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I have new babies that are about 5-8 days old. I am trying to raise them cricket free. My adults don't eat crickets at all. I have been giving them a formula of strained peaches, pedialyte, and kaytee baby bird powder 3 times a day but have put greens/pellets in the cage every morning. On satuday I reduced the formula to once a day in hopes to get them hungry enough to eat the greens/pellets. I still haven't seen any signs that they are eating the greens etc. Any suggestions??

Why are you giving them the formula if there is no problem? I don't think it's necessary.

Just offer the veggies/pellets. If they don't eat for 2days or more, then think about trying something else.

I have yet to have a clutch who won't take to the veggies/pellets. They do naturally not eat much the first few days of life though, no matter what you offer, (in most cases).

Good luck
Joel R

Thanks Joel!!!

If they truly won't eat the pellets, be careful that they don't get so hungry they start nipping toes and tails.
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TheClassyLizard

That's one of the reasons I hadn't quit the formula completely! So far we haven't had any problems with nips but I will watch really close to try to make sure it doesn't happen!!

I don't know about others but I have yet to get a nip from anything under 3-4 weeks. I'm thinking their jaws/teeth are just to soft & the muscles aren't quite strong enough to do any real damage.

I may be very wrong on that but that's what I've seen.

Joel R