How to convince Senegals to eat pellets

[JaydeParrot]

Took my two Sennies to the vet on tuesday, best avian vet I've ever met, I'd definitely recommend him. Anyways, he reckoned that I'd be doing my birds a favour to transfer them onto Harrisons Pellet (the best brand in UK, appartently), so I've got the one he said was best- high potency fine, the pellets are bout the same size as nyer seeds, so pretty small.

So far the birds haven't shown a great deal of interest. I'm going to spend a month trying them with it anyway. Yesterday I mixed a small amount of honey, a bit of hot water, the pellets and some porridge oats to make them into mini biscuits. One Sennie loved them the other was unimpressed.

Currently I'm just giving mixed fruit and veg in one bowl and pellets with the occasional nut and sunflower seed in the other bowl. If I can't convince them that pellets are ok (i've eaten one, trust me they're better than bran flakes any day) then I guess I'll just have to find something else to make them healthier.

Any ideas how to convince a senegal to eat pellets?

[Wolf]

To be honest about this I would not recommend the high potency, I would use the adult lifetime crumbles instead which is also the one that Harrison's recommends.
If you want your birds to eat this food, then you will need to remove the sunflower seeds from the crumbles. Feed the crumbles and a little veggie and fruit for their meals and them give them a couple of days to begin to eat this food. They will try to hold out for the sunflower or other seeds. Yes they will get a little hungry during the process and if they aren't eating it on the third day give them one meal of the seeds or whatever you have been feeding them and then go back to this diet on day four.

[Pajarita]

Your vet needs to do more research on nutrition because not even Dr. Harrison recommends High Potency as a daily food (if you read the label, you will see it says it should only be used for sick, weakened birds or as a transition food for birds that have been on a real bad diet). They are a bomb of high protein and super high vitamins and minerals.

Personally, I don't listen to vets recommendations on diet as they don't study the subject in any depth. Did this same vet sell you the pellets he recommended?