An Acquired Taste?

[DizzyBlue]

Brain boggling over here and how things must differ in taste or could it be texture... Thinking must be taste....

Just been having to share a fresh banana

So three of the large flock like fresh can't get enough of mine.
All 6 love dried.
3 would throw a fresh banana out like you'd offered them poison and have a hissy fit meltdown that it came to their side of the room.

I was pondering if it was perhaps a not liking sticky stuff on their feet.... But it would seem that isn't the case as I am watching them grab other things that are just as sticky if not more so.

Mine all hate coconut pieces but the banana chips they all eat have coconut oil coating (but sugar free) to

Three of my large flock have been here all their lives three have not. So was trying to work out about preference vs learned behaviour.... It's definitely preference going on over here watching the three that have always been here.

5 like apple, 4 like red grapes 2 only eat green grapes, everyone loves pomegranate, one likes black currents, 4 eat strawberries, 2 eat raspberries, 1 likes cherry tomatoes. To confuse things further they all adore broccoli which I detest / hate can't stand the smell of (buy it just for them regardless). So it's not learned behaviour from me.... I would throw up if I ate that plant of the devil!!



Ok so from this pondering I know that to get them to try things new I have to keep offering until it's tested and either shunned or accepted but it's beginning to look like regardless they each have their own taste bud preferences.


but regardless of watching they all still get offered a huge variety not just their individual wants.

 

[dianaT]

Same here they all get a variety in the dishes and eat which they prefer on that day! What they don't like seems to get flicked on the walls/curtains or indeed anywhere.

 

[Wendy Wolfe]

It seems to be a complete chance thing for Dora, and something that was OK last week isn't this week. Good job we eat a lot of different veg, today Dora decided she wanted raw cauliflower! Another first.

 

[MJGB - MikeJenGaryBeckyBoo]

Yeah, here too. Some days carrots are the devil and the next day the best thing ever, raw or cooked. Gary loved raw sprouts as a youngster, and one day instead of a nut I offered one of those. The resulting "sprout face" he gave me, will always be synonymous with the ultimate look of disgust and betrayal. I never realised a birds face could have THAT much expression!

 

[plumsmum]

I just think I get away light/easy! Shush don't tell them!

 

[Wendy Wolfe]

Today's greens. Plus green chillie seeds as a side. And she really did eat it!

 

[DizzyBlue]

The banana saga continues it would seem!
Just been scoffing one myself the birds have already roosted upon demand in this house.
So munching banana I walked past Alfie the BFA who hates fresh banana. Oooooo comes his usual sound for what you got. So I said its banana you don't like it. Ooooo from under the covers in the gloom. Fine I offered the banana knowing he would say yuck move away at a rapid rate of speed. But oh no what a shock. Apparently fresh banana can be eaten in the dark when balanced between the cage bars.
I listen to him making yummy noises and munching the banana. Hmmm turns the lights on.... he looks at it like I fed him rat poison and shot off to the other side of the cage. Fine! Turns lights off waited a few minutes said "ooooo what dis dan" (Alfie speak lol) two minutes later in the dark he's munching on it again!
So conclusion is.... fresh bananas are only safe to eat in the dark

 

[DizzyBlue]

He's been here for years! Came as a rehome, fresh bananas offered regularly thrown around, screamed at, nervous breakdowns, hiding from them the lot but you can eat them in the dark safely WTF!!!

 

[Lozhinge]

The banana saga continues it would seem!
Just been scoffing one myself the birds have already roosted upon demand in this house.
So munching banana I walked past Alfie the BFA who hates fresh banana. Oooooo comes his usual sound for what you got. So I said its banana you don't like it. Ooooo from under the covers in the gloom. Fine I offered the banana knowing he would say yuck move away at a rapid rate of speed. But oh no what a shock. Apparently fresh banana can be eaten in the dark when balanced between the cage bars.
I listen to him making yummy noises and munching the banana. Hmmm turns the lights on.... he looks at it like I fed him rat poison and shot off to the other side of the cage. Fine! Turns lights off waited a few minutes said "ooooo what dis dan" (Alfie speak lol) two minutes later in the dark he's munching on it again!
So conclusion is.... fresh bananas are only safe to eat in the dark

I have similar going on with Chocobo.

Definite interest in what I'm eating, I tell her "It's banana, you don't like it", she insists and then spits it out in disgust. Each and every time, except once, I recall. No idea why it was OK on that one occasion!