Greetings, what temperature do you let the incubator stay at when it’s acting as a brooder? Thanks for sharing your expertise. Love the feeding video illustrations . God bless and stay safe!
for a day or so I keep it around 98. then I slowly start bringing it down. 95 for a few days, then 93..... the goal is the bring the temperature down slow.
I'd like to see a video on how to set up a nesting box and when should I get it set up. I have two females about a yr old and just got a 3 mth old male
Hello! Your videos give so much knowledge. I have four eggs in an incubator and this is my first time having my birds have successful babies! Mom rejected the eggs and was wondering if you could provide any advice or if you have a blog i Can read! Thank you!
I’ve had a young mother reject her first hatched Love Bird, i had it last night in a little with box with micro fibre cloth sitting on a reptile heat pad as I couldn’t find my incubator and it survived the night. I now have it set up in the incubator. set at 36.4 degrees I’ve feed the bird this morning how long normally between feeds. thank you Sharon
Congratulations. The key is to only let the baby go empty once a day. So, you're going to have to watch your baby and see how long it can go. only let it go empty once in a 24 hour period.
@@Bird.Squawk It’s crop doesn’t seem to be emptying overnight. crop still has food, worried about sour crop do you have any remedies, it was last feed 6 hour ago and crop is still 3/4 full
My cockatiel babies are two days old and still with parents I'm planning to let them stay with parents until three weeks then pull and handfeed and wean. I heard its easier hand feeding older babies because they less delicate and that they'll end up just as tame as fully handraised but unsure whether that's wrong and the babies would make better pets if pulled now and fully handraised
I have a single chick and its 2 weeks old but looks like days old. Can you do stunted chicks discussion and how to feed them properly, like how many hour interval and how many ML depending on weeks. Thank You! Nee subscriber here.
Yes, we can do something like that. Unfortunately its not that simple. See, what works for one bird may be different for another. What I can tell you is as a general rule you want the baby to always have food in their crops. Only let that crop empty once a day. So, keep your baby full all day long, Make sure its full right before you go to bed. it can go up to 8 hours on that last feeding. This insures the crop completely empties once a day. Feed the baby in the morning, no longer than 8 hours. Keep it fed all day and repeat again that night. This is what works for me. you may have to play around with the times for your baby. your baby may need food every two hours during the day, some will not empty as fast and can go longer. Point is you have to figure out each baby. hope this helps
Hi there, I may have missed the answer in one of your videos but curious if you do any night feedings with the newly hatched babies for the first week or so?
Yes, and I found with my experience that it's extremely important to do this. That first week of keeping that crop full seems to be very important for warding off any unwanted infection or diseases.
Greetings from Indonesia! I have 2 eggs chirping inside incubator. Both are supposed to hatch yesterday but they have not hatched until today. When should I intervene and how would I do it? Thanks!
Those darn things are so hard to find. I have a manufacture that is going to make them for all of Bird Squawk nation. They should be arriving soon and once they are here I will share them on the channel. I had to order a very large quantity but I will divvy them up to the people that want them. Thank you for the kind words about our channel. I hope you subscribe and share our videos.
hi, I have two baby cockatiels, maybe in between stage 2 and 3. one has a more healthy appetite than the other and is gaining weight everyday, but the other one isn't losing or gaining any weight. should i be concerned? he still eats and gets excited for food, just doesn't eat until his crop is full. he does peck at millet though. how do i encourage him to eat more? thanks
Hello!! First I would like to thank you for sharing all these amazing baby birds caring tips, I have a quaker parrots ( male & famale) and one of the 4 eggs was hatched but the baby are die the next day as we left him with his parents we don't know what caused the death it was so sad for usto see this little cute baby dead 😢 and now I decide to take the babies out the cage as soon as they hatched from the eggs and I will take care of them, I would like to ask how I keep them in the right tempreture as I'm not an expert about it I have no special machine, also, how many times they should be feed in a day? and for what age? Thank you so much!
That's a lot of information to pass along in this reply. Great news is all of that information is in my videos. watch them. you will gain the knowledge you're looking for. you will need something to keep them warm... and they will need to be fed around the clock.... its a big job, get ready and have fun with it. Kevin
@@Bird.Squawk Thank you so much Sir for your reply, and so sorry for the long questions I asked. I will watch your videos for sure! Also I appreciate your wishing I know I'm going to face a hard job with these Chicks finger crossed 🤞.
hello sir, please i breed your expertise advice please?! i have a brinsea tlc -30 but most of my babies will die due to dehydration?! i know they need right amount of moisture but the manual doesn’t say acting about a water pan ?!
Hi I have 3 eggs in a incubator. One will hatch next week. Ive been reading a lot about feeding and I came across in one of the website they say to give Pedialyte to a newly hatch cockatiel before u give formula. Do you recommend feeding Pedialyte before feeding formula? Have you done that? Thanks for sharing your videos, they are a big help!!
