Momof3litt
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So this week my budgies finally realized that pellets are food and they started eating their pellets (Harrison's) regularly - yay!
They came to me as rescues on an all-seed diet, so I'm thrilled that they have converted. However, they have also been watching my green cheeked conure eat very carefully. On the one hand, this has been great, since it's part of why they started trying to eat pellets. On the other hand, even though they have the same food in his cage, they will suddenly only eat his food, in his cage!
The conure is a baby (14 weeks) and he is still learning that his cage is where his food is, so I am only feeding everybody in cages right now (except for training treats). I wouldn't want a budgie to get cornered in the conure cage and get bitten for being an "intruder". They all spend the day flying freely, so the cage doors all stay open. They also use identical dishes.
Any ideas to get the budgies out of the conure cage and back into their own food?
Gratuitous budgie photo:
They came to me as rescues on an all-seed diet, so I'm thrilled that they have converted. However, they have also been watching my green cheeked conure eat very carefully. On the one hand, this has been great, since it's part of why they started trying to eat pellets. On the other hand, even though they have the same food in his cage, they will suddenly only eat his food, in his cage!
The conure is a baby (14 weeks) and he is still learning that his cage is where his food is, so I am only feeding everybody in cages right now (except for training treats). I wouldn't want a budgie to get cornered in the conure cage and get bitten for being an "intruder". They all spend the day flying freely, so the cage doors all stay open. They also use identical dishes.
Any ideas to get the budgies out of the conure cage and back into their own food?
Gratuitous budgie photo:
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