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Have only offered my gouldians Lebanese cucumber a handful of times with little interest ( would probs help if i did a solid week of offering it to them )

who here feeds it to their gouldians? how do you present it to them? halve and then quarter them? or cut into little round rings?

cheers

misso

Usually just cut of circles off it...but mine are in with RF Parrot finches...

I offer it daily to my breeding aviaries containing Gouldians but by & large they aren't too fussed on it. Last year I had one hen which ate it keenly when she had young but she was the exception apart from a very occasional pick by a couple of others they are just not interested. If the aviaries only had Gouldians I definitely wouldn't bother with it.
I offer semi-circles skewed up near perch height on a wire hook. I cucumber does 10 aviaries so each piece is roughly 50mm in diameter.

Mine only peck at it if it has green seed sprinkled on it, but longtails love it.

Tiaris wrote:I offer it daily to my breeding aviaries containing Gouldians but by & large they aren't too fussed on it. Last year I had one hen which ate it keenly when she had young but she was the exception apart from a very occasional pick by a couple of others they are just not interested. If the aviaries only had Gouldians I definitely wouldn't bother with it.
I offer semi-circles skewed up near perch height on a wire hook. I cucumber does 10 aviaries so each piece is roughly 50mm in diameter.

thanks for that tiaris, i found it strange that they were not that keen, cause my gouldians hop into almost anything i put in their aviaries.

misso

Or you can borrow some of my zebs and they should follow them down to it.

My Goouldians don't eat Lebanese Cucumber
Red Face and Tri Colureds gorge on it.
I just cut in half (ie long ways) and sit in a long dish.

Haven't kept any Gouldians yet that really like there greens.

Not much interest from my gouldians in leb cucumber, they certainly like corn on the cob though and will eat nearly any kind of seeding grass. Cubans, Stars and Parsons all love leb cucumber

Misso wrote:thanks for that tiaris, i found it strange that they were not that keen, cause my gouldians hop into almost anything i put in their aviaries.

I tried some last night, the zebs were into it like a flash, the gouldians were largely disinterested and just kept munching on the cuttlebone.

I also noticed the gouldians prefer hard stuff, they're always munching on the cuttlebone, the perches, cracking seeds etc. whereas the zebs seem to go more for the soft stuff.