Breaking Ernie of the All-Seed Diet Ongoing-Thread

[bparakeets]

Quite a few years. *facepalm* I wish I would have started him earlier but I didn't think to. However, I'm still trying. You should start your budgies on vegetables as early as you can.

[bparakeets]

I squeezed some juice from grapes into his water dish. Nutrition-wise, would this help him?

[StarlingWings]

I would say probably not. Grape juice is high in sugar and not high enough in any vitamins to compensate

If you had like carrot juice or something to occasionally put in his dish, that would probably be more beneficial.

[bparakeets]

Okay, thanks! Trying to get him to eat carrots, but he's still pretty wary of them.

[RavensGryf]

I think the carrot juice is a good idea to try. Kind of hard to juice a carrot, but you only need a little. Also experiment with cutting smaller, larger, one large chunk piece, maybe hanging kabob style, etc. Sorry if you've already tried that, I didn't read the entire thread . My late Twigs who was a wild raised pet store budgie even took to veggies after a while. One day he just decided out of the blue to try it and found he liked it. Luckily all my birds took right to Harrison's pellets.