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Whatever I'm eating....beer, coffee, twinkies... Just kiddin. The whatever I'm eating and act like I don't want to share is a surefire way to get them to eat it.

I agree with the above two- I wouldn't risk it. I'm sure there are plenty of fruits and veggies that have vitamin A. A quick google gave me this: Food sources of vitamin A Fruits and vegetables. Dark green leafy vegetables, for example amaranth (red or green), spinach and chard. Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. Carrots. Squashes/pumpkins. Yellow maize. Mangoes. Papayas.

No way I'd touch that without talking to a vet. I see no reason to risk any side affects.

Alfie gets a small amount of seed mix with no sunflower seeds or peanuts. I offer him roudybush pellets as I have been through every single pellet that I can find and these are the only ones that he sometimes eats a small amount of- but if he gets a bowl with just pellets he immediately tips it out. He gets a small amount of dried fruit and I have a veggie soaking mix that I offer regularly (that he mostly ignores). I offer him fresh raw veggies whenever I'm preparing my dinner and he'll SOMETIMES take a little nibble. Managed to get him to eat a couple of bites of raw carrot yesterday- usually he would just fling it straight back at me. I offer him safe food options off my plate but he's never normally interested. He never steals from my plate either. I also have a soaking mix for pulses/beans but he detests that. I have tried sprouting too - no luck there either. He liked sweet potato mash for a while so I kept hiding finely chopped veggies in that. Now he won't touch sweet potato mash, even if it's plain. (But eats regular mashed potatoes when we visit my parents!) He gets pine nuts as training treats (as they are his absolute favourite) and he gets small pieces of walnuts and other pieces of mixed nuts occasionally- usually hidden away in foraging toys. I try and mix it up for him and try lots of different ways of offering healthier food options- I've hung fruit and veg off a skewer, I have created foraging trays with treats and veggies hidden in it, I have pretended that it's something really tasty that he can't have (he just walks off, uninterested). I've tried raw as well as cooked (in various ways). I call it a win when he actually tries something- as most of the time he'll just ignore it or fling it at me. 😄 He has quite a few foraging toys now so I use those and put a mix of all his dry foods plus a few treats in (nothing fresh or wet because they're a bugger to clean out). My hope is that he'll accidentally eat some of the foods he would normally ignore in his bowl (like the pellets) whilst trying to get to the good stuff.

@AkkiDa My CAG grazes all day, I would never withhold food. And frankly, soaked pellets sounds gross to me. If my CAG absolutely refused pelleted food -- I'd just let him win that battle. @tikobird256 Mine is an overall good eater -- but after 24 years it makes sense that he's 'accidentally' tried most foods and eventually decided they weren't the devil's poison. Mine readily accepts fresh fruit/veg, cooked rice&pasta, some nuts -- plus mine eats some of my dinner (as well as eating seed and pellets). But when I got him, he'd eaten mostly seed (but he did already like fruit). I say keep offering him things. And I don't mix/hide foods -- mine likes to carefully select and examine each morsel he eats. So you probably won't fool yours by 'mixing' or 'hiding' it in with other foods. My experience, anyway. As far as waste, I dump all his dishes outside and the outdoor birdies/squirrels eat what mine 'didn't eat'. "Didn't eat" doesn't mean rejected, I just put too much in his dishes.

Like Greytness, we use a cotton, braided rope perch for Corey. We have different sizes so she isn't forced to keep her feet in the same position all the time. I captured a picture from the internet and pasted it into a document [attached] so you can see it. Corey really likes these perches. She also has a manzanita perch in her cage and she will go to that perch sometimes. RopePerch.docx

I have a combination of dragon wood and rope perches. The sandy perches never worked for my flock.

Any suggestions??

Timber also has a variety of wood types and sizes, as well as a rope boing that goes to the ceiling. He doesn't chew on them either. Well except for the boing, he loves to chew on that and it has to be replaced pretty regularly or his talons will start getting caught in it.

Second that. I wouldn't give any supplements without vet approval. Other foods have vitamin A too.

Alfie has all sorts of different perches in and out of his cage. Java, manzanita, rope, 'calcium'/cuttlebone/mineral, 'bee pollen'. I make sure they are varied in shapes and sizes so his feet get a good workout 😄 Weirdly, Alfie has never chewed his perches- even the edible calcium/cuttlebone ones.

I have one! It's a Caitec stainless steel swinging perch that has 3 bells hanging down. All 3 of my greys absolutely love it! A bit pricey, but worth every single penny. Stainless Steel Swing with Natural Wood Perch | Caitec Corporation

There are plenty of places online. Where are you located, that would help narrow it down.

I use manzanita wood for his fave high perch, plus mine has a cage-width-wide pine perch (came with the cage and which I've replaced a few times), plus a cotton braided rope spiral swing, and an acrylic ring swing. They are all various thicknesses so he doesn't get foot fatigue. (I'm sad to report he also had a rough concrete perch in the 90s [supposed to keep nails trimmed] but I've changed my position on those and removed them).

They don't lie down to sleep. Short of play time when mine might lie on his back for me, mine always sleeps standing on one leg.

Only 7 of my birds like to eat pellets in their natural state. I only offer the organic Harrison's pellets. I do make my own birdie bread where I use a food processor to finely grind up the pellets which I use as the bread's 'flour', along with any veggies they normally won't eat. LOL! Daily mine get a large variety of fresh veggies that they normally do eat, sprouts and some fruit in the morning and a small amount of high quality seed/nut/pods/dried fruit mixture that doesn't contain sunflower seeds or peanuts, a few raw nuts (macaws receive more) and pellets.

Timber won't eat pellets either, and I really think he'd starve if that is all he had. He is underweight anyway, so it's a chance I can't take. So, his diet is vegetables, meat and seed. He does waste a lot, but I don't care as long as he is maintaining his weight. Have you tried birdie bread? It's cornbread but you can add baby food and all kinds of things to slip by her if she likes it.