionally. He absolutely loathes Harrison’s. He threw it to the dog ( wish I was joking but he really did ) . He is also not a big fan of greens and veggies but I keep trying. After two years, I finally got photographic proof of him eating broccoli!

 

[cnyguy]

The only pellets my CAG Scooter would eat were ZuPreem Fruit Blend, and only certain colors.

Whatever pellets you try, you might try softening some in a small glass with water or unsweetened fruit juice. Let them sit just long enough so they're soft and a little mushy, then offer some to your Grey. That helps introduce pellets to parrots unused to eating them or who might be reluctant to eat dry pellets. My Quaker Ralph thought they were a special treat and he had to have some every day.

 

[kme3388]

Parrots can be such picky eaters. Some of them could be professional food critics. I finally have all 4 of my parrots on the same food. It took forever. My jenday conure was being a stickler. It took years to get her to accept pellets. My husband is a big softy, and would give her peanuts, and sunflower seeds behind my back. I’m more of the “strict” diet one in our marriage. It really can take a long time to transfer a parrot from a seed diet to a pellet one. Don’t get discouraged.

All 4 of my parrots like to eat what I’m eating. They beg like dogs. One of my parrots can become aggressive over food. One of my parrots is aggressive over his food dish, and means business.