[BrandieLeigh]

I decided to buy some jars of baby food to give our QP because he doesn't really like any of the fresh foods I've been trying with him. I got some organic sweet potatoes, organic chicken and pasta, and organic oatmeal with peaches, pears, and apples. The first time I just used a plastic baby spoon to get him to try the sweet potatoes, and then I decided to mix things up a little. We are working on converting from seed to pellet so anything I can do to make pellet seem like a wonderful treat to eat I'm willing to do! Today I got the chicken and pasta baby food and heated it up in a little pink bowl I use for especially yummy things. He already knows that when the pink and brown polka doted bowl comes out he's gonna get something yummy! I then mixed in a few different types of pellets. I'm trying to get him to like any pellet in case I ever need him to have something different. He really liked the concoction and when I went take the bowl away he grabbed ahold of it with his beak as if to say, excuse me, I wasn't done yet. I also sprinkled a very FEW seeds on top of it and mixed those in as well, just so he would find little treats as he ate. I also put a nutriberrie at the bottom for a nice desert.

So I guess my question is. Is baby food OK? I figured if they can eat people food and baby people eat baby food then they can eat baby food. He's only 9 weeks old and only been off of hand feeding for a couple of weeks now so the consistancy of baby food is familiar to him and he really seems to like it that way. I have a food procesor so I can make fresh baby food on my own, but there are few good veggies to choose from in stores right now. Please let me know if this is something I shouldn't be doing. I only give this mix to him once a day. He gets 15 minutes of seed in the moring, 15 minutes in the afternoon, and I give him this at night while we are eatting supper.

[Jen_and_spiggy]

Not 100% sure on baby food but i think its fine . When you find out that its ok maybe mix the pellets with the baby food that could work to help him like pellets

[BrandieLeigh]

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. I mix in pellets with the baby food and he gets vegetables and pellets. And the little booger acts like he's starving to death when I bring the seed out but he's eating plenty of pellets now too. I'm working on the conversion method just so he gets used to the idea of not eating seed slowly. But he seems to be doing pretty well. He'll eat it till the seed comes out that is! I'm using Andie's mom's method of seed conversion that's pinned here and I've been able to cut a couple of days off here and there because of the progress.

[jobo2mi]

Mixing the pellets in the baby food sounds great. He's eating it and that the important thing!! Anything we can do to 'trick' them into eating pellets at first, whatever works!! Once he's used to getting the pellets, cut down on the baby food, make it more pellets, until he'll eat the pellets on their own. Sounds like you are doing good with your little green chicken.

[moonchild1970]

yeah and they also make organic baby food which is great. I think it has less sodium.

[Andie's Mom]

Just make sure that you check the salt content in the baby food. Don't want to be giving him too much salt...Also watch for garlic and onion in it as well.

[Katie28]

I buy baby food all the time for the fids. I actually just bought 12 of them yeasterday when they came on sale for 30 cents a jar. Read the ingredients, because sometimes they add wierd things to the food. I buy the ones that have only the actual fruit/veggie in it. (ie. the carrot one that only has carrots in it, or the strawberry bannana that only has strawberries and bannanas in it.) Alot of them add salt or some sugar, which I wouldn't buy.

[kalipso2]

i buy baby food for Cricket all the time... but you do have to look at the sodium content. look for really low or no sodium... which usually means no meat or pasta baby foods.

i don't mix pellets with my baby food but for breakfast Cricket will get a little warm oatmeal with a fruit baby food mixed in and in the evening he'll get a veggie baby food.

i first started using the baby food as a way to bond with Cricket when he was a baby. we would sit together and i'd feed it to him off the spoon... like he would have been getting hand fed at the breeder. as he got older the gulping down the food stopped and he wanted to eat by himself out of the dish. now i just feed it to him on special occasions.

he loves applesauce, pear, squash and green beans!

[Casey's Mom]

Yep, we buy just the veggie baby foods. Like everyone else said watch the extras that are added in.. we always make sure it's just the veggie + water.

[moonchild1970]

Just make sure that you check the salt content in the baby food. Don't want to be giving him too much salt...Also watch for garlic and onion in it as well.

Oh yeah forgot to say check for those, as well as the sodium content. Thanks Andies mom!

[BrandieLeigh]

Thanks for all the tips! I will definitely check the ingredients. But I already bought the Organic, so hopefully the salt and ingredients will be ok.