dunking pellets?

[coral]

my parrot dunks his pellets in his water dish when he eats he climbs accrossed the cage and to the other side just to dunk one piece and repeats until he is done eating its so funny. do any of your birds do that?

[Roger P]

Merlin does this with with almost everything he eats. I change his water regularly any way, but it is almost always "soup" by then .

I think that most Maroon Bellied and Green Cheek Conures tend to do this.

[captwest]

I've replyed a couple of times to this in the past, an i've found that using a water bottle, is a must when feeding a pelleted diet, not that you can't give them something to bath in , but i switched my birds over to the bottle.

[CheekyandMalolo]

My conures do this, but not very much, at the end of the day we have only 3-4 little 'floaties' in there, so it's not much of an issue, I actually thought they'd just pood in it, it was doing my head in cause there's no perches above the water bowl. They do however take every single pellet up onto a particular perch to eat it up there, same with saltanas. Little nutters.

[bmsweb]

Our Breeding pair would do this all the time and the baby that we kept (Belle) learned idea of dunking all on her own! Future babies we had seem to all do this. I know its a common thing that Green Cheek Conures do.

Interestingly the parents would only dunk pellets and Belle will dunk even veggies!

[kaylayuh]

My Green Cheek Conure will dunk his food, too. Mostly he dunks dried fruits and vegetables, but he'll dunk seeds, pellets and other food, too.

My budgies do not dunk their food. Although, PigPen does kick the food out of her dish and it ends up in the food dish.

[Nevermore]

My GCC does this too. He seems to enjoy it, and likes his food better after dunking it...so I really don't see a reason to make him NOT do it. I just change his water every day as usual. A little soup wont hurt him.

[Sarah&Rico]

My senegal does this with bread or sometimes other food. It's very strange but cute too lol.

[kaylayuh]

My GCC does this too. He seems to enjoy it, and likes his food better after dunking it...so I really don't see a reason to make him NOT do it. I just change his water every day as usual. A little soup wont hurt him.

How many times do you change his water? I change my GCC's water five or six times because I can't stand to see cloudy, soupy water!

[Nevermore]

Once in the morning before I go to work. And if its really bad, I"ll change it when I"m home in the evening. But otherwise....he doesn't poo in it. Its just pellets. I don't see a problem.

During the weekend, if I hear/see him starting to have a bath in his food bowl I'll change the water (before he bathes and after).