Baby Timneh

[bebo08]

Hi ...

 

i just got my female baby Timneh ... she is 2.5 months..

 

but i dont know she doesn't seem to be eating from her food... its the same food i am using for Keemo my 7 months old TAG....

 

is there a special diet for baby greys? a special kind of food maybe ...

 

i checked with the pet store he said that i should feed her Cockatiel seeds ... but she doesn't seem to be eating it as well...

 

please help ....

[Carolyn]

Do you no if your baby was fully weaned when you got her, and what was she being fed by the breeder?

 

You dont say what you are feeding your 7 month old, if you are feeding pellets, I would soak a few in warm water to make them into a soft mush and offer them to her to see if she likes it that way.

 

There are many experienced people here that will offer you advise with this, and I am sure they will be along to help you very soon.

 

Carolyn & Mika

[judygram]

Your baby should have been fully weaned before you brought it home but a few will regress and I would talk to your breeder to see if this is the case.

 

You can offer the same foods you give Keemo but the pellets may have to be soaked in something first to make them more palatible, something like apple juice works well for this.

[bebo08]

well now .. as we speak ... she seems to be eating from the food dish ,,,, i put for her a mix of large parrot food ... cockatiel seeds ... and veggies ...

 

she is eating only the small seeds i guess ...

 

at what age do you think she will start eating fruits and vegetables?

[judygram]

She should be eating them now, you may have to try different ways of preparing them, raw, cooked,mashed, chopped and so forth to find which way she prefers them, I would cut way back on the seeds.

[casper]

When ever I have brought a new baby home, I have kept it on the same diet the breeder had it on even If I didnt think it was best just until the baby gets settled in.

My last baby was unable to crack seed, he had been fed wet seed and his diet was terrible!

After a few weeks I introduced moist pellets then gradually when he accepted these he moved on to the dry ones.

He now has a good balanced diet of mainly pellets, some seed and fruits veggies and pulses.

 

Did the pet store tell you what your baby had been eating? Did you see him actually eating in the store?

[BaxtersMom]

The others have given very good advice. I've never had a baby grey. Mine were all adults when they came to me and not on very good diets. It seems most parrots really like seeds like mine did and for 2 of them thier only diet was seeds. It was hard to get them to want to eat other foods so I what I did was cut down on the seeds and offer them other foods like pellets or fruits and veggies. They were stubborn but over a gradual period of time they are eating much healtheir.

 

In the mornings if I only put in pellets and fruits or veggies they will just sit there and look at the food but if I put just a pinch of seeds in with it, they will eat the seeds first but go on to eating the other foods I have offered. It kind of jump starts them.

 

You say your baby is 2.5 months old. That is a young one and I am just wondering if it still needs the baby formula for awhile? Others will know more about that but maybe your baby is not fully weened and needs more baby food in it's diet, too.

 

It can be a hard process to change the birds diet but be persistant. As Casper said I would keep it on the same diet and gradually change it. And find out if your grey still needs some more hand feeding since it is so young and maybe shouldn't be fully weaned yet.