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12-Apr-08, 01:28 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Eastern subs Melbourne Gender:  | | | Help needed with fussy Olive
Since I got my F Olive yearling at the beginning of this year she has had about 3 feeds of mouse rolled in bird feathers following a one month hunger strike after purchase. The last 6 weeks she must have realised she was being tricked and refused even this. Today I have given her gourmet quail from the chicken shop which she loved (just yesterday she refused a mouse and a rat).
Should I just feed her quail bits now and try rodents later?
Are they safe and nourishing?
Should I try baby chicks, and does anyone know where to get these (deaded) in Melbourne?
Thanks
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12-Apr-08, 01:49 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Somewhere near Brisbane | | | | Olives do seem to love birds, try her with a dead day old chicken and then a small rat immediately after. Olives seem to have a very strong feeding response so she should eat the rat with no problems.
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12-Apr-08, 01:51 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Brisbane | | | | Finches did the trick for my friends (stubborn feeder )Olive
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12-Apr-08, 01:55 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Australia Gender: | | | | Totally reptiles sell day old chickens. |
12-Apr-08, 02:10 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Eastern subs Melbourne Gender: | | | | Thanks. I have no idea where to get finches, and I have heard of Olives eating them readily. Totally Reptiles are low in stock but I will get out there. Rosanna isn't far from where I live.
My male Olive is the best eater of all my snakes, she (at least up to now) has been the worst.
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13-Apr-08, 09:57 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: typical melbourne Gender: | | | | i used to get day old chick from a pet shop in sommerville give them a call on 59775011 |
13-Apr-08, 10:08 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: newcastle Age/Gender: 17 | | | | llasher keep trying her on quails and as boa said give her a rat straight after the bird do this for a while she may just switch to rats but you can also try live fuzzie rats scented with quail thats may work
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13-Apr-08, 10:12 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Eastern subs Melbourne Gender: | | | | Thanks, I would like to get her eating rodents because they are cheap and easy to find. I will get a few day olds and try scenting the rat with one or with quail, and feeding it to her straight after the bird. I am so pleased she is eating something as I thought she would starve to death or a least be a "bad doer" for ever as she is still so small compared to the M I got at the same shop.
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13-Apr-08, 09:55 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-07 Gender: | | | | Try Day old chicks, then drop a rat into some chicken soup!!!
It works... | |
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