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<\/a>Barley and Peaches take a cautious look<\/p><\/div>\n
These two are always the bravest and were the first to have a little peck.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Honey also had a cautious peck<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Toffee gave her alarm sound when she first saw them but after the other girls had a peck she had a peck too<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>I added some familiar apple as encouragement and the apple was much preferred<\/p><\/div>\n
Toffee as usual had been brooding in the nest box but came out to see what the fuss was about.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Topaz tried a peck of banana<\/p><\/div>\n
All the girls took one peck then did a lot of scraping their beaks on the patio and didn’t return to have any more. They clearly didn’t like the texture.<\/p>\n
Topaz was funniest though. She had one big peck then scraped her beak on the patio in a frenzy. She then shook her head vigorously then scraped her beak, shook her head, scraped her beak and shook her head again. She then glared at me as if to ask what on earth I was trying to do to her.<\/p>\n
For a moment I thought she was having an allergic reaction. She was not a happy girl and took herself back to the nest box in disgust.<\/p>\n
At the end of the afternoon I removed the offending bits of banana. They hadn’t been pecked again and the apple was all gone.<\/p>\n
I think the message is clear. My girls do NOT like banana!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few days ago we had a couple of over ripe bananas that had been forgotten and I thought \u00a0that I would see if the girls would like them. I knew that my previous big girls didn’t like them but … Continue reading