My senior rescue conure has finally become comfortable enough that I’m able to touch him without him being too fearful. Yesterday I got the chance to feel his body condition, and he feels extremely thin, like I could feel the entire keel bone sharply. I have been feeding him only pellets (which he eats happily) plus the occasional sunflower seed as a training treat, so I thought that increasing the amount of seeds in his diet might help him put on a bit more weight. However, he refuses to eat any seeds besides sunflower seeds, even in a seed mix feed, even millet. I’m writing this mainly because I just realized that the ONLY thing he is eating out of the seed mix is the pellets. Won’t even touch the seeds. This would be totally fine with me if he was at a healthy weight, but I don’t think pellets have enough calories to make him gain. Anyone have ideas of what I could try giving him that would help him put weight back on? I read on here that some people recommend to use baby bird formula for recovering adult birds, but I don’t think he is friendly enough to eat for me out of a spoon or syringe. Nutriberries are out because he won’t eat seeds besides sunflower… I think I will try peanuts and natural peanut butter tomorrow and see if he has any interest in that.
He does have a vet visit scheduled, but since it’s a non emergency visit, it’s a couple weeks out so I just need some recommendations to try to make progress until then.
He does have a vet visit scheduled, but since it’s a non emergency visit, it’s a couple weeks out so I just need some recommendations to try to make progress until then.
