Food Mixes?

[Wolf]

If you can't see what he picks out to eat, you could try putting the food into little piles next to each other on a saucer and see what he picks. I would do this first thing in the morning before he gets anything else to eat, it is when he will be the hungriest. I would also not use the seeds in this process, in fact I would hold off on giving him the seeds until his evening feeding.

When you feed him in the evening use his seed and a mix of the thing that he didn't choose. The next morning again use small piles of the foods that he didn't choose and then feed him that evening with a mix of seed and the food that he has chosen. New foods in the morning and the foods that are chosen in the evening. Try this for a while.

Let us know what he chooses.

[GreenWing]

You can go to the grocery store and create your own mix. Check out this link for more info:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10971

and a Wikipedia page on Cockatiel diet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatiel_(aviculture)

[william.k.o]

Ok. Thank you all of you who answered

[Pajarita]

Don't worry too much about him not eating fruits, they hardly ever do. Get yourself some brown rice, wheat, barley and oats (bird stores usually sell oats for people who breed canaries so you would just have to search for the barley and the wheat). Cook everything al dente and mix it with cooked corn, peas, carrots (diced), some small white beans (make sure they are thoroughly cooked), mote and broccoli. He will eat this mix (all of mine do). And give him a leafy green (like lettuce, celery and carrot tops, chicory, escarole, etc) daily. This should be given for breakfast and all day picking and, in the evening, when the sun is setting, give him one heaping tablespoon of bird seed (but one with very little sunflower seeds -you can use a good canary seed mix and add some millet and safflower to it).