Raised Cob Why isn't my baby Green Cheek Conure Eating much?
OK, so on saturday, I bought a hand raised 8-9 week old Green Cheek Conure. He is absolutely gorgeous, so sweet <3 Yesterday when I took "Ziggy" out for a play, he started begging for food, so I ignored it, because the breeder told me he was eating. Today when It was play time, he looked extremely hungry, and again, begged. I held his beak and he started the feeding response, flapping and squeaking away.
I immediately tried to ring the breeder, to find out whats happening, but because of a big storm last night, his phone line wasnt working. I then went and made Ziggy some roudybush, and he took around 5-9mL via syringe. I gave him another fresh corn cob, as he eats 1 a day! He ran to it straight away. Im really worried he won't eat.. Will he survive off corn and apple until the phone works again? I suppose it is food....
Keep feeding the roudybush?
Yes, keeping feeding him the formula, until you can get the breeder on the line. even at 8 weeks they sometimes need one feeding a day, but some need to be weaned up until 10 weeks. It depends on the GC. It sounds like to me the breeder didn't wean your GC conure naturally. But instead did the old, solid food or they starve way of weaning.
Just make sure ziggy has access to either pellets so he gets all his vitamins or you are feeding him all the vegetables and fruits he needs for a healthy diet. A good seed for more things to snack on. otherwise him just eating apple or corn is not meeting the vitamins he needs
To get him eating or trying solids put him on a towel with you on the ground or you at a desk, and lay the foods out for him. Let him play with them, pick them up and pretend you find them interesting, I recommend wetting the pellets first but otherwise everything else can be put on the towel without anything.
When I am weaning I usually close the the end of the weaning process by only feed them once before bed. Then I eventually move it to every other night, then every 3 days until nothing. They never beg in the day because they are use to eating solids by then. A weaned bird does not beg like that.
