She won't touch the thing. I've had her for a over a year, and thus far she has maybe taken two bites. I do occasionally change the cuttle bone (because she poops on it) and I have changed the flavor and the color, still she is uninterested. It is always there in addition to a mineral block which she also will not eat. (She hasn't ever touched the mineral block ever.)

She is an incredibly finicky eater and won't eat pellets either. She is on a seed diet although she does eat fresh fruits and vegs which I give her everyday. (She's a parrotlet and I've read seeds aren't quite as bad for them. There is nothing I can do to make her eat pellets. I tried for 9 months without success.)

Any suggestions for how to improve her diet?

Is there anyway I can improve her nutrition?

Se will eat the pellets if you only give her half seed and half pellets.She will get hungry enough. Then you can slowly cut back te seed until she is eating all pellets and the fruit and vegetables. That is how I switched my 2 budgies over and they just passed at age 11 years.

Give her a small branch of a fruit tree; plum or apple is fine. Cockatoos and parrots usually enjoy tearing them up. Wash the cuttlebone. You can always buy vitamin drops for her water. Another idea is put the seed on soaked cotton wool in a small dish. Birds usually love the sprouts.

My birds will have nothing to do with their cuttlefish bone either so I took them out and offer them egg with the shell about once a week. My birds would not eat pellets either and I gradually mixed the pellets in with the seeds and overtime they started eating it now I give them about 90% pellets to 10% seeds and they eat the pellets and the seeds. Just give her time she will come around.

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