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I was wondering - how many of your have smaller tiels?

Dino hasn't been above 81gm since I brought him home. First off - he's a millet junkie Has no problem eating that. 2nd - he's eat a few pellets if I hand them to him (brat - lol). 3rd - he barely touches the seed mix! He does drink and he nibbles on the honey treat seed stick. He'll eat more greens when on me then if I put the greens on a table or in the cage. He eats scrambled eggs I make with peanut butter ( won't eat PB on bread - go figure!), veggies and keet sized fruity pellet. he poops often, but it is light green, loose with a small puddle of urine.

I've been trying to wean him down on the millet. Yesterday I had pellets and a small amount of millet for him so he would eat the pellets - NOPE!! He'd rather go hungry or be with us. Did I create something that can't be fixed??

I'd love some suggestions to encourage him eating more of a variety of foods.

Jo

Millet is a grain, and fairly healthy, so I wouldn't worry too much. I would break off the pieces and mix them in the seed mix and pellets. Make birdie bread with pellet powder and try different kinds of pellets. Mine will not eat the fruit ones or the Lafeber ones, while they will eat Avi-cakes.

Keep offering all kinds of foods, don't take any away though. Remember, he is still "weaning" and learning about the foods. Let him see you eat the foods and it will help.

The fact that you are offering different foods for him is a very good thing! Keep doing what you are doing. Button will eat the harrison's mash with gusto if I put her on my hand and put the dish under her beak but in the cage she won't. yup, we spoil our birds so long as she is eating.

Dino sounds just like Rosie, she has to be held in order to eat. Everyone in my family says that shes to spoiled. I don't see a problem with it but a couple of days ago when I was at the hospital with my Mom she was alone for 8 hours and she didn't touch her food and when I got home she was so hungry.

I don't really know whats considered a "small bird" but Rosie always seemed to be lighter than what everyone on here would say their birds weighed. She was always about 88grams on average, lately shes averaging about 92grams, more of course after dinner but on average shes 92. She turned 2yrs old in Oct.

my male Noah is a small bird, no idea about his weight but he is just small.
His girl Meg is huge compared to him and even his sons are bigger than him
Perhaps it's overbreeding or inbreeding, I don't know