Hi. So I have two budgies who I've been trying to ween onto veggies (if anyone has suggestions in the way of this... I'll take em. Right now I'm just aiming for consistency, but don't want to go to any starving techniques, most I've tried was only veggies an hour in the morning and yielding no results.)
One of them isn't fully blind - but he can't see super well. This is only partially important, but basically I only put the veggies directly in his bowl because otherwise he wouldn't even know they were there, probably. I've been cutting them nice and small, and unlike my other budgie, he hasn't had any fear of them for me to try and get him past -- he just doesn't understand how to bite them. He chomps on his seeds fine, but both with toys and these veggies, he'll just hold them in his beak with not enough force to actually eat any veggies.
Back when I first got him he was more unhealthy than usual for a new budgie from a petstore in the diet department, so for a few days I gave him purely carrot baby food mixed with his seed and it seemed to work well for him. Would something like this, --I would probably blend them myself, not buy baby food, but create the same consistently-- be okay for a constant diet?
I haven't found anything to the contrary, but I think most people don't do it because their birds don't like the texture/they prefer the stimulation of whole/chopped veggies. But Benji didn't have an issue in the past, so is that a fine way to get him the same nutrition? Has anyone done this before? TIA. : )
TL;DR *i write a lot sorry*; Is their any disadvantage to blended veggies if you're budgie has no interest in them otherwise?
One of them isn't fully blind - but he can't see super well. This is only partially important, but basically I only put the veggies directly in his bowl because otherwise he wouldn't even know they were there, probably. I've been cutting them nice and small, and unlike my other budgie, he hasn't had any fear of them for me to try and get him past -- he just doesn't understand how to bite them. He chomps on his seeds fine, but both with toys and these veggies, he'll just hold them in his beak with not enough force to actually eat any veggies.
Back when I first got him he was more unhealthy than usual for a new budgie from a petstore in the diet department, so for a few days I gave him purely carrot baby food mixed with his seed and it seemed to work well for him. Would something like this, --I would probably blend them myself, not buy baby food, but create the same consistently-- be okay for a constant diet?
I haven't found anything to the contrary, but I think most people don't do it because their birds don't like the texture/they prefer the stimulation of whole/chopped veggies. But Benji didn't have an issue in the past, so is that a fine way to get him the same nutrition? Has anyone done this before? TIA. : )
TL;DR *i write a lot sorry*; Is their any disadvantage to blended veggies if you're budgie has no interest in them otherwise?
