feeding a budgie

My budgie is fed with a continuous delivery feeder. I like this because I
only have to add food every week of so. However, it seems like he just
picks out the millet seed and doesn't touch the others. Would he eat more
of a variety of seed if I fed him a daily ration in a cup? My theory is
that then he would have to eat the other sorts of seed as well or go hungry.

Thanks,

Charles P. Lamb

Attempting to get a bird to try new foods by "eat this or starve" is never a
good idea, I have been given to understand. A cup feeder might be a good
idea, since he'll have all the seeds (include his millet, so he'll have
something!) in front of him. They're stubborn little guys -- getting them to
try something new takes huge amounts of time and patience. I'm trying to get
mine to eat fruit and green stuff, but it is an uphill battle. One thing you
can try, which they seem to love, is go out to your lawn and pull up a patch
of grass that has gone to seed. Make sure no pesticides or fertilizers or
anything else inimical to bird life has been used on it. Stick the grass
(with its earth clod) into some sort of container and put it in the bird's
cage. Don't know how nutritious this is, but at least it is something new in
their diet and gets across the idea that all new things are not inedible.
Good luck!

"Charles P Lamb" <clamb RemoveThis @acm.org> wrote in message
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> My budgie is fed with a continuous delivery feeder. I like this because I
> only have to add food every week of so. However, it seems like he just
> picks out the millet seed and doesn't touch the others. Would he eat more
> of a variety of seed if I fed him a daily ration in a cup? My theory is
> that then he would have to eat the other sorts of seed as well or go
> hungry.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles P. Lamb
>
>