Pajarita wrote:Actually, grays do need more protein than other species. All the larger African species do. My grays get nuts with just a little bit of seeds for dinner - for example, half a macadamia, one medium size cashew, one almond and some seeds (striped sunflowers -maybe 3 or 4, some safflower -maybe 4 or 5, and grass seeds like millet and such -maybe a level teaspoonful). Mind you, these quantities are not exact, I don't even count the nuts or measure the seeds, I just kind of eye it and add or remove until the whole thing looks like enough and then a tiny bit more to fill up their crop.
For your little ones, I would use either slivers or small pieces of almonds, walnuts, etc, sunflowers or safflowers as treats.
The little ones actually wouldn't even eat a nut unless they were really hungry, There are some nuts in their seed mix too and they just get left behind.