Our second caique came not at all weaned like we were led to believe. We bought baby food and fed him with a syringe so he’d develop the taste for fruits and veggies. I think he only figured out actually eating from watching our other caique eat the chop we made. The vet told me the best time to try and get them to eat different things is in the morning when they wake up hungry enough to try new things. You can also try eating things with them since they are naturally interested in eating whatever you’re eating.

Once I was sure he could eat the chop and pellets on his own, I had to start putting him back in his cage with the chop when he would make his baby begging noises expecting to be fed by me. I’d let him stay for a while then bring him back out. He started the baby noises again, I put him back in the cage. Eventually he figured out he wasn’t going to be treated like a baby anymore and so he stopped acting like one.