My Keet Screeches and Won't Eat

User Question
Hi Lisa, Just a quick question i could not find an answer to on your

parakeet f.a.q page.

Our 2year old budgie has started screeching a lot recently and although he

looks healthy enough we dont know why he is suddenly doing this, one clue

he only wants to eat when we hold his food bowl up to him otherwise he

attacks the bowl until it is nearly empty and 10 minutes after we clean

his cage it is completely scattered with the new food. He eats premium

seed with all the trimmings and has been on this since we bought him,

other wise he seems healthy enough .

we also have another budgie who is in a separate cage and fed on the same

food,he is ok. any help would be appreciated .thanks,

p.s. we tried changing the bowl,it didn,t help.

Lisa's Answer
Parakeets each have their own personalities. If the keets are in separate cages it could also be that one cage is in a draft or baking in the sunlight while the other is not. Parakeets normally screech when something is really wrong. Other people who have written in with screeching parakeets ended up discovering their keets were overheated, for example, and that putting a fan in the room got things back to normal.

Remember, seeds are not a full, healthy diet. Keets in the wild don't just eat seed. They eat a wide variety of foods. It could be that your keet is desperate for some lettuce or tomato or other healthy fruits and vegetables. Try to offer other things as well, to give a more rounded diet to your keet. Always have daily fresh water, too.

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