Wow.. thank you for the kind words! I do love these little guys, but I really enjoy sharing all of the years experience with everyone ... I'm having a lot of fun... Thank you for watching and sharing our videos.... Kevin.
I have noticed beginners tend to over feed because they feel the babies are still hungry because they keep begging for food even through they are full. These chicks would let you feed them till they practically pop. They will feed them so much it cant even stand without falling over.
This will be different depending on the age of the bird. And each individual bird. When I'm hand feeding I want to get their crops fairly full. Without stretching it to much. There's no exact measurement to tell you, every bird will be a little bit different. You will need to get to know each individual bird and how much they are willing to take. It's always better to error on the side of caution and not overfeed them but feed them more often.
Would you recommend using the Magicfly incubator as a brooder? I have a week-old and 3-day old baby cockatiel that was seemingly abandoned by their parents. The rest of the eggs in the nest are infertile. As such, incubating eggs are not my concern. I saw your other video where you touched upon the Magicfly incubator as a brooder. However, I'm not too sure about babies such as mine. I do have experience with handfeeding but I would usually start after the second week while returning the babies back to their nest. Now it's a bit different since the parents no longer feed them I am doing it all every 3-4 hours (5 x a day).
Yes, our experience with ours has been good. Depending on the growth of the chick you can get up to around 2 weeks with this type of brooder. They will out grow it so I would be looking for your next brooder as well.
@@Bird.Squawk Thank you very much for your insight. When they reach 2 weeks or depending on when they've outgrown the magicfly incubator, I will try my best to mimmick your cooler incubator ;)
Just a question: My tiels become 35 days old now. They poop alot and it realy stink.. how do you manage to keep them clean since the literally sit on poop. How you keep your nest area clean?
Amazing how much they get when being fed by you, the parents must have to work triple time to feed all three- anywhere near that quantity. Wondering what the difference is, perhaps the regurgitated worm and bug mixture they need less of, because watching a mother bird feeding several chicks they def don’t get anywhere the amount as they do here.
Bird Squawk it is AMAZING what wild baby birds can put down their gullet. Mom stands there to make sure it goes down too. Makes me realize they are tougher than we think
First let me say thank you for watching our videos. I start introducing food at around 3:00 to 4:00 weeks old when I'm starting the weaning process. Still making sure I'm giving them enough formula. I monitor them to see if they're eating any of the food I'm offering.
Quick question I have a 2 week old cockatiel that has a bloody pin feather I got it to stop bleeding but wanted to know if I should pull it out or leave it?
It's been my experience on a young chick as you're speaking of to leave the pinfeather. As long as the bleeding has been stopped. I would monitor for a day or so. Keep me posted. Thank you for watching our videos! Kevin
Hi,Great video. I have a baby of 4 weeks old .How often do you give them food daily. There parents didn’t want to take care of him anymore and thanks to your video I was able to take care of him since he was only 2 weeks old.Thanks for sharing .
This is so cool! THIS is why I'm making these videos.... Thank you for the amazing comment! Feed you baby as many times as it takes to in order for food to always be in its crop. All baby's will be different. So, feed him until he's full. Can he go an hour? Two hours? Four...... You get the point. The goal is... Keep food in your baby all the time only letting it go empty once in a 24 period. So for me, that's at night. I let my baby's go empty over night. Then feed them throughout the day. Now... With all that said it doesn't mean you can take a new born and let it go 8 hours over night. You will need to get up and feed that baby. Once it gets a little older and can take more food... It will go longer at night.... Just like our kids! Hope this helps keep me posted. And thank you for watching and sharing our videos.... Good luck,. Kevin
Hello.. I'm not sure if you approve of this method , but I gave my angel of 19 days old papaya grounded with seeds mixed with Pedialyte for its slow crop ( I think that's what its called ).. It wasn't even pooping. 😞 after I gave it this mixture for 12 hours angel started pooping and the crop was finally working the way it's supposed to. I give it one syringe full and it looks like its still hungry.. But crop is big.Now my question is do I keep feeding ?? I don't. But want to make sure.dont want angel to burst..
@@yvetterosado3299 It's been my experience that yes the papaya combination works. I've always been recommended that once the crop is moving and emptied that you go back to feeding regular formula. However I tend to feed a little less and not totally fill those crops up but maybe feed more often. So that food doesn't sit in their crop for a long period of time. This method seems to work for me. Maybe it does for other people as well I'm not sure.
Hi, I really need your help our recommendation. My baby of 5 weeks is not eating as he was eating normally every day, and his crop is not anti-completely but he is pooping. I am very worried. What are you recommend me to do??
