[MissileMe]

A healthy bird should eat about 20% of its body weight. Now keep in mind that 100grams of dry pellets is not equivalent to a 100 grams of iceberg lettuce.

First of all, before your bird gets addicted to sweet stuff, you need to cut down on it. It's unnatural for birds to be addicted to sugary stuff. In the wild they eat unripened fruits and vegetables. These things are usually bitter.

Secondly the most important vitamin is A.

Thirdly Vitamin C is not important to birds. They can produce it in their body.

All that said, try feeding yam, squash, orange/green colored pumpkin. It is high in Vitamin A. Birds usually love this stuff. Steam it then cut it up and feed it.

If they eat that, the next step is to mash the food above and start dicing different vegetables and mix it into the mash. This way they can't pick and choose so easily and the taste of the food above will mask the vegetables.

This is just the starting point. Start adding more food types. Chunky, mashed, as is, etc etc.

On top of all the vegetables start sprinkling some pellets that are naturally flavored (ie Hagens Tropican) without the coloring. Gradually start giving them harrisons, TOPS, Foundation, etc etc. The organic ones usually taste bad (trust me, I've munched on most of them and it's a fact, organic pellets are quite bland) so don't expect them to just start munching on them without any type of introduction via fruity flavored pellets. The initiation is VERY VERY important. You don't want to mess that up.

I hope that helps.

One last thing, water bottles are for rodents. It's good to get them used to water bottles in case you travel by car, but the best is to put a water cup into their cage along with the water bottle.