PeanutXoXo
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My sun conure is 8 weeks (no name yet...its been a tough decision haha,) and about week ago she very quickly went from nursing roughly 12cc 3x a day to refusing the syringe/formula and only eating on her own. (I've had her since she was 5 weeks and she always ate so much but was slightly close to being underweight.)
I handfed my other conure, Lolli, and she was hard to ween. She loved nursing.
So with the new baby, I had planned to ween the same way, bring her to twice a day feedings once she started on the pellets and slowly ween her off...but now that new baby has discovered her food bowl, she wont take the formula *at all*.
She is eating pellets, but I am not sure she is eating enough (they are hard for her to chew, so I moisten a few and handfeed them to her because i want her to get more nutrition, but the dry pellets in the food bowl do disappear in slowly.)
The vet said at her first check up that she was slightly on the light side, but not dangerously so, and she stayed slightly lighter until she began eating on her own, & she is a lubricious lady now.
I also started giving her mixed greens and fruit since she wont take the formula. She still isnt holding her food to eat it (at least from what I've seen,) she just picks it up with the beak, takes a chunk off and lets the rest fall, and repeat (or makes me hold her food for her lol.) Her poops look very normal and her energy levels are normal.
I've always tempt their formulas at 104 F. I have tried feeding her in other places (thought at first she just didnt like the feeding box anymore.) I have tried only nursing once a day. She never wants it. She does like the mushy pellets, & she works on eating the dry pellets (slowly) and picks at her fruits and veggies.
Is that adequate nutrition for her age?
If formula is the nutrition she absolutely needs, should I take her pellets away after morning feeding and see if she'll nurse later in the day after crop has emptied? What else can I try?
TL;DR... baby conure eating on her own at 8 weeks but completely refusing formula now. I dont know if pellets and f/v is enough nutrition for a bird this age.
Thanks a ton!
I handfed my other conure, Lolli, and she was hard to ween. She loved nursing.
So with the new baby, I had planned to ween the same way, bring her to twice a day feedings once she started on the pellets and slowly ween her off...but now that new baby has discovered her food bowl, she wont take the formula *at all*.
She is eating pellets, but I am not sure she is eating enough (they are hard for her to chew, so I moisten a few and handfeed them to her because i want her to get more nutrition, but the dry pellets in the food bowl do disappear in slowly.)
The vet said at her first check up that she was slightly on the light side, but not dangerously so, and she stayed slightly lighter until she began eating on her own, & she is a lubricious lady now.
I also started giving her mixed greens and fruit since she wont take the formula. She still isnt holding her food to eat it (at least from what I've seen,) she just picks it up with the beak, takes a chunk off and lets the rest fall, and repeat (or makes me hold her food for her lol.) Her poops look very normal and her energy levels are normal.
I've always tempt their formulas at 104 F. I have tried feeding her in other places (thought at first she just didnt like the feeding box anymore.) I have tried only nursing once a day. She never wants it. She does like the mushy pellets, & she works on eating the dry pellets (slowly) and picks at her fruits and veggies.
Is that adequate nutrition for her age?
If formula is the nutrition she absolutely needs, should I take her pellets away after morning feeding and see if she'll nurse later in the day after crop has emptied? What else can I try?
TL;DR... baby conure eating on her own at 8 weeks but completely refusing formula now. I dont know if pellets and f/v is enough nutrition for a bird this age.
Thanks a ton!