by Kathleen » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:34 am
As been said already, this is not an adequate diet for a healthy bird.
You will have to transition your bird most likely to eat properly. Since the bird has been getting treats all of the time, it probably won't be interested in the pellets or in vegetables but I don't know your bird's history.
When I had a budgie, all it would eat was seeds. It absolutely refused everything else.
But I was sneaky. I tricked into eating other things. Unfortunately, the bird didn't live long enough or maybe I would have had success with pellets and even more vegetables, but at the very end, I could offer the budgie a bowl of pieces of carrot, broccoli and string bean and it would eat them.
I chopped up the pieces of vegetables as finely as I could (seriously, just kept chopping and chopping) until they were about the size of the seeds that I was giving the budgie (remember, these are small, millet spray kind of seeds) and the vegetables were a little damp. I mixed some seeds into the bowl to entice the bird and he would go and try to pick out the seeds but he ate pieces of vegetable too. Due to water cohesion, the vegetable pieces stuck a little bit to the seeds and to his beak, and he found out he liked the vegetables. Overtime, I would keep creating this mix and lower the amount of seeds each time. If he seemed to lose interest, I would add a little more seeds to entice him again. A little bit of vegetables is better than all seeds.
You can modify this concept a little bit to transition your Senegal to a healthy diet. In the long run, your parrot needs to be eating properly.