Night feeding when you are not home?

[DanaandPod]

If you are not home in the evenings to give dinner to your parrot, how or what do you suggest putting in their food cup during the day to eat?

[Wolf]

Hi Dana, it is good to hear from you and Pod. It has been a while.
I can't say that I know for sure as I have never been faced with this type of problem. I would need to consider how long before his dinner time that I would have to leave and how much late it would be if I waited until I got back to give him his dinner.
Without this information I would probably bury their seed ration under some fresh produce just before I left.

[liz]

What time are you home?

[Pajarita]

Once or twice a year I have to take a trip that would prevent me from been home at their dinner time and what I do is put the seeds UNDER the gloop. It doesn't really work very well because they are smart and would dig them out as soon as they start peeping out through the gloop but, as it happens so very seldom, it doesn't really worry me. Years ago, when I was working full time and commuting, my husband fed them dinner so, if the question was meant for every day during the winter, I suggest you get somebody to come over UNLESS you can find a feeder that would work with a timer but, of course, the timer will mean that the bird is alone all day long and goes to sleep without seeing anybody which is not good.