Viridity
Sitting on the front steps
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I would be grateful for anyone's advice on my cockatiel, Cosmo! (He is 5 yo)
He is slowly losing weight, and I'm extremely concerned, because he is already underweight.
I feed him a seed diet, I want to convert him to a pellet diet, but he is refusing to eat the fine-pellets that I've tried introducing in numerous ways (gradual, pretending to eat it, using it for activities, hiding it in his food, etc.) and he just refuses to eat it!
He also refuses to eat any type of vegetable or fruit, occasionally some lettuce or broccoli. I can really only get him to eat popcorn, rice puff-thingies, and spray millet.
Out all of the seeds I have in his seed mix, he only eats the white millet in it, he used to eat sunflower seeds, but he suddenly stopped.
Another thing that makes this difficult, is that Cosmo is scared of new objects, so trying to feed him new foods makes him think the food is going to kill him or something.
Please, I really am scared, and I can't get help from a vet for a long time, and I have no clue what to do. (I'm a minor and my parents are unable to help, as they work 24/7)
I really care about my bird, and I beg anyone to please give me any advice. I just need to know how to help him rapidly gain weight.
He is slowly losing weight, and I'm extremely concerned, because he is already underweight.
I feed him a seed diet, I want to convert him to a pellet diet, but he is refusing to eat the fine-pellets that I've tried introducing in numerous ways (gradual, pretending to eat it, using it for activities, hiding it in his food, etc.) and he just refuses to eat it!
He also refuses to eat any type of vegetable or fruit, occasionally some lettuce or broccoli. I can really only get him to eat popcorn, rice puff-thingies, and spray millet.
Out all of the seeds I have in his seed mix, he only eats the white millet in it, he used to eat sunflower seeds, but he suddenly stopped.
Another thing that makes this difficult, is that Cosmo is scared of new objects, so trying to feed him new foods makes him think the food is going to kill him or something.
Please, I really am scared, and I can't get help from a vet for a long time, and I have no clue what to do. (I'm a minor and my parents are unable to help, as they work 24/7)
I really care about my bird, and I beg anyone to please give me any advice. I just need to know how to help him rapidly gain weight.
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