Do your birds put everything in the water first before eating?
T-Bird, unless he is eating fruit or something he really is crazy about like almonds or figgy-newton, dips his pellets in the water, every single pellet,,is this normal?
He also LOVES me to soak a tablespoon of pellets in water and let him eat them.
Could this be a sign of old age or something? I hope it isnt' a sign of old age.
Lori

I'm no expert, but my bird does this with things that get soggy, too. He loves to toss cheerios in his water bowl and then slurp them up.

this is normal if you notice the water getting way to dirty before you have time to change it

i would buy one of those small stainless steel dishes and put it right next to the food that way he wont have to drink durty water all day lol

but he still has a place to dunk his food lol

Pico dunked his pellets when I first started giving him them Now he dosen't dunk. I think this is a normal thing some birds do. Don't worry.

Verde doesn't dunk his food in the water but he loves to play in it and fish his toys out of a bowl of water after I drop them in there(it's a game of ours)...lol.

Hello, my name is Ringo and I am a dunker

Ringo has always been a dunker. It is funny to watch him at night because he gets lazy and instead of walking to his water bowl with a pellet he does the splits with one foot on the water bowl and one on the pellet bowl.

Silly quakers!

Yup, Dodger is a dunker aw well I tried to discourage this because of the yucky water it creates by putting the water dish on one side of the cage and the food dish on the other side.Dodger's answer to this problem was to just take a bunch of pellets to the water dish instead of dunking just one.He would drop a bunch of them into the dish at once So now he has a small 'dunking' dish to go with his food and a regular dish for drinking water

My macaws have a water bottle for this problem...Sebastion's answer is to hold the pellet sideways in his beak, push the lever with the tip of his beak and let the water run over the pellet while its still in his beak Its actually a bigger mess them a dirty water dish because he gets water EVERYWHERE along with on the pellet, but a wqter dish to him is just a challenge to figure out how to dump it

Yep, Casey is a dunker too! It seems pretty normal as a lot of birds do it... you can switch to a water bottle but then they tend to try to stuff the pellets inside to get them wet... I find it easier to change the water a few times a day.

Peanut is also a dunker... His water dish is on the opposite side of the cage from his food... but he still manages to dunk

Cherry and Rocky are both major dunkers...I made a video about it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHixps-3yE

It's funny. Just today Verde starting dunking his daily morning chex in his water bowl. It's cute. Like he is dunking a donut in milk or coffee.

yeah Ness does this
she will dunk her dried mango,
pellets, anything hard like dry biccies
and things like that haha

In one cage, I find floating food in the water dish daily. Always pellets or pieces of toy, never seeds.

The other bird, Mumbles, dunks food in water but never leaves it. He sometimes puts his foot in the water, and then licks it. I have no clue why.

At first I thought this was because the food was salty or spicy, but I bought some Zupreem cajun pellets and Mumbles does not dunk those. Maybe it is a texture thing.