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Post by rubberducky on Jul 28, 2005 10:06:08 GMT 10
I have a lutino youngster cockatiel.It's about 3 and half mounths old.I hand fed it , it made it to the avery out side. It was eating on its own just fine , it looked healthy acted fine Then for some reason it got a bit sick would not eat .Got real skinny , I brought it in and hand fed it again. It now is a very good looking bird. feathers look great .It's at its age it should be eating , but it wont eat,im feeding once a day with plennty of food in the avery . there are lots of other cockatiels in there to show it how to eat , but it still wont eat HELP! Tony
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Post by lovemytiels on Jul 28, 2005 17:13:42 GMT 10
Hi Tony, I had a similar problem with a h/reared tiel that I did for a friend. It was eating fine when I gave it to him like spouted seeds, veggies, seeds etc but basically stopped eating after that. It would only eat seed when they hand fed it with seed out of the cage but wouldn't eat anything inside the cage. I had to take it back & retrain it to eat seed by itself & basically be a bit tuff with it with not letting it out every time it saw me. Sometimes with h/reared tiels, I believe they pine for their owners & go through what I would call separation anxiety & refusing to eat & if this tiel was fine when you put it in the aviary & is now not eating it sounds like what this little fellow is going through & doesn't want to be separated from you. However, I would recommend that you take it to an avian vet if you can to get a health check to make sure that there is no other reason behind it not eating. Cheers Anna
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Post by rubberducky on Jul 30, 2005 6:10:27 GMT 10
thankx ANNA
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