Natalia, I reconise your predicament as I have been through the same
experience.
Feeding King Parrots and Crimson Rosellas was my problem, I realised that
the birds were sitting around my house all day waiting to be fed and not
going out to forage in their natural way. Also a Black Wallaby was attracted
to the seed tray [which was on the ground] and we had the great pleasure of
seeing that wallaby produce a baby with head poking out of the pouch, and
eventually coming out of the pouch to feed on bits of grass and the prolific
amounts of weeds growing around my place. Unfortunately, some weekslater I
found 'my' wallaby dead not far from the water source. I know it was the
same one because of a marking on its ear. During the 'creamation' that I was
forced to do because I didn't want foxes and wild dogs eating her, I had to
open the body up to make it burn quicker [you have no idea how long and how
much fuel it takes to burn a wallaby body] and inside found the intestines
jammed with undigested seeds and other green matter. Since then I have given
the parrots once or twice weekly very small feeds well above the height
wallabies can reach.
I miss seeing them but know they are still around because they eat all my
garden plants!!
Val
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