Today, I moved Scout's food dish to the top of her perch. She ate with gusto! Today was the first time in a long time she ate 3 consistent and good meals. This morning she had a stir fry mix containing red peppers, carrots, green beans, and baby corn cobs. This afternoon she had some seed and diced apple. Tonight for supper, she is enjoying steamed baby carrots and steamed apples (leftovers from this afternoon). I'm now going to work on front-loading her with vitamins through food. In her cage, offered at all time, is a dish of 3 different types of pellets (Zupreem fruity, Pretty Bird, and Harrison's) and a container of Cheerios, as well as fresh water. She ate on both. I do give her a bit of seed at night because I don't have her completely transferred over to pellets and vegetables yet. That's coming. When I give her seed, I sprinkle an avian multivitamin and grate some cuttle bone on it. I know seed is not the healthiest food for her, hardly more than a treat, but it is something I am trying to work on changing with her. I've thought a lot about going on ahead and starting to mix a 25% pellet to 75% seed mix and slowly moving it (changing the ratios weekly) to 50-50, then 75-25, then lower, until she doesn't have a choice but to eat the pellets. Another option that I have thought of is grinding up pellets and mixing it with some seed, to make it easier, and then gradually increasing the size of the pellets.
So, by changing up some food and offering it to her in different ways, especially if I microwave it first and warm it up, she may accept new foods a bit better.
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