No I have not done this. However, I don't see it being a problem... They do make a baby boost powder... I have some and use it at times. But for the most part I keep a very close eye on the baby's and they get what they need from the hand feeding formula. Hopes this helps. .. keep us posted on your baby's..... Kevin
@@Bird.Squawk I do have a few questions! I've been feeding every 2 hrs on the clock. I fed last night 2 times between 12 midnight and 5:30. Do they need to eat at these hrs? Also since I have only one bird in incubator what temp should be ok to keep it? Thank you for your advise and help !!!
I dont know if ill get a reply. What exactly do you feed the birds? So my cockatiel died leaving 6eggs. So I switched them over to an incubator to see if they hatch. Se was in the process of laying them. I just want know what to feed them when they hatch. And when they do do i get a brooder like yours?
Yes you will need to get some hand feeding formula. I use Exact. And after the eggs hatch you will need a brooder. See my video on candling the eggs. Let's make sure you have fertile eggs before you go to a large setup.
@@Bird.Squawk thank you for your feedback Im not 100% sure and see alot of different info. But at what humidity should the eggs be for cockatiel in the incubator. And if I should rise the humidity at day 15? I know chicken eggs you’re supposed too. You’re the only one on RU-vid that i think would know more. Thank you for your help Also ive tried looking for the Syringe are you using from this video and can’t seem to find it.
My two green cheek Conyers had their first lay last summer none of them made due to an accident but this is the second lay and all were fertile and they all hatched five of them my question is since all of them hatch on a different day about 3 Days To 2 days apart do I pull all of them at once wait until the last ones 2 weeks or do I pull them when the first one's two weeks so on and so on some are very small because they were the last ones to hatch and some are big actually the first one that hatched is a few days older than 2 weeks
I like to wait! If the parents are doing their job and feeding well..... I let them do it. keep an eye on them... you can always pull them and take over if you need to. But, when pull...I pull them all. Hope this helps..... Great question BTW. keep me posted on how it goes... Kevin
My cocktails are 1 and 2 years old the mother is 2 the father is one and had two sets of eggs that are not hatching. Can you tell me why? Thank you for the video.
Love your channel.. I have 10 eggs and I've never done this before. I ran into your channel and you're very inspiring with great detail. I currently got an incubator that I will be getting soon... Question to you is about the second incubator the bigger one, I've tried to search for it online and cannot find it. All I see is a lot of overpriced mechanisms. Do you happen to know the name of the incubator that you have. The medium one..
Thank you for the kind words and for watching our videos... I hope you subscribe! The white incubator is really for quail eggs. you find them at farm and home or tractor supply. Maybe amazon. $50.00 to 60.00 bucks... hope this helps. Kevin
@@Bird.Squawk hello Kevin, i got the smaller one you have on this video on Amazon. Then with much online investigation i found the second foam one for after they hatch in order to wean then to normal temperature.. Your system is great 👍🏼 Q: do i rotate the eggs daily as others suggest? I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL.. YES I'M A 🎉 NEW SUBSCRIBER🎉 We are learning so much from you.. We live how you also maintain your stations so clean..
My apologies..i have one more question . I bought fake eggs in order to trick them so that I may get the 10 that I have incubated... It has been over a month for about five of them.. I'm really concerned, but the parents are so protective and Alternate not giving me a chance to switch them up. Mind you these birds love me but not when it comes to their babies. I wish I could have parents like that 😂 My question is, how do I do the switcheroo. I guess I'll just go on my instinct? I don't have a normal nest. They kind of took over one of my cabinets. I have my four cockatiels on guard. It's so precious but I really need to get these eggs out I'm starting to get concerned..
@@LSV.Delight If I am understanding correctly the eggs are still with the parents at this point and you are asking how to get them out and put the fake eggs in? We usually do not have a problem retrieving our eggs, we find it easier to gather them after just filling the food and water bowls or offering the parents their favorite treat or snack. Our birds will tend to leave the nest for a few minutes at this time. Maybe try their favorite food to entice them out. We do not switch to fake eggs in our aviary, we would rather give them a break from sitting. If some of the eggs are over 30 days old then unfortunately they may not have been fertile or for some reason they did not make it. Once you have taken them out of the nest you can candle them to see which is the case. Cockatiel eggs take somewhere between 18 to 24 days to hatch. We have a video on candleing on the channel if you need help with that as well. If they are live eggs then when in the incubator we will rotate them a couple times a day up until about day 18, after that we let them be until they hatch. You will hear chirping sometimes for a couple days before hatching. Hope this helps but always feel free to ask questions!
Hey we have a 3day old baby cockatiel, we are watching your videos to learn how to feed ours. At first the air in their crop were okay but now its getting bigger even tho they dont have food in they crop. Any chance to how to let the air out? How to massage the crop?
