Dribbling fron the crop needle seemed to work but I'm a tad impatient - I finished off by shouving it down it's throat! I'll try some fruit rather than the loriket mix after work today (yes I'm not woking right now). Hopefully it will develop a taste for the fruit and have a go it'self. Thanks for your help
Greg
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GregH
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Well I've had this baby for 2 weeks now and he's still not eating by himself and from what I can figure it's pure lazyness - mine! I got my maid to feed it with a spoon the other day and it did eat but it took 20 minutes! A squirt with a crop syringe is so much easier except it really hates it and fights me opening it's beak. Some days he consumes as much finger and blood as fruit and lorikeet rearing mix! I just hope it figures out what the dish of fruit salad is soon.
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What are you hoping to do with the bird after it is independent ?
Is it to be released or too soon to tell if it can be yet >
Is it to be released or too soon to tell if it can be yet >
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
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If I can find somone to take it off my hands then it's their problem but release is the goal but only if it can independanly eat. Still too soon to know but there is a bird meeting next Saturday and you never know I might unload all my fruit eaters if I'm lucky and if I'm unlucky I'll end up on the news!
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It will eventually start trying the fruit salad...the faster you want it to the slower it will seem. 
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The difference between Genius and Stupidity is, Genius has it’s limits
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Little bastard just about takes my finger off now when I try to feed it - don't think I could cope with a larger parrot. I've cut back to 1-2 feeds per day and he is losing condition but I'm hoping starvation will provide the incentive to get him to eat by himself. Unfortunately the food dish remains untouched but I make a point of changing it twice a day as I wouldn't like to get him this far and have him die of food poisoning. I'm wondering if I placed him in with the hanging parrots and bulbul if he'd learn by example but then he's on his own as I wouldn't easily catch him for crop needling.
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Could he go into a smaller cage with another older bird for a few weeks ? Still able to catch him and maybe learning how to eat ...
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
David Brent
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