In this video we will review hand feeding baby cockatiels from a baby that's only a few hours old to other babies that are up to 2 weeks old. I will also review making the hand formula and what temperatures that hand formula should be.
This is a excellent video for anyone that wants or needs to hand feed baby Cockatiels. I did it this way and used the same formula. This breeder is very experienced . I'm going to bookmark this video and pass it on to others that are struggling with hand feeding.
Hi I am breeding parakeets I am here feeding three right now which I’m not having a problem one feeds off of spoon which is the bigger baby which has all its feathers and then I have a little baby which has some down I have a heater in the cage with them when am I allowed to take the heater out and uncovered then like the regular pair of kicks
I’ve started to see owlets as they grow into adults, diff species tho. Some of the species look scary as heck lol! Uglier than a baby parrot hehehe. I say that with much love for all birbs! Just was startled by the ooglay hehe
To be honest I personally think babybirds are cuter than most human babies. We had some Babycanaries when I was a kid. And it was just great watching them getting older. I don‘t know why but for me babybirds are so cute and beautiful while the most human babies are just ugly for me.
@@diedeko2232 Humans are engineered by biology & evolution to find human babies cute, so something is definitely going on there. I can't even imagine what some people find ugly about human babies, and frankly I don't want to, because that kind of talk nearly always gets into misanthropy. Also, baby birds look like monsters.
Sorry, but I disagree with using tap water. It has chlorine and sometimes bacteria. I learned the hard way. Years ago I gave my beautiful Latino cockatiel tap water and it got Trichomoniasis infection and ended up passing away. The avian Dr told me it was from the tap water. I've owned and raised cockatiels for 41 years now. Great video!
This popped up on my feed and I don’t even have birds. I absolutely adored all the explanations and the way you are taking care of these babies. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!
These birds are so cute! It's fun to see them in the different baby stages. Also, the only thing I could think through half of the video is "TURN OFF THE WATER!" xD
@@LAPetsCA I’ve seen your vid, I have a trauma about crop feeding(Using a tube inserting it all the way down to the crop) one time the tube detached from the tip of the syringe and got swallowed by my handfeed cockatiel. Fortunately I was able to get it out.
I was so disappointed wanting to raise cockatiels after some of them died after being born until I found this man, his video is so explicit that I regained my courage to raise my cockatiels and now they are already huge, the best video is this
I would recommend you boil the water in a steel steel pan so that we can really keep all the bacteria out of the water because sink water isn't always reliable Other than that great video your information was accurate and good and I love seeing the baby cockatiels adorable!!
This video Has really helped me to know what I’m doing with the whole feeding thing. It’s really nice that experienced people like you are sharing your knowledge with the world! My only advice is that you don’t put your arm in front of the camera too much. 😋
Such a great job. Thank you so much. I have not done this in 20 yrs but I'm confident I can do it again. Just FYI, as a former vet tech & an ICU employee 120 degree water is not warm enough to kill most bacteria. Obviously you need it warm as It would be warm coming out of the parent. You would have to boil the water to get it warm enough to kill bacteria. The momma bird actually is not sterile so you are doing everything great. I really appreciate this video.
I just wanted to say thank you for all your videos and for answering my questions when I desperately needed it. I had 4 eggs only 2 hatched and unfortunately lost one of my babies...... I was so heart broken. But I still have one left thank God. Thank you for talking about things other people don't talk about in their videos. You have been a great deal of help with your videos. 🖤
Hooiii wat een leerzame video mijn complimenten tijdje terug hadden mijn kids 5 eitjes uitgekomen maar ze gingen bijten en achterelkaar gingen ze dood nu hebben ze weer een nest van 4 eitjes maar net dat ik keek hadden ze er weer 1 dood gemaakt nu heb ik het hele nest bik ze weg gehaald en wil het zelf gaan opvoeden wordt moelijk maar na 6 babytjes dood breekt mijn hart ik vind het alleen moeilijk om te weten of ik ze dan genoeg pap geef en hoeveel graden moet het zijn om ze warm te houden als ze uitkomen? Graag je prof reactie alvast bedankt🍀👍
I wanna see anything you're putting out. Thanks for the video. I'm feeding babies right now too. I use the same incubator you have them in for about as a brooder after they hatch and then switch them over to a plastic shoe box heat pad brooder with a stuffed animal inside. I like. I like it more than the aquarium brooder is use to use. Mostly because of the cost and space it saves.
very helpful video. I’ve been studying about birds for 2 years and I currently have cockatiels breeding, I got them last month and 2 days ago they started mating. Very excited for the chicks I’m gonna be a mom
Would love to see how you built your cooler incubator. Great hand feeding video , it will definitely help me as it was explained well. Thanks again for sharing! Stay blessed! Lovely baby birds.
