help my bird eat
I have had my bird for 27 years and have tried repeatedly over the 27 years to get him to eat pellets instead of the typical parrot food you find in the pet store. He is a most difficult bird when it comes to this. He wants to eat sunflower seeds and has literally refused to eat for it 3 days at a time at which point I usually give in and give him sunflower seeds along with some vegetables several times a week he likes sweet potatoes, string beans,peas, corn, honeydew, watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapple, coconut, blueberries,, the small roasted peppers in most bags of parrot food, and most of all he loves bananas. I have tried Nutri berries Harrison’s and several other brands of pellets sure. It has been like throwing money down the drain. Recently I started feeding him Foster & Smith premium blend and discovery that he will eat the microscopically small pellets contained in that food it. It is imperative then I correct his diet I think it is suffering the consequences of nutritionally incomplete diet. At present he is getting Foster’s and Smith with the sunflower seeds removed 50% and Harrison 50%. Out of 25 pellets the next day I had 24 and 3/4 pellets left. He has however been nibbling on his kale strawberries grapes blueberry dragon fruit parsley and red peppers from his other Bowl. He has been eating it’s diet for approximately two weeks. I have not given in giving him anything he should not be eating but I am becoming concerned because I know this is not a nutritionally complete diet either. He is slightly arthritic and has mild congestive heart failure and is taking medication for both. Does that suggestion none of which you have worked. I desperately need help and finding something with adequate nutrition that he will eat. I wake me say grateful for any recommendations or advice you can give me. My birds life is on the line. He is only 35. I have had him for 27 of this year’s and he was abandoned in front of a pet store and nobody has any idea as to what the first several years of his life we’re like. SMS his being 35 years old play stay by me and confirmed by the vet as a most likely age. Please help I am desperate