fedding HELP!

[ParakeetLover92]

I have a bird book and it says parakeets (which i have one) will not eat anything out of thier food bowl they are pickey. Well tonight we are having cooked noddles and corn on the cob and i was goin to give her some plain noddles and some corn off the cob how do i do that cuase when i put like fruit and stuff in her food bowl she never eats it i put a grape in the bar of her cage where her perch is and she eat it some of it, anyways what do i do! i want to get her to eat good foods but i'm having troble lots. What do i do! I hope someone can help me out here. ( by the way this is my first parakeet EVER and first bird ever anyway.)
Alicia

[Monica]

Please calm down! It may take a while to get her converted to a better diet, but don't stress yourself over it!

You can try putting food in a clean dish, in her regular dish, attached to the bars (via a clip of some sort, or a twisty tie) hanging or even weaved through, cut it into tiny bits, leave it whole, etc. Some birds enjoy eating corn off the cob, so you can try cutting off 1/2 inch of corn on the cob and giving that to her. Try to be creative in the various ways you give her food!

[Hillarious]

Yep, it just takes time. Give your budgie fresh veggies every day (you can try hanging wet spinach on a perch) but be sure to remove them after about 3 hours so they dont go bad in there. But yes it takes time, my budgies still dont eat veggies and I have had them awhile.

Also I would not reccomend giving you bird grapes too often. My vet told me no more than half a grape once a week. I am not sure but I think it may have something to do with chemicals many farmers put on their grapes to keep birds away. I read an article about birds dropping dead from grapes and personally I have just stayed away from then ever since! I will try to find an article on it to post here.

[Hillarious]

Ok well I know this was a sorf of older post but I found some important info about birds and grapes. Hope this helps.

"What's wrong with grapes?
Feed one grape to a cockatiel and that's the equivalent of feeding 460 grapes to a 120-pound human.5

Though grapes furnish alpha-hydroxy acids that peel dead cells from skin (which is why AHAs are used in acne creams), anthro-cyanidins (an antioxidant), and phenolic compounds that protect against LDL (bad) cholesterol, they provide little nutritional value in return for that 16 percent sugar content.6

Political arguments aside, there are plenty of reasons not to purchase table grapes for your bird.7 The simple sugars in grapes provide generally empty calories that leave little room for the benefits of complex carbohydrates. Foods rich in complex carbohydrates (starches) typically contain more nutrients than sugary foods, and (unlike the simple sugars) starches don't create an environment conducive to the growth of opportunistic infections like Candida albicans — a common (and sometimes chronic) parrot illness.

That's because starches serve as the first line of defense against many infectious diseases. They mimic cell surface "addresses" and act as decoys which confuse pathogens into binding to them. When pathogens bind to decoys instead of cells they are removed from the body via natural body processes — which means your bird avoids infection.

Bear in mind that sugar intake is also directly related to biological aging. Sugar raises the toxic levels of substances which eventually interfere with functioning of the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems. Play it safe, if you absolutely insist on feeding grapes: feed them in season and give your bird only the seeds. Grape seeds contain pycnogenol — a proanthocyanidin (a type of bioßavonoid) and a powerful antioxidant. "