Jessira
Sitting on the front steps
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- Jessica
The last few days my cockatiel has been doing something kinda weird. He gets soacked buckwheat with his veggies every morning, and for some reason the last few days he's been eating the buckwheat without chewing it? It's not in the shell, it's hulled. Normally though he chews it and grinds it up
Is this normal to do sometimes? He's started his first molt I don't know if this is a behavior for that? Or maybe diet preferences change when they are molting?
I don't know if he does it with other seeds or not because I can't really see if he does or not, but the soaked buckwheat is big enough that I can see he's just picking them up and swallowing them. He also normally really likes veggies, but he's barely touching them right now. I have all his favorites in there this week. Broccoli, zucchini, cilantro. He loves this stuff, but he's barely touching it. Then going nuts when I give him his dry grain/seed mix with pellets in the evening.
Is this normal to do sometimes? He's started his first molt I don't know if this is a behavior for that? Or maybe diet preferences change when they are molting?
I don't know if he does it with other seeds or not because I can't really see if he does or not, but the soaked buckwheat is big enough that I can see he's just picking them up and swallowing them. He also normally really likes veggies, but he's barely touching them right now. I have all his favorites in there this week. Broccoli, zucchini, cilantro. He loves this stuff, but he's barely touching it. Then going nuts when I give him his dry grain/seed mix with pellets in the evening.