Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc05!hpdmd48!ellen From: ellen@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Ellen Osinski) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Re: INDOOR - Novice questions about pet birds Message-ID: <2730006@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Date: 17 Dec 90 15:45:02 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID Lines: 16 >>> One other thing: always give your bird vegetables--fresh ones every day. >> >>Our bird REFUSES to eat veggies, fruit, rice,... And we have given up trying >>to force her. We tried the route of 'forcing' her by removing her other >>food for a few days. She would rather starve then eat soft, mushy, strange- > >Well, you came pretty close to the death alternative. You should *never* deny >food to a bird. Their digestive systems cannot take fasting. Not at all. I gave in well before she did. BTW this method was the 'method of choice' recommended by a local well-known bird breeder! Ellen and Jasmine (Ruler of the roost)