How To Soften Pellets Without Wasting Them
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 10:04 pm
Hello,
I'm trying to convert two of my canaries to eating pellets (Lafeber's). What I'm noticing is that the pellets might be too hard for them to crunch down. That and the habit of hulling their seeds means that they spit out the pellets mostly uneaten before screaming in distress.
Now I've soaked some apple sauce into the pellets and they're receiving the pellets a little more nicely but I'm afraid that this may lead to them expecting wet, apple-flavored, mushy pellets and rejecting normal, dry pellets.
With my job, I don't really have the schedule to change out the food dish every few hours to prevent them from eating damp, spoiled pellets. I don't want them to starve while I'm at work because they're spitting out the dry pellets, but I do want them to have the benefits of a pellet diet.
Any thoughts? Some spoil-free softening trick? Grind up the pellets? Switch back to seed?
I'm trying to convert two of my canaries to eating pellets (Lafeber's). What I'm noticing is that the pellets might be too hard for them to crunch down. That and the habit of hulling their seeds means that they spit out the pellets mostly uneaten before screaming in distress.
Now I've soaked some apple sauce into the pellets and they're receiving the pellets a little more nicely but I'm afraid that this may lead to them expecting wet, apple-flavored, mushy pellets and rejecting normal, dry pellets.
With my job, I don't really have the schedule to change out the food dish every few hours to prevent them from eating damp, spoiled pellets. I don't want them to starve while I'm at work because they're spitting out the dry pellets, but I do want them to have the benefits of a pellet diet.
Any thoughts? Some spoil-free softening trick? Grind up the pellets? Switch back to seed?