I discovered this quite by accident but have now tried it on all three of my food dipper extraordinaires. And it worked. If you notice, most bird cages have the food and water bowl pretty close together. All it takes is for a bird to grab some food, walk sideways and he’s at the water bowl. This makes it extremely easy for them to go back and forth to dip.
One day my Macaws’ water holder broke. So I went to the store and got one of those after-market food bowls. You know the kind that that attach through the wire and are florescent green. Well it just so happened I couldn’t place it where the old water bowl was. I had to place it quite a bit higher in her cage. And then something extraordinary happened. The food dipping stopped. It suddenly it dawned on me she wasn’t easily able to walk over to the water bowl with food in her mouth. She had to climb and work for it. So long story short I tried it with my other two birds. It worked! It even worked with my worst food dipper Pokey the Green Cheek Conure. Long gone are the days of having to change water five times a day. Now I’m down to just once and twice on hot days.
If you’ve got a bad food dipper, give it a try and let me know your results.
