chloe fighting with a walnut shell

[chloe's mom]

I gave chloe some walnuts and she was eating them and all of a sudden she is yelling bad nut over and over again, so I was watching to see what she was doing and she was banging the shell on the bars and kept yelling bad nut then I saw one of her toe nails was pinched between the shell and she finally got it loose but after that she starting throwing all the walnuts around her cage and said bad nut lol. so I guess she doesn't want them anymore.

[Timbersmom]

LOL Can't fault her logic really though!

[chloe's mom]

I thought maybe I will crack them for her but that would take all the fun out of it for her.

[Timbersmom]

If you could get it to crack in half she would still enjoy digging the meat out. I try to crack Timber's enough to get him started. The walnuts are too big for him to get a good grip on (he's a TAG).

[chloe's mom]

she is a congo and I think that the one had a big enough crack in it for her to start breaking it but small enough to get her toe caught in it.

[Timbersmom]

After that experience, she may be off walnuts for awhile anyway! Poor Chloe..

[kins2321@yahoo.com]

Oh NO! Continue to offer her that walnut. She is having fun! That walnut needs to be tamed... she is into it. Nancy

[judygram]

Chloe didn't like that the nut got the better of her but give her a while and she will be back on them, you can always start them for her then she can still have the fun of digging it out.

[chloe's mom]

well she figured out a new game for them it's called dunk the walnut and shake water everywhere and laugh lol.

[JeffNOK]

How dare that nut?!?! It had it coming.

[Mistyparrot]

That is a remarkable reaction by Chloe. it shows a high level of understanding of the word "Bad" which is quite an abstract concept. Very smart bird but does she now think that all walnuts are out to get her? Has she simply gone nuts?

 

I always break a small hole in the walnuts I give Misty to make sure he can get into them and also to check that they have not gone bad.

 

Steve n Misty

[chloe's mom]

she still likes her nuts, she hasn't had any more mishaps with another shell now.

[kins2321@yahoo.com]

Steve.... Ha ha ha! Nancy

[Wulfgeist]

I had some walnuts recently and I let Jasper have a whole one to see what he would do. He tossed it around a few times..*bang* onto the seed guard..the other day I was cage cleaning and pulled his playtop tray out and there was the nut, broken open in half but the meat not even touched. Maybe he doesn't like walnuts?