Gokha
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How often can I feed my birds Harrison's bird bread? My birds are in love with it.
The main reason I'm asking is that all of a sudden Walad (my cockatiel) started refusing to eat the pellets. She now willingly eats veggies sprinkled with either crushed pellets or crushed Harrison's treat and she loves the bird bread from Harrison's. She's not even into seeds as much anymore. I can't leave vegetables in her bowl for the whole day while I'm at work, so I'm wondering if it's okay to give her the bird bread instead and veggies when I'm back?
Can this change in her preferences be connected to hormones and her desire to lay eggs, so she prefers softer food now?
Another change in her behavior is that she keeps flying down to the floor and tries to chew the wall, searching for calcium? She has a cuttlebone and calcium perch in her cage though. Also, even when I'm near she keeps making a flock call, constantly. As if she's trying to tell me that she wants something, but I can't figure out what exactly.
I spoke to the vet and he told me to give her crushed eggs shell mixed in her food and hard boiled egg yolk twice a week. Does this advice make sense to you guys?
The main reason I'm asking is that all of a sudden Walad (my cockatiel) started refusing to eat the pellets. She now willingly eats veggies sprinkled with either crushed pellets or crushed Harrison's treat and she loves the bird bread from Harrison's. She's not even into seeds as much anymore. I can't leave vegetables in her bowl for the whole day while I'm at work, so I'm wondering if it's okay to give her the bird bread instead and veggies when I'm back?
Can this change in her preferences be connected to hormones and her desire to lay eggs, so she prefers softer food now?
Another change in her behavior is that she keeps flying down to the floor and tries to chew the wall, searching for calcium? She has a cuttlebone and calcium perch in her cage though. Also, even when I'm near she keeps making a flock call, constantly. As if she's trying to tell me that she wants something, but I can't figure out what exactly.
I spoke to the vet and he told me to give her crushed eggs shell mixed in her food and hard boiled egg yolk twice a week. Does this advice make sense to you guys?