I came home this evening after leaving Mango alone for 3-4 hours. She is acting like she is starving and only wants to be hand-fed. Though I filled her bowl with the usual fare, including safflower seeds, almonds, Nutri-Berries, Avi-Cakes, seed mix, pellets, etc, she is begging me to hand-feed her seeds. She doesn't seem to want to feed herself, she wants me to hand-feed her the seeds. I am not sure why she is acting like this.
She has always seemed to enjoy it when I hand-feed her some seeds while she sits on top of her cage. While doing this, she likes to snuggle up real close to me. It always feels like a bonding time. However, it seems that she is starting to like it too much. Or maybe, now that I am using some sunflower seeds when training her, she may be begging for more sunflower seeds. Not sure, but it seems abnormal. Has anyone else ever seen this behavior?
I am REALLY concerned about her diet, but I feel completely helpless to get her to start eating a better diet. I am very worried that she is going to be a very short-lived bird. Her liver and kidnies aren't going to do well on a diet that is 95% safflower seeds. I have tried just about everything I can think of and all of the pointers everyone here has given me, but Mango is just sooooo stubborn. SHE ONLY WANTS SEEDS. It really makes me sad.