@@evelyncrespo3337 by your description it sounds like sour crop. Sometimes called slow crop. This means the chick has most likely got a yeast infection in its crop. It will need an antibiotic to overcome this. My advice would be to seek a qualified avian veterinarian. This type of medication is not given over the counter you will need to see a veterinarian.
They are handled alot in our house 😊! Before they are feathered it is a little less because they need to stay warm...but once they have some feathers they are cuddled alot.
There are a lot of things that I want to ask you but I’m going to try and be direct about my stress at hand. We have a “newborn” baby bird that the parents wouldn’t feed and it was the sole survivor. My husband and I have been watching your channel for a couple of years ever since they started laying eggs just in case we had to be prepared to feed any of these babies. I’ve watched so many videos many of yours and read so many different things over the course of the months that they’ve been laying eggs. This newborn is 10 days old and I feel like it’s pretty small for its age, we feed it according to everything that we have read that seems to be correct. we feed it exact formula, we temperature test it, NOW, but unfortunately when the baby hatched we didn’t have a thermometer *when I thought that we did *so the first couple of days we were just doing our best to guess at it.. so needless to say when I inspect and watch the babies crop in between feedings I’m a total stress ball worried that in the first couple of days we didn’t fit correctly and it might have developed slow crop. Is it true if it does have slow crop, that it will not want to eat or will have bubbles visible ? Not air spots but bubbles, ,and will stop pooping? It cries for food a lot but I feel like the crop doesn’t empty the way it should and I just don’t wanna feed it unless I see what I feel is enough of a reduction in the size of its crop. I was just hoping you could help me with some absolute signs that I could see that tells me that it could have slow crop that could develop into sour crop. My heart is breaking for this little guy listening to it cry all the time and I worry that I’m not feeding it enough, but then don’t want to feed it too much and create a detrimental outcome. Just as many of your other followers say, I really appreciate your detailed explanations and all of this information that you’re putting out to help people like my husband and I. and I’m glad I finally followed your page! Sorry it took me so long.
#1. Does the babies crop go empty once a day? If it does then it sounds like you are on a good track. #2. If it does not, then we need to go a little longer between 1 feeding and see if we can get it to empty 1 time. If it will not empty then you could be in the beginning stages of slow crop. #3. Slow crop is not a given life ending condition but the baby will need to see and Avian qualified veterinarian. Do not wait if it will not empty, time is very important to have the best chance to get over slow crop. Piece of advice...I have not had success with ANY home remedies for slow crop. Do not waist your time. I have tried many and the only thing that has ever worked is an antibiotic. The babies stool will become less and usually really dark when slow crop has developed. If the Bodie is not processing food then their is nothing to come out. I know it is yucky but the stool can tell us alot. Should be wet with some liquid, some green and a little white. I wouldn't be overly concerned about size, baby birds are like all babies and grow at different rates. And the crying for food is pretty normal...they always want more but overfeeding can lead to crop issues as well. Keep us posted with updates. Thanks for watching and subscribing, feel free to ask more questions if you need. We hope everything turns out great ❤️!
@@Bird.Squawk Thank you so much for replying! We have been watching to try to see if it empties at least once a day just as you suggest- but I have to be honest with you I was almost gonna ask if you could show me exactly what a completely empty crop looks like because I’ve watched your videos over and over for the last week and it’s just really hard to tell if what I am saying looks empty is really empty. Honestly, yesterday he was pretty full after about seven hours so my husband did a manual crop drain ( because I was worried and he was an army medic he can handle doing what I would not be able to do) by pushing the food out of his crop with him turned upside down, and then we flushed him with Pedialyte. And then gave him two more feedings later that day before the long wait on the feeding that we let him go empty overnight. This morning, in my opinion was the best day, but it was still about seven hours until I felt comfortable thinking his crop looked empty. But it still always kind of looks a little floppy (not at all balloon like just floppy like extra skin) and never completely flat. I know I sound like I don’t know what I’m doing but I promise I am trying the best I can and I love my birds so much, there is just so much information on the Internet and so many pictures and videos that aren’t helpful that you really can’t see up close. And nothing is like seeing it in person. I do not know a breeder, The closest avian vet to me is 50 minutes away and I am an over worrier and really can’t afford to take this baby to a vet unless it’s absolutely necessary. I wouldn’t even know how to transport it and keep it warm and safe on the way. Again thanks for listening to this Spazzzy bird mom. It’s been a hell of a week
Hello Kevin! I want to thank you again for giving me the advice last month and hopes to help my poor bird that had sour crop, or honestly we aren’t exactly sure what was wrong with him but sadly I was utterly broken that it didn’t make it. It died at 13 days old. Well because our Mom and Dad pair already had in their mind that they abandoned that baby they immediately started breeding again, actually while we were still feeding the little one. She had four more eggs of which two hatched and are so far doing just OK. They were feeding them but they were seriously over feeding the one that hatched first I mean grossly over feeding it, and the little one wasn’t getting fed enough so we pulled them both pretty much 100% from the nest just about 5 days in. They were born on the 6th and the 9th. I’m rambling sorry I’m just writing to ask what your opinion is on whether or not bad bird parents, or inadequate bird parents always stay that way? I really don’t want to 100% hand feed another pair or let alone an entire clutch ever again. We are doing a good job I think, but I believe the effects of a few really bad over feedings and then the lack of good feedings for the little one took a toll but they eat like clockwork and no issues digesting so we are hopeful! I got to say, I really did want to get into learning more and more and becoming a small breeder but this is hard! So hard. Worrying constantly about the babies bc we have 100% care is more than my nerves are handling well. I just won’t let them breed again if they are just going to be bad bird parents each time. I really admire you for taking on such a demanding profession in life! I don’t know what I would have done through all of this without your videos!
