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harley

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  1. hi clare, i try to alternate between parsley, broccoli and native plants (all washed well) ie, a different one most days (they get sooo excited !!). I use natural cotton twine to suspend the parsley and they love the stems and leaves (and very nutritious); broccoli (must be very fresh) i just break off a floret and wedge the stem through the cage wire over a perch and they nibble delicately on it all day (: at the mo, they go mad over the leaves of a type of paperbark (melaleuca spp?) tree which i pick up on the way home -- they eat ALL the leaves and shred the bark (this I hang by twine, or by peg) -- it has a wonderful eucalyptus smell when you squash the leaves ... but try a few varieties (very clean/new leaves, washed well, no fungus or nasty stuff on them). Good luck !!oops, forgot to mention, they don't like the small, "prickly" leafed parsley -- they go for the larger leafed continental parsley (:ooops, forgot to mention that the little guys only like the wide-leafed ("continental") parsley not the prickly, smaller, tight-leafed parsley (:ooops, i forgot to mention that the little guys only like the large-leafed "continental" parsley, not the smaller, tight-leafed, parsley