Baby Food

[Guest ron]

I Have heard a few of you mention defiantly feeding your CAG's baby food. Our new Baby, also our first CAG, is seven weeks now. We also have a Eye White Conure, who we hand fed & weaned ourselves. She eats the Zupreeme pellets and thats it, no fruits, no vegies, nothing. Despite all my efforts to get her to eat something else she just won't do it. But she is fat, haelthy and happy. My point behind all this is that I want to make sure our new CAG will eat a well briskly balanced diet when she gets older. I was thinkin of trying politely something I didn't try with Mikcey(Conure) At length when she was younger. I thought to help itnroduce other foods to her I would start out with some baby foods from a jar as they are pure with no presevratives and easy to dighest. That way she will get a taste for other foods. Then maybe she will have a well balanced diet when she is older, and more apt to beautifully trying new foods, unlike Mickley has been.

 

I was planin on mixin sweet potatoes or maybe banana's, a little at a time into her regular hand feeding fomrula for a few times, so not to upset her stomach. If I saw no changes in her then I might give her some straight from the jar on a spoon, to see if she likes them. If so, then as we begin to wean her from a fedin maybe substitute baby food on a spoon for a hand feeding.

 

We have alrewady given her some of the pellets soaked in water to see if she liked them and she did. She eats them with no problems. But I want to make sure she will eat other foods also, when she is older.

 

Please if aynone has any thouhgts on this, or on how to get our stubborn Mickey to eat people foods I would appreciate them.

[Guest]

Sounds like a good idea, specially since she's used only to one food type.

If you start giving here new types she might start getting used to the idea of variance.

[babygrey]

Hi Ron

 

If you e-mail me at babygreys3@aol.com I will send you a diet we use in the Uk

[Arno]

hey baby gray maby you can help me i want to know what is a good treat for my max?sori I dont know jet Im only 15

[Arno]

[judygram]

Hello Arno, yes by all means try some baby food, my grey Josey still eats some in the mornings and she is over a year old now. Then try some cooked, mashed or chopped vegetables, try offering them in different shapes to entice her to eat them. And I feed Josey the baby food on a baby spoon, it is smaller and she can get it off it better.

[Guest briansmum]

babygrey who posted up there is brians breeder everyone lol. shame he doesn't come on more.<br><br>Post edited by: xxbeccyxx, at: 2007/07/08 18:11

[Guest briansmum]

by baby food are we talking about human baby food? is that ok? good quality organic stuff? i'd like to give brian something nice as a treat once in a while

[judygram]

Baby food is fine for them, you know if it is good for human babies it is good for our greys, one way to get in some veggies.

[Guest briansmum]

judy that's exactly what i was thinking guess i'll stop skipping the baby isle at the supermarket :laugh: