What to feed a baby BIRD | Homemade hand feeding formula recipe  

I was searching how to make a bird formula at home and this just saved a life

This is definitely a life saving video. We found an abandoned baby bird tonight . I am trying this early morning tomorrow .

My dad just cut down a tree that we didn’t know had a nest, so now we have 4 bald babies and I desperately want to save them. I will be watching tons of your baby bird videos, thank you. Making the formula as I type. I’ve never taken care of a bird before let alone a little hatchling, I’m scared

Just found a baby bird in the flower bed this morning. So thankful to have found your video.

Straight to the point and VERY informative! Thank you so much for this!

I was struggling so much about the home made food for baby birds with dfrnt channels but everyone suggested for cerelac or something complicated. U came up as an angel for me. Fed the two now. And now m here to thank you for making this video. ❤❤❤

Hey , again a similar story. I was renovating my bird shed to start with finch keeping after a break from bird breeding for a few years. I left an unnoticed gap under the door and my hen zebbie who was sitting on 5 chicks between 9 and 15 days old got out and the cock abandoned the chicks by the next night. I have bred parrots for years and have a little experience in handrearing bigger birds like conures Senegal’s love birds and cockatiels so i thought i would have a go at saving the little chicks as it was my fault they had been left and would die. I used your formula to get the first feed into the little ones and ultimately saved their lives. They were gone listless and lethargic till i gave them your recipe of food. I managed to get a tub of hand rearing formula and they are now starting the weaning process. Thanks loads for this wonderful video. I have two little videos of me feeding the chicks the first after 6 days and the second 3 weeks later, Monday last week. You might get a kick out of seeng the little ones you helped save 😊 the little videos are on my “channel” (its not really a channel just the two little videos of the baby zebbie feedings. 🤷‍♂️😊

Thank you ❤ur recipe has helped baby doves grow so far for 4 days straight ❤

Thank you!!!!! I was thinking it would he something complicated but u made it soooo easy! Thank you!

My vet told me never give egg to a sparrow which would destroy their digestive system. You can give good quality of kitten cat kibble . you boil water and let it warm and put some kitten kibble with chicken and wait till the kibbles got soft and observe water . You can feed the baby sparrow with it which I’m doing it now. I use tweezers and cut the kibble in 2 or 3 pieces and gently give one by one to the baby. I also mix it with the boiled drinking water ( to have a sterilized water) and givi it with a injection ( take of the needle ofcourse) . So that gives the bird water and the minerals she needs. I feed them in every 2 hours , sometimes even in 1 hour they get hungry. I don’t sleep however worth it for their lives. The other important thing is to make them feel that they are in their nest. And be aware of their body temperature. I don’t use hot water bag because I’m scared if I can’t control the heat. So I use stones which I warm them in the owen. And I replace them at the corners of their box. And make sure they have an organic box with air holes. After I feed then I slightly cover them and they feel at home and sleep. I check the heat in the box to make sure they are ok. And also I put soft toilet paper pieces where they sleep , it’s easy to collect when they poop. They poop when the mother is there because in nature, mother collects it when they are pooping. Very strange. You can find videos of it. So I try my best to do it in their own nature. This is my first experience and I wanted to share it with you. They are 7 days old. I hope all the best to you all

I found two babies on the ground tonight! Thank you for making this video!

Found a nestling on the ground 4 days ago. No sign of parents. Some Googling brought me here and the bird has been eating consistently. Getting close to fledgling stage now. Thank you!

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Thanks bro You save five lives Cause i found a nest with 5 birds :)

Very thorough description, and demonstrating how to feed the babies! Excellent video!

Awesome !!! Helped a LOT ! Thank you :)

Thank You soooooo much. This is going to be a life savor .

This was so awesome to see!!

Thank you so much saved my conures 10 day old chicks 🙏💙

Such a lifesaver video help me out so much thxxxx

I found a new born bird two days ago, such a grace. 😇

Thank you, your channel is great and I really benefited❤❤

Great video, extremely informative

Useful content as always!

thank you for this. I had to buy warms yesterday for a rescue.

Nice, appreciate this very much

I just found an abandoned nest with 2 baby robins this video saved a life thank you so much

Does this food work on any baby bird?

We had a wind storm last night which blew an oriole nest out of the tree. There were three babies in it and unfortunately one died. The other two are safe back in the nest which we have on a table at the moment. Mom is nowhere to be seen. We'll feed them using your formula. Thanks for making this video. Let's hope for the best.

This was very helpful.

I've been looking for easy formula & caring methods for a bit, this is the best one. I don't even know if ill need it but I wanted to be ready. I have a bird that has nested in my roof. It in a position that I can't even see the nest, but some heavy wind blew an egg out & it rolled down & landed in front of my porch. I don't want to try to put it back because the mom could reject them all, & I couldn't see/reach the nest even if I wanted to... there are no cracks or visible damage to the egg, so I'm hopeful it survived the fall. I figured it wouldn't hurt anything to try to save it. I put a heating pad in a empty fish tank & used the bottom of a Pokémon ball & a sock for the nest... I hope that will suffice. Thank you for your video. ❤

Very helpful video. Thank you so much

thanks soo much I been looking for something like this

I’m currently helping a baby grey catbird. I’ve been feeding it banana blueberry organic baby food. It has some feather growth so it’s not tini tiny.

I just found 4 finch in my backyard. There a few weeks older then this little guy have, I think lol. I just gave them some earthworms now, I cut them up small. Hoping that’s ok. Gonna try this method next, thanks!

This is great!!! Thank you!!!

I found a baby bird 3 days ago and had no idea that was a crop thought some5ing was wrong with the throat actually until I watched this …so helpful this video . Still not sure what to do with the bird but I’m learning fast

Thank you so much for this video. Got a mother budgie that has 3 babies and just stopped feeding the youngest. I've searched for the store bought formula but was unsuccessful. I was giving it bread & milk and it has kept him alive thus far. Going to try your formula. Praying that it lives.

Very helpful and straight to the point

This helps so much. I found two baby birds that fell out of the nest. Thank you.

Greate info, many thanks!

Very good...

Thank you! It's very useful. :^)

Thanks man, I tend to find a lot of baby birds, nobody else seems to bother helping them here :(

Thanks a lot, today a bird's chicks fell off the nest and I have tried each n every thing to met them with their mother but, unfortunately mother failed to find them. Then I decided to take care of them by myself, hope I can keep them safe and healthy.

ALLAH BLESS YOU 🎉

Great video, but toothpicks or anything sharp and hard could end up perforating the crop and or esophagus. Super important you use something soft and not sharp, like a syringe with an attachment for a very young small bird.

Thank you for this

THANK YOU !!!

Thanks so much for this information! Question: could I use corn grits, basically ground hominy, instead of corn meal?

Omg i need this right away thank you( theres a bird nest right on my door and i heard loud noises so i opened the door, total of around 3 bbys, one is ded one left only a leg and one still alive) thankfully the pinfeathers are already to start opening, and i have some experience with feeding baby budgies.

Thank u so much! So far this has worked perfectly! Now the next question is how many times a day do I feed it.

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great tutorial!❤

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I'll try this process.

Thank you 🙏🏻

Thanku very much sir 🙏🏻

Hi there! That was a very informative video. Is this formula alright for baby pigeons too?

I used Rolled Oats and Dried Mealworms crushed and mixed with a little Spring water. Put it on a plate out by the clothesline pole under the windchime and wind sock👍🏼Robins learn not to be afraid of the movement. Everything else scatters. But They Dont share the plate very well

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I have a question. I love your channel I studied yours and others and I hand commercial formula left from my cockatiels. I hand-fed snd raised my 2 baby cockatiels from 2 weeks old up . We rescued a newborn baby maybe 2 days old that was either ejected from a nest or fell from a nest . I even was in contact with a lady I met on Tik Tok that rescues wild birds . I only had a little commercial food left so yesterday afternoon I ground up really fine oats and mixed the dry oats with the rest of my dry commercial formula. . I ordered more formula from Amazon and was waiting on it . The bird seemed to do just fine with the mixture . I had Frances Hope in a bed lined with fleece blanket on a cardboard box and the box inside of a big clear plastic box with a heating pad on low . I checked it frequently. I gave her the last feeding at 2 am this morning . I had to sleep , I checked on her at 4 am she was very dead . I’m praying it’s nothing I did , I’m praying it wasn’t the oatmeal . I made sure the consistency was right . I’m not sure if she was sick and maybe I didn’t know or if the fall injured her or what . But oatmeal is sticky and drying and I had the consistency right , I just pray it wasn’t the oats I mixed in the formula. My husband went out to bury it , I just couldn’t. All lives are so valuable, and I believe God wants us to be kind to helpless creatures . The bird was going to the bathroom a