I have a clutch of 5 being nested by the mother, one hatched today and I know you've said they won't feed them for 8 to 12 hours but this is her(and my) first clutch. What should I be on the lookout for?
Congratulations. Watch that baby's crop. At some point in that time frame we need to see food. On a new parent... Not sure I would go much longer than 6 to 8 hours. And is the mom sitting on it and keeping it warm. New parents is always guess work.
Unfortunately baby passed last night, she is sitting on the eggs but she didn't feed. Unfortunately the membrane was dried and I believe I got it out too late, but I couldn't run out for formula or an incubator since everywhere was closed. Picked everything up this morning and I'm going to let her sit on them until they peep(which one is) and I'll move it to the incubator
@@Fitxforxprom keep us posted I have lots of videos on feeding them right from the egg. Ask questions if you need to. I'm sorry to hear about your other baby. I go through the same thing. I have new parents and you have to left them try to see if they will feed. The ideal situation is the parents will feed for a couple of 3 weeks and then we pull the babies and finish the hand feeding. Again, watch the videos and if you have questions on those videos let me know. Kevin
@@Bird.Squawk thanks so much, I've watched every single video you have of feedings. The parents sit on my shoulder and watch as I take care of them but no matter if they're in the nesting box or in my hand if the babies are too close mother will attack. The father is terrified of them, I've tried to introduce them through training exercises. I've been feeding them by hand and try to include the parents every time.
@@Bird.Squawk Also, the 1st hatchling has been staying at 3grams while the younger 2 have been gaining. I haven't done anything different with this one and I've seen you talk about stunted growth, if I'm remembering that term correctly. I'll scroll through to see if you have a video, baby is very active and vocal. Seems to tap out easier during feedings while everyone else demands more and more, definitely begs when time comes.
I have same chick cinimon pearl But his growth is very slow He is eyes opening in 12 days Pin feathers coming in 20 days Please help for normal or fast growth
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here. However they all grow differently some fast some slow. Monitor its weight gain. Make sure it's getting enough food throughout the day. Maybe you need to increase the amount of feedings. I found in my experience feeding them less at a time but more often through the day promotes growth. This doesn't allow the formula to just sit in their crops for so long It seems to pass through faster. Then they get fresh formula quicker. Again in my experience if a bird is eating a bird is pooping and it's up to weight then everything should be fine. However, if you think your bird is having trouble my advice would be to seek a qualified avian veterinarian.
Sometimes the parents will not hatch the eggs so we hatch them and hand feed from the 1st day. Sometimes the parents will feed for a bit and then stop and we have to step in.
Currently we do not sell to the public, my recommendation would be to search for a local breeder in your area or a bird/parrot only store...babies from these are usually handled more and make great pets. Thank you for watching.
At the current time this is the only means of communication. If you have questions please feel free to try to ask. I try to get to them all. I get a lot and it takes a little time sometimes but I try to get them all. Thanks Kevin
Hello, thanks for watching our videos. Great question. We love to let the babies stay with the parents until they are 4 weeks, however sometime we have no choice but to pull them a little earlier. If the parents have a large clutch of babies it can be very hard on them to keep up with the feedings and this can add too much stress on them and possibly weaken the parents health or immune system. Every pair of parents we have are different, it is our job to provide for the parents and watch the babies. We carefully monitor them both and keep the health of the babies and the parents in mind at the same time.
