I got my two little society finches a little over 3 weeks ago. They are wonderful, very happy and healthy
But as some of you know from my other post...I kept trying to see if there was any singing...nope, nothing...I have 2 pretty little girls Also, there have been NO eggs..nada...zip...neither one has laid a single egg in the 3 weeks I've had them. I'm starting to think they are very young little girls. In fact one seemed a little unsure of her flying at first...could fly ok but wasn't too accurate with her landings. After a few days she got much better and both got much stronger from flying around the large cage (32x20x40). Now they fly in circles, hover and all sorts of flying. (from reading other posts I learned to look at their legs whch are also very young looking) So I think my two young girls are also birdie virgins.
Since I got them I've been trying to get them to eat eggfood. Everyone says their birds love eggfood! That they can't get enough of it! Mine? They turned their little beaks up at it and wouldn't touch the stuff.
I tried plain dry eggfood (purchased). I tried plain hard boiled eggs. I tried mixing the two. I tried adding friut. I tried adding veggies. Again...nada...they wouldn't go near the stuff but would just eye it from a branch. I tried putting it in a finger cup. I tried putting it on a plate on the cage floor. I tried putting it next to their other food. I tried sprinkling their regular food on it. I tried taking all other food away...they STILL wouldn't touch the eggfood.Then yesterday we had a breakthrough! After adding dry eggfood together with hard boiled egg and adding some parsley...and after it sitting on the cage floor on a small plate for 3 hours...they decided it was ok to step on it.
I sat with them for the full 3 hours. I know they didn't eat any...they just stepped on it then went back to their perch.
I don't know what possessed me to try what I did today, but since I had put my hard boiled eggs in the refrigerator, I wanted to make sure the eggfood wasn't too cold for them. Yesterday it was room temp when they stepped on it. I know it was room temp because it had set there for 3 hours. So to warm it up a tad today I nuked it in the microwave...for all of 5 sec. That's it, just 5 sec was all it took to warm it up to a comfortable warm and not cold temp.
I put it on the floor of the cage and they jumped on it and started gobbling away!!!
So what I want to know is...Who spoiled my two young little ladies into thinking that their eggfood had to be homemade, cooked, blended, served on a platter and heated up WARM before they would eat it? LOL
(it's been in the cage for 3 hours again now. I'm about to remove it because I don't want it to spoil but they have been nibbling away at it here and there the whole time.)
