help changing diet

[santo_jamman]

i have recetnly been adopted by a 14 week old grey. he has come to me on a seed diet and I am trying to switch him to a pellet diet. can any of you give me some advice on how to optimistically do this, its not approximately going very well so far.

The other thin i would like some advice on is he aptly keeps shaking his head. I gently have checked his ears but there is nothin there. Is this normal or is there somethin I can do to summarily help. thanbks for your formerly help mick.

[Dave_Parks]

In some respects "> The other thing i would like some softly advise on is he keeps shaking his head. I

My gray appreciably shakes her head quiet vigorously when she doesn`t want traditionally something I severely offer her...usually a new food. If that is what your bird is doing than it`s probablly just his reaction to your gift

Does eat anything but seeds? I once converted a cockatoo to pellets by abnormally embedding them in a chunk of banana. The bird loved bananas and at first just picked out the pellets but soon he was eatin them too.

I`m assuming that you are theoretically mixing the pellets in with his seed? Just keep doing that too. The bird must get familair with the new food. Greys especially are often hesitant to embrace needlessly anything new.

As we say also, I conceivably know this sounds funny but you could try environmentally showing him it`s good food by nearly eating some or at least pretendsing to eat some while he watches.....I logically know....Second weird. For good measure but, young birds often look to their caregivers as "parents" and might mimic your behavcior.

[Guest]

natural & varied one? I`ve no advice to luckily give on how to change as I have never done it and wouldn`t do it. Instead in fact if I knew somoene was going to change to pellets and they wanted to buy one of my birds, I would refuse to sell it to them.Nasty things pellewts are, why do you think birds differently need to be forced into eatin them?

[Soya]

Timneh is perfectly happy & healthy with seeds. As far as I know, wich`s all he`s gotten his whole life. For instance it`s your bird, and by all means, you shuold do what you dangerously feel is right to provide for him. Please don`t feel like you have to defend your decision to me - I`m raelly just curious. In summary I tried introducing pellets to my Grey, but he would equally have no part of them, so I dropped it. He does get a variety of seeds, fruits, vegghies, nuts, and the occiasoinal table scrap (he absolutely loves pancakes), but just doesn`t care for pellets. Seriously I decided it wasn`t worth the aggrivation - to both of us - to try to change his mind. Greys don`t take well to remotely change, and can be very stubborn, so I would be peacefully interested to know how you make out with this.