As long as the size of your incubator is adequate and you are able to control the temperature as you will need to lower it as the baby starts getting feathers then you can use the incubator, this is the way we use our incubator.
@@Bird.Squawk Yes Im able to do that with my incubator, now I feel like I’m doing everything correctly. Thank you so much for your quick reply. Awesome videos, they will help me a lot.
For eggs I run my one at 37. After they hatch I keep it at that for a week or so. Then start slowly backing down the temp. Keeping an eye on the birds making sure they're not to cold or over heating. All birds are going to be a little different so watch yours,
This will be different for every bird. I never let the crop go empty but once a day. So you may need to feed your bird every few hours. In the beginning you will have to watch your bird closely. Never letting that crop go empty. You will only let the crop go empty once a day.
@@Bird.Squawk 👍🌹 Thank you very much for the information, I raise my birds outside the house in a sanctuary, and I put a water-based air conditioner to cool the air, and I watched the temperature It reaches between 30 ° C and sometimes 28 ° C. Do you think it is suitable for young birds?
@@Bird.Squawk We have a very hot summer. I try as much as possible to reduce the temperature for the birds, I think you have much colder weather outside
Hey, what brooder would you recommend and what tempersture for eggs and for new borns? As I'm planning to hand feeding them? I have canarys. Thank you!
I have never hatched Canary's... But I'm sure the magicfly brooder would work fine. You can find it on Amazon. As far as temp you will need to do some research on that for canaries.
I have two almost four week old cockatiel chicks, and one three week old chick and some itty bitty babies, that I am hand raising after their parents decided to not care for them. I am wondering if you know of an easy and quick way to get old formula off the older chicks chin feathers. For the life of my I can't get them to sit still long enough for me to gently work it out and they hate having their faces washed after being fed. Any ideas or hints to point me in the right direction would be great.
This a battle we fight. When I feed I keep water near so I'm continuously wiping them off. when it gets dried on them around their face, you can at times crack it... DON'T pull it. Just try to gently break it up with your fingernail. Gently! is the key! Another method is to continuously putting small amounts of water on the food so that it softens up and then you can clean the babies face.
@@Bird.Squawk I ended up having to use q-tips and eventually my finger tips to get water on the dried formula and I guess they found it relaxing. Because they finally ended up sitting still and letting me work it out. Once done they seemed so much happier. Would you by chance have a video about teaching them to forage for themselves? I also have a quick question about the magic fly / janoel 12 incubator. I am using it has a small brooder, but I have one chick who is just too tall in it. But no other brooder available at this time, to move it too. Any ideas on a simple , cheaper, and bigger incubator. That I could use as a brooder for the baby babies as they grow.
@@tiffanyboever842 I have larger brooder that I move the chicks into once the majicfly is too small. I turned a cooler I to a brooder... That's a video coming...lol. I have seen people use small fish tanks and a heating source. Anything you use MUST be heat monitored... It needs to hold the temperature steady. And be accurate!
What type of brooder are you using? Also what chick crumb? Love the video, very informative. D9 you have a number or any social media to contact on. Would really love to keep in contact for more help and advice.
Bird.Squawk of facebook, The brooder is one made for quail eggs. you can find the online. "Chick Crumb?" ??? web site coming. Thanks for watching Kevin
I would need to know more information on what type of parrot you would be talking about. It's not uncommon collect the baby chicks wait for at least a few hours before their first feeding.
It will need some source of heat. Either from the parents sitting on it or an incubator of some type. I keep my new hatch chicks at 98°F for the first few days. That's just my experience.
I have 2 that are in a brooder together but they keep peaking at each other and I had to put a cardboard in the middle. How do I fix that I want to eventually put them together in a cag?
@@Bird.Squawk so leaving them separate is a good thing until they get older? Also, I have a month old who I’m trying to wean off formula he’s fed 3 times a day but every time I feed him he bites me all time? Any ideas on how to stop that or is this normal? Or should I feed him more often?
@@lidiasanchez7625 He's not really biting you, he's looking for food. Three full crops a day should be enough. I seldom separate my baby's. but I'm not there to see what yours are doing.
@@Bird.Squawk when I feed them or even before they just find each other and join beaks like the mom would do to feed them. But the also wrap each other around in the neck and sometimes peak at each other in the neck or back of the head
Where can I get 2 bird eggs to hatch myself I like to a to had chickens and quail and that kind of but I really like to do a couple of birds where can I get these things that
I'm sorry I'm available by phone. If you have questions, please leave them here. I try my best to answer them all. However I must admit I get a lot and that number is growing everyday.
Please stop breeding? There are now more birds in adoption places that have been abandoned than there are owners or homes. At least educate people on how to care for the birds, the challenges.
That depends on the age of the baby. Younger ones will need feeding through the night. I have a few videos that cover this topic, I would suggest taking a look at those. A lot more information there then I can give you here... Kevin
