Nuts Please Don't Laugh

[Tina]

I bought some walnuts in there shells thinking they would be a thing that parrots would die for. but poppy wont touch them. she eats them in with her mix.


I even opened one and left it on her play stand in its shell but she just screamed at it.


do they eat the in the wild?


Am i doing something wrong?


would almonds be a better choice?

 

[Scarlett]

haha, bless. If she`s never seen one before in the shell she just may not know what to do with it, try cracking it in half or even crushing it.


She`s probably just scared and doesn`t know what to do.


It`s sort of like providing you with sliced pineapple rings every day then suddenly handing you a pineapple and saying 'well eat it then'!!


Some birds do like Almonds too, it`s trial and error but I bet the Walnuts will be a hit given time.

 

[Kerstin]

Tina,


had same here in beginning with budge and baby as well...


I broke them into halfs still in shell and had one in front of them - think it was cause they never had one before


Now they would die for it..i just have to say who wants a nut and baby is dancing on her perch


But I bought the ones without shell now from scarletts as you can freeze them cause its getting harder now to get them in shell

 

[Bob]

Yeah as the others say she probably just didn't know what to do with them

 

[Ann-Marie]

I'm sure she will take to them in time. We go through a period of "do I don't I" till they touch anything new - it can take weeks with these sometimes xx

 

[Kat]

Jenny is just the same, she likes her food provided "ready to eat", we made a game of nut cracking at christmas, she was more interested in the nutcrackers themselves