Hi all, just noticing that my young cock Bill has been mainly only eating the millet out of the Budgie mix I have bought him which was not from a supermarket but fresh seed from a pet store...

when I blow the husks out its the oats etc that seem to be left...also if I put a spray of millet in his cage then this only is eaten and he wont eat his mix at all that day....

Is this a seasonal thing where he needs more of something so he eats the seed that provides that... or a growth thing as he must be getting close to a moult??

He is still eating eucalyptus and wattyl when its put in his cage....

Aaron and Bill.

The millet is candy to a budgie so he would rather eat the candy than his real dinner

Switch to standard finch seed ( more variety which he will eat) and add some hulled oats.

Don't forget to give him his greens

Switch to standard finch seed ( more variety which he will eat) and add some hulled oats.

Don't forget to give him his greens

 

Thanks I will try the Finch seed and hulled oats... (what are hulled oats?)

How is his girlfriend going?

Aaron.

The oats are what you said he isnt eating in the mix he currently has

The ones that look like a cross between a coffee bean and a rice grain

 

Porridge is made out of rolled out versions of them

 

 

She's doing well, eating well but is sooky and screams on the odd occasion, but she's growing out of that now