enough smilies to signify my delight?lol
Well yes it took about 6 months but little lorenzo now recognizes and craves HARRISONS.
Yes the most expensive and boring but it has the best formula...so they say.
So healthy diet it is, along with his fresh fruit/veggies and in between some seeds and munchies.
Orginally I bought Harrisons and he didnt want to look at them. refused to eat them.
Then I started offering them to him as treats with training. he actually took them and would eat them.
When offered as a meal he refused them again.
I looked into other brands of pellets since harrisons is well known to be bland and boring to birds. In the Uk there is a brand called OPTIBIRD. everyone i spoke to in the uk said their parrots were on that and loving it. sounded great. almost the same price as harrisons but thought to try it since it was crumple technology and all and it was fruity flavoured, different sizes etc. the ones that arrived for conures were a little big so when offered as a meal or treat, lorenzo would liturally just drop them to the ground. I thought they smelled amazing, Id have eaten them myself haha. plus they had little whiteseeds mixed in. really great food, i could see why other birds go nuts for it. but yea lorenzo didnt want to know of it.
eventually gave it to my friends at the petstore to their african gray. went back to seeds
some time passed and I decided to give it another go. this time i bought the optibird in a smaller size, though maybe they are more edible being the same size are harrisons. another 10£ spent and same story he wasnt interested. inbetween i still had some harrisons left and would sneak one or 2 as treats.
for the life of me i couldnt get him to eat anything but his seed mix.
I didn't want to spend more money again on more pellets so was on the verge of giving up when i tried mixing the optibird with the harrisons and low and behold...the little bugger started picking out the harrisons, left everything else but was actually eating them as a meal.this was one of the mornings he was left in his cage a little bit longer so i guess he got really hungry.
throughout the day there would be less and less in the bowl.he actually started to recognize it as food. ended up giving him harrisons straight and he now eats them no problem! he'll happily look forward to dinner even if they do look boring and tasteless.
can't get over it. i think he just wanted to make me waste my money and time when all along he did actually like harrisons. from one day to the next he just started eating them hehehe. ordered a fresh pack now that i know what i can buy.
ok enough of my delight, i just wanted to get that out
now I feel better.
but seriously this and the aviator harness are/were my biggests obsticles with parrot ownership. still need to conquer the harness now...
Subject: Pellet conversion completed! 
Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:43 pm
