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From: donnelly@cbnewsj.att.com (jeffrey.m.donnelly)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: INDOOR: Eat something else please
Keywords: cockatiel food variety
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.184259.15771@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 14 Feb 91 18:42:59 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I'm beginning to get worried about my tiels diet.  He's about 6 months
now (we've had him for 2) and we can't get him to eat anything but
the yellow millet in the tiel food (with vitamins) or millet spray.
He will eat a little lettuce but only if hand fed.  He will pick at
other food and chew it but I think he is just making smaller pieces
out of bigger ones.  He LOVES to hull peas but doesn't eat them.

We've tried lots of tricks like eating things in front of him
(Crazy corn is acutally quite tasty :-) ) but he just looks at us.

Oh, I forgot, he will eat wheat flakes with us at breakfast.  He
likes to grab a flake off our spoon and nibble it to death.

We would like to get him to eat the Crazy corn and eat the other
seeds in his mix.  He'll hull the other seeds but won't eat them.

One thing of note is that it took about a week for him to get off
baby food onto the adult tiel millet.

Any advice?
Will his tastes expand with age?
Will we succeed with persistance?
Will he get sick on just millet?
Any similar experiences?

Thanks,
	Jeff