ACEPHONECHIC
04-19-2013, 03:48 PM
Hi I am posting this in the hope some other parrot owners can enlighten me.
Merlin my female Indian Ringneck who lives with Kosh an Alexandrine Male has started recently sitting in her seed dish and flicking the seed out. I have tried all kinds of things to stop her distracting does not work goes straight back to doing it again. Mixing the fruit with the seed. First time she did it I thought it was a nesting thing and we just laughed even though the seed flew across the room from their large seed dish in the cage. Then after she had done it a few times it has become annoying as I feel she spoils the food for Kosh, once flicked out on the floor it is all wasted. I take alot of time in preparing their food nice for them for her to soil it. She works her way around the dishes as well so does not confine it to just one.
Any ideas why she does this and is there any way i can stop her wasting all their food.
Merlin my female Indian Ringneck who lives with Kosh an Alexandrine Male has started recently sitting in her seed dish and flicking the seed out. I have tried all kinds of things to stop her distracting does not work goes straight back to doing it again. Mixing the fruit with the seed. First time she did it I thought it was a nesting thing and we just laughed even though the seed flew across the room from their large seed dish in the cage. Then after she had done it a few times it has become annoying as I feel she spoils the food for Kosh, once flicked out on the floor it is all wasted. I take alot of time in preparing their food nice for them for her to soil it. She works her way around the dishes as well so does not confine it to just one.
Any ideas why she does this and is there any way i can stop her wasting all their food.