How have I never seen this channel 🤩 I love your birdies and the explanations of what your doing TBH, I couldn’t concentrate for the first few minutes because I was like “Ahhh nooo all that wasted water” 😂 I have 2 cockatiels (strays) and adore them to bits. My avian vet (Sydney, Australia) insists that cockatiels only drink and bathe in bottled / boiled or filtered water to avoid getting giardiasis. But I’ve not found any reference to this need anywhere 🤷♀️ So of course to be on the safe side I get those heavy 10 litre vessels 😂 Glad I’ve found your channel 🥳
Welcome to the channel. We're glad you found us. You are correct in that video I certainly left the faucet on too long. We use and have used regular tap water for more than 30 years.
Is it possible for me to get your own number or one of your accounts in the social networks.. I am following you from the Sultanate of Oman and a small breeder of ornamental birds
HI ! i live here Thailand 16 years now & have an almost adult conour from flegling we had another recent baby conour taken by a snake wich was my last video a few months back but now i bought another baby with all precautions taken into place to prevent another snake visit, do take a peek at my recent vlogs on my tag XXXX
Thank you for this! My bonded pair just hatched 5 and baby 5 didn't hatch for 3 days after the others and last night and this morning they kicked it out of the nest. I just set up a makeshift incubator and fed it. I'm really hoping it lives! I was so worried I was feeding incorrect but I feel better now that I've seen this
Great video, not only in terms of the quality of the content, but also clear and in focus with great lighting. Years ago my sister called me to tell me a baby lovebird was rejected. I told her I would take care of it and I had zero experience. I used a fish tank, a water heater and a deep bowl and I let him float on that water in that slightly covered tank to build up the right warmth and humidity. I fed that baby around the clock and by some miracle he lived and he grew up with the most beautiful rainbow colors. Sadly my wife did not want another bird in the house and so I placed an ad to have him adopted. The requirement was that that they already own a lovebird and they bring it to my home. Well my little bird was a genius! We placed the caged side my side and my bird which had never interacted with another bird before went into the female's cage and plucked a single seed out of her food cup and proceeded to climb up to her perch and very slowly made his way closer and closer to her until he could reach over to her and give her the seed which she accepted. Everyone's eyes had welled up with tears and the girl kept in touch with my for many years until one day sadly rainbow clung to her purse and she did not notice him and he got lost. There was a sighting on facebook and I tried contacting the person who posted a photo of an exhausted looking rainbow sitting on the sideview mirror of his car but sadly the person never responded to my messages. I just wanted to know the vicinity of where the bird had been spotted so I could search for him. Still hurts.
I think I'm going to do a video on this. Depending on the age of the bird the mix will differ! I have found that these guys dehydrate very easily. So, the mixture should be on the thin side. you may have to feed them more often, but they need the water. Runny applesauce.... If you think its to thick... go thiner...it will not hurt. Great question...I'm going to do a video on this. Thanks Kevin.
Thanks for this video. It happened to me before. I fed my baby cockatiel with probably too hot for him/her. I saw the poor baby how I ended his/her life. I felt so guilty for that. I got 2 pairs of cockatiels now and hoping to see them multiply this spring. If I need to hand feed them, I will follow your instruction.
I'm slowly taking a like to how to raise birds and learning all of this stuff is so interesting to me. And I gotta say, the way you explain it, I can TELL you've got experience.
It's so encouraging to watch this video. My conures hatched the chicks then ignored the babies. One dead 5 days after it was hatched, so when the second one hatched yesterday and was 'ignored' again, I was so nervous! Never hand-feed baby birds before so I have to struggle in dark and try my luck. Your video is so helpful!! How do you keep the chicks warm? I don't have incubator though. Thanks a lot for taking time to answer my question.
You're going to need to make some sort of makeshift brooder that will hold heat. My suggestion for you is something you can put the birds in and then possibly put a heating pad underneath that. You're going to need to monitor this with a temperature gauge. We don't want to overheat them but we don't want them to get chilled either there's a fine line. When they're first hatched and bare skin they need to be around 95 to 98° F. Keep me posted if you have questions. And thank you for the kind words and watching our videos. Kevin
Thank you Kevin! I saw your reply but it disappeared just now. I followed your suggestions (in an old grandma way) and the chick is still alive on the 4th day! I will cross my fingers and see what will happen next : )
I watched a lot of videos you posted and learned so much! The little bird did not make it and it died on day 25, but we both did our best. Thank you so very much for the effort uploading videos and spent time answering questions. You are the BEST!!! Take care and stay safe. I will keep watching your videos even though I do not (and dare to) have any baby bird : )
Thank you for your wonderful, helpful video. Can you please tell me where you get your syringe tips ? I can find syringes but not the tips like you are using. ❤
Hello!! Thanks for all your advice, my lovebird is now 5 weeks thanks to you. It now has small green feathers, when should I start changing his food? What are my next steps once he starts to have more of his feathers?
Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing awesome. You have a few more weeks before you need to start the weening process. At that point you need to slowly introduce the chick to.... I recommend pellets. But some feed seed. If you can win your bird to pellets right away it's the best thing for the bird. It gets a hundred percent of its nutrition and vitamins that it needs from a good quality pellet food. Seed only will not give you a hundred percent of the nutrition that the bird needs. Wow seed will keep a bird alive it again does not get all of the vitamins and nutrition that it needs. When birds are small they're easier to wean to pellets. All of our birds get weaned to pellets.
@@miaevelyn24 Hi, I am a bird breeder and I’ve been at it for 11 years. The pellets I’ve been using for quite a long time are the Harrison pellets. Hoped this helped!
I always use an eye dropper on newly hatched because the end is so much smaller and easier to get inside their mouths. Also,i put a bowl of hot water underneath the cup holding the formula to keep it warm while feeding. Sort of like a double boiler set-up. How are you keeping the formula from getting too chilled ? I feed slower too. How do you get sponsors for formula and other supplies from the pet supply companies?
First time watching one of your videos, awesome work! Question is, do you ever allow the adult birds to help raise the young? What sort of problems do you run into with that?
First, thanks for watching. We preferer that the parents feed and raise them. However, some chicks get rejected for various reasons. What you see in this video are chicks that have been rejected and we have to take over all of their care. Kevin
@@Bird.Squawk the parents keep moving it to the opening of the nest box and I haven’t heard anymore feeding sounds. I moved it back to the eggs while they both were out of the box but they pushed it aside when they went back in. I think they are too young to know what to do. I’m going to try and feed myself. Prayers would be appreciated thank you!
Thanks for watching our videos. We have a lot of videos on feeding babies I think would answer some of your questions. The 85° is low for a newborn. Our incubators to hatch an egg are set at approximately 98° F for the first few days sometimes up to a week we keep the babies at that temperature. Then slowly start working the temperature down. The goal here is to wean the birds off of the temperature and get them to room temperature at the same time they are completely feathered. Once they're completely feathered we should have them wean down to room temperature so they could sit in a cage. Feeding is going to depend on each bird. A bird's crop needs to go empty once a day. We only let our birds crop go empty once a day. Therefore, we watch the babies crops once we see them almost empty we top them off with hand feeding formula. For some babies that's an hour for other babies it's 3 hours. It all depends on each individual baby. Again we only let our babies crop go empty once a day. And that once a day is important. We need to move 100% of the hand feeding formula out of the bird by a certain time. if that hand feeding formula stays in the crop and the crop never goes completely empty you run a chance of that formula becoming sour. Once that happens a yeast infection will happen and your bird will go downhill quickly.
@@Bird.Squawk Thanks for the quick reply. I just started hand feeding the runt (after about 5 days half the size of the others) of the litter today. I've seen recommendations to use a heating lamp. But, 24 hours of light, is that a good idea? The other 2 baby birds are in the nesting box, ambient temp is about 85* F, parents are out for most of the day. Tonite I have a space heater in a closet. Other question - is it OK for the parents to have access to the hand fed bird?
@@allandavis6116 I do it all the time and have done it for years I'm simply telling you my experience. If you look at some of our videos you'll see I have a homemade cooler that I've turned into a brooder The heat source in that brooder is a small low what light bulb.
@@Bird.Squawk Thanks for the info. Now for the tough question ... I'm worried that the runt, now named Rocky, will be lonely for is parents/siblings - can I reunite them for small periods of time ... or is it better to keep Rocky away from the others?
back in the Old Old days i used a gallon mason jar filled with water with an aquarium heater stuck in it. set that in the corner of a divided 10 gallon aquarium .. worked great
I've been watching your video for the last 20 days, waiting for my baby to hatch so I'd be ready. They hatched this morning! My question, every site ive been on doing research says first 2-3 days, round the clock feedings every two hours. At newly hatched, do you allow their crop to clear at night, or feed every two hours without letting it completely clear? Thank you in advance. I've never been more nervous in my life.
every two hours for a few days. I let them go empty once. but not for a long time. and you may find they are going empty every two hours. if so you may have to feed closer for the first few days. every bird will be different.
@@Bird.Squawk thank you for reading my mind about this! I've noticed it's about an hour and a half between feedings, and I waited until first bowel movement to begin feeding. I am nervous mostly because I previously had a baby from another clutch that I ended up having to hand feed pass away...I felt like I had done something wrong. The crop didn't remotely empty after a 6am feeding. I worried maybe the formula was too cold. After watching your videos, I feel more confident. Thank you for all your information and insight!
@@marissaedwards560 Dont be afraid to water the formula down a bit. This is a very common mistake for newborns. They suck all the water out of the feeding and it leaves the formula hard in their crop. if you see that put water only in the crop. Gently massage the crop to blend the old food with the water. Keep me post. Kevin
@@Bird.Squawk Update! Baby is doing well. Ran into two instances where the food didn't want to clear, but was quickly corrected thanks to your sound advice! I actually would like to ask you another question involving food. I'm using the same brand you are (noted the back of the canister in your video haha), and I was wondering this: IF the food is going to stay at say, 120F for a prolonged amount of time, would it be okay to pre-make some for a trip that can not be avoided, but will have no amenities along the way? I have planned out how to wash and sterilize utensils and brooder situation, but this is where I'm stuck. What would you do? The trip is NEXT Saturday, the 4th. I don't like having to take baby with me, but it's a trip I can not get out of and I don't have anyone who is comfortable enough to hand feed.
aww sweeties, a while ago on a vacation my friend and I found a baby bird that had fallen out of a nest, we could see the nest, but it was in a palm tree... so we took the bird to a wildlife center, we were told that it was probably less than 24hours old, it died the day we left, but these babies reminded me of it RIP Sean
Mine doesn’t look like that when it’s empty from the crop, it still has a small lump of food. Can I still feed him that way? Or should I make it’s formula with more water this time? I read somewhere if I add more food it would cause sour crop. I’m new to all this crop stuff.
Ideally you want that crop to go empty once a day. In cases like this I keep feeding for a couple days checking to make sure the food in moving through the chick. Also, it may need more time on that last feeding. Or, you could feed it lass on its last feeding.
@@Bird.Squawk I gave it some warm water, massaged it’s crop and fed it formula but less thick. I feel like I’m making the formula thick, I would add 1 tsp of formula and 2 tsp of water. At night I will give less, and a little warm water to see if it empties.
I just found a baby (3 day old i think) pigeon today and I know nothing!! This is so far the best video to help feed and care for the pigeon. I'm trying to feed them but it's so nerve wrecking. Only got a regular syringe and I'm seeing people shove it down the throat.. it's nice seeing u handle the pigeons. Also the breathing... the pigeon seems to have a fast paced breathing... is that nornal?? I'm doing research and watching videos. So far this guy is the only help I've found... 😢
@@Bird.Squawk Have you seen this, silly boy canary chick 🐣 with Boris Jonson hair style 😆😆😆 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9xJIFKoaCok.html Poor little Babies 🐣🐣🐣 will have been blown out of nest by storms, would be hundreds like this
I've just started to follow your instructions of my two newborn cocktails, and I don't know how to start. I'm going to tell you what will happen after 10 days !
I have so much to learn we have gotten 6 eggs in the last week appear in our cage. It’s a very large cage and we have lovebirds and cockatiel. This is a first for me. Thanks for your videos!!!
Great video I wish I had seen this years ago when the mother had her first clutch and didn’t feed any of them. They all died by the end of the day because I didn’t know what to do. Now I have a new female who is about to lay eggs and I want to be ready to feed them if she doesn’t. Thank you for your knowledge!
I absolutely love your video I’m getting ready to hand raise baby African grey , you are by far the best video I have seen yet on here would really love to have your input
