Friday, November 18, 2011

I have a yongone of parrot in my house how do i feed him keep him?

this yongone was felt from a hole in my bulding wher the parent parrot layed the egg he is just tow or one week old he has a red beek with gree feathers pls help me and sugest me some tips can we give him chilly|||if the chick is still this young he needs to be kept warm in a brooder. get a plastic rubber maid container or a glass fish tank, take a heating pad set on low and and place it halfway under the tank. This way you have half of the bottom covered with the heat source the other half not. so that when the chick is too hot he can move to the cooler side or vice versa. fill the bottom with large pine shavings...NOT cedar. about 2 inches deep. cover the pine shavings with a papertowel. place a themometer on the inside wall of your home made brooder and keep it at about 90 degrees until the baby feathers out. once feather out you can keep it at 80 and then when he begins to fledge (learn to fly) you can move him out of there. and into a cage with low perches. drill large 1 inch holes on the top for ventilation of the brooder.





feeding: at 2 weeks should be 4 times per day. its best to just keep the crop full. you need to get a feeding syringe at your local pet shop and chick formula. use hot water to mix the formula. You need a candy themometer to make sure that it is not hotter than 105 and not colder than 101. feed the chick from the left side...your right of the mouth. At first you may not get a feeding response from him (bobbing head) massage the sides of his beak to initiate this response and trickle the formula into his mouth from his left side. You can go faster if he is bobbing is head. You must be very careful. If he is not bobbing you can asperate him and he will die almost instantly. if the formula is too hot you can cause crop burn. if the formula is too low you can cause crop stasis which is an infection that will kill him. take him to a vet and they will be better able to help you. there is alot involved. at any rate he needs to be fed asap im sure. also, nature has it's way of weeding the sick out. the baby bird probably did not fall out of the nest but rather the mother may have kicked him out because he was ill or diseased. birds have an instict of knowing this. Or he may be older than what you think and he was fledging and fell out. good luck|||talk to him sweetly everyday, no rough or harsh sounds, it gets very sensitive and irritable, u have to give a lot of ur time and talk to him, i have mine for a week, i am still working on it now it is eating from my hand!

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