Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!btr!decwrl!argosy!helen From: helen@argosy.UUCP (Helen Kastner) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: INDOOR - Novice questions about pet birds Message-ID: <805@argosy.UUCP> Date: 19 Dec 90 16:03:12 GMT References: <2730005@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1990Dec17.124702.5237@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@argosy.UUCP Reply-To: helen@europa.UUCP (Helen Kastner) Organization: MasPar Computer Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 18 >>> 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 > > Try mixing the seeds with the vegetables, rice, etc. If the bird must The best way to get my cockatoo to try new foods is to eat them in front of him. Unfortunately, he likes junk just as much as the rest of us--pepperoni pizza, chili verde burritos (especially the meat)--but he will still eat just about anything I have, including veggies. He likes mashed stuff--potatoes (white and yellow), mushed peas and carrots, etc. But you'd be amazed at how far he can fling food he doesn't like--brussel sprouts flew across the room. hk