More interesting than my face? Just kidding! I have lots of more interesting things around the house and I'll try anything. Also, in the meantime, although she weaned easily at six weeks after handfeeding from hatching, I'm beginning to wonder if she has an "eating disorder". She watches me in the kitchen (part of the main room of our house where we hang out) as I prepare human food and she insists on eating whatever I prepare off my plate, even when I make her own dish. I don't let her eat anything she shouldn't. I wonder if since she was a very enthusiastic hand feeder as a baby and she watched excitedly as I prepared her formula, maybe she associates me and the kitchen with food FOR HER. I have never had a budgie with such bizarre eating habits. She also eats her tiny Harrison's pellets a little bit of seed and fresh greens. Should I be concerned about her eating obsession? Any way I can stop it short of banning her from the dinner table?
What could be more interesting than my face? Just kidding! She is easily distracted short-term but keeps coming back for more within minutes. I just wish she would chill out and relax. It seems to be an over excitement problem and I hope as she matures (she's less than four months old) she will calm down.
More troubling is Rocky's obsession with food- specifically what I'm eating on my plate. If what I'm eating is healthy for birds, I prepare her a small dish in hopes she will be satisfied with that but she insists on eating out of my plate. Since I hand fed Rocky from hatching (I had to) and starting at less than three weeks old, she eagerly watched me prepare her baby formula every time I fed her, several times a day, even though she weaned easily at six weeks old when she rejected hand feedings. II wonder if watching me prepare meals for myself and my husband puts her back into her babyhood hand fed mindset even though she eats on her own. I haven't hand fed her for two months so I would think she has long forgotten about it, but I have never had a budgie or heard of a budgie that was as obsessed with eating my food as she is. Big parrots, perhaps, but a budgie? It seems very odd. Maybe its because not many budgies are hand fed from day one, without nestmates or at least one bird parent for at least the first few weeks. All I know is that Rocky is more like a spoiled puppy than a parrot, much less a budgie, and more difficult to discipline. Will she ever stop her obsession with eating my food or will I have to put her in her cage and cover it at dinnertime? I want her to be happy healthy member of my family and continue to eat a wide variety of healthy foods and not turn into a "millet head" like many budgies, with all the health issues that causes. Please advise me on whether I should be concerned and what to do. Thanks.
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