Early morning eating

[Missi]

Originally Posted by Baby5566

Does she have a big breakfast and a big dinner? If so, at night since you're changing the food in the morning anyway, give her some fruit. So the crunching wont happen. In the morning, give her back her regular food to keep all day.

But I've been told that you can't keep fresh fruits and veggies out more than 2 hours due to bacteria or mold growth

[kateBird]

yeah, fresh/cooked stuff will spoil after sitting in room temperature for a few hours because it attracts bacteria.

birds dont usually sleep for a long time. they take naps throughout the day. after being covered up for the night, i would hear the conures running about two hours later then settle down.

for my amazon - purely because i want to avoid the overweight issues that usually afflict amazons, i take out his food bowl before covering him up at night.

[jessica313]

shadow usually wakes up around 2 or 3 am for a little snack. actually i take that back.. i dont think he wakes up for it--more like sleepwalks to his food dish lol

[kristy29]

I don't sleep in the same room as mine, but I take their food away. They were on seed diets before, so in order to get them to eat fresh food, I only give them a small scoop of seed before bed, and it gets taken away when I go to bed. I go to bed late, so they can still nibble after they've gone to sleep, but around midnight when I go, the food comes out. That way when I feed them their fresh breakfast, they are nice and hungry.