My birds won't eat any veggies or fruits. To I take away their seed for a few hours and replace it with shredded carrots, apples, and stuff like that?? Or what?

Never take away the food they are used to eating a budgie will starve to death because they don't know if the new food is poison or not. The best way to teach them to eat variety of food is to incorporate it with what they are eating already.

 

You can take away their food for the nighttime sleep and then whey they wake up give them veggies/fruit, seed and pellets mixed together. Leave for a couple hours and then replace with regular diet. They will probably eat around the veggie/fruit for the first few weeks and even months that is okay persistent pays off.

 

It took Pretty 3-4 months to eat veggies and then once he did he loved it and taught Merlin to eat a variety.

 

In our FAQ we have a good article about introducing a variety of foods Click here to Read Article

thats a good idea

Try first with some finesliced greens and grated carrot. Mix the budgie seed through it.

You can also try vegetable "skewers", sometimes they think it is a toy, use those bamboo skewers, slice your vegetables and a little bit of fruit very thin and secure it within the cage, both sides. But please don't take away their regular food, you cannot force them to eat the healthy foods that they are unfamiliar with.

I was successful in switching my budgies' diet by using two dishes for a while. I wanted to switch them from a total seed diet to a pelleted diet supplemented with sprouted seed. I started off ply placing the pellets in a dish high up in the cage. They would look in the high dish before looking into the lower dish. Of course for the first few weeks, they wasted all of the pellets in the higher dish, but eventually they started nibbling at them. Once I saw them begin to eat the pellets, I slowly began reducing the amount of seed I gave them. Over a period of a few months I totally removed the seed altogether and their primary diet is pellets.

 

I do give them millet and sprouted seeds- which they love.