Featherbutt

[asterroc]

<sing-song>
I have a featherbutt sitting on my shoulder!
Featherbutt is preening feathers on her butt
And whacking me in the eye with her butt feathers -
Featherbutt!
</sing-song>

Turns out her yelling oodles after I got her back from the neighbors after Spring Break was only partially missing her budgiefriends, and the other part is wanting to sit on my shoulder and try to break my necklace off of me. Yay, cutie!

I'm also trying another method to getting her to eat good food: I got some pre-made veggie and pasta mush, frozen. I simply thaw out an ice cube-worth and serve 1/4 of it every morning in a sushi tray w/ some seeds sprinkled atop it, and her main food bowl is primarily pellets. This way if she wants seeds she'll hopefully get some of the mush as well, and if she finishes the seeds she has to eat pellets. Or maybe, just maybe, she'll eat some mush. I don't think so yet though. I should start weighing her pellets to see if she's actually eating them, I'm not sure yet.

Comments

[meig.livejournal.com]

Have you tried grinding up the pellets and mixing them with the seed? That's how I got Sparky (aka Phoenix) to start eating pellets.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'll put it on my to-try list. Last night when she finished off her seeds though I saw her cracking a few Harrison's pellets - I have a mix of a bunch of different types. I think I'll try Harrison's only next.