This class discusses Introducing new foods: how to introduce pellets, vegetables, variety and challenge into your birds diet! Do you have a picky eater? Is your bird not sure what to do with the new food you've given? Have you spent hours making chop, just to have your bird turn their beak up at it? This is the course for you!

We will discuss how to introduce new foods to any bird, young or old. We will talk about neophobia, model-rival learning, positive reinforcement, as well as species specific behaviours with new foods.

•Choosing new foods, pellets, veggies etc

•Presentation, variety, challenge

•Neophobia

•Model rival learning

•Contrafreeloading

•Positive Reinforcement

•Species specific behaviours