Puck
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- Mar 8, 2015
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Oh my gosh guys, it's like the first day of kindergarten!!! I feel like I should take a picture!!!
After about six months of trying everything I could possibly think of to get Lucille to eat her greens, my super sweet galah is CHOWING AWAY!!! And guess what the problem was???? Her foraging wheel!
I serve her just greens and various veggies in the morning, then pellets mixed with greens, various veggies, and a few fruits later in the day. I have only been able to get her to eat one or two bites of greens up until now--she would only eat pellets.
Today I realized that she has a clear foraging wheel in her cage. It is empty in the sense that it has just dust and one or two pellets at the bottom, but apparently THAT has been enough to give her hope and have her refusing her greens all this time! I saw this morning that she was gazing at it after looking into her healthy morning meal and would immediately go over and mess with it after refusing her greens. So I took it out and now...
She is eating her greens! And I mean picking them up with her foot and munching on them, not taking a single bite down in the bowl and then walking off, which is the most she would do before.
Is it not amazing how the smallest things (like an "empty for all useful purposes" foraging wheel with some pellet dust in it) could be enough to drive a bird to say "screw you, Dad, I'm waiting you out"?
Haha, I am so happy. Finally, she has a chance of being on a balanced diet!
After about six months of trying everything I could possibly think of to get Lucille to eat her greens, my super sweet galah is CHOWING AWAY!!! And guess what the problem was???? Her foraging wheel!
I serve her just greens and various veggies in the morning, then pellets mixed with greens, various veggies, and a few fruits later in the day. I have only been able to get her to eat one or two bites of greens up until now--she would only eat pellets.
Today I realized that she has a clear foraging wheel in her cage. It is empty in the sense that it has just dust and one or two pellets at the bottom, but apparently THAT has been enough to give her hope and have her refusing her greens all this time! I saw this morning that she was gazing at it after looking into her healthy morning meal and would immediately go over and mess with it after refusing her greens. So I took it out and now...
She is eating her greens! And I mean picking them up with her foot and munching on them, not taking a single bite down in the bowl and then walking off, which is the most she would do before.
Is it not amazing how the smallest things (like an "empty for all useful purposes" foraging wheel with some pellet dust in it) could be enough to drive a bird to say "screw you, Dad, I'm waiting you out"?
Haha, I am so happy. Finally, she has a chance of being on a balanced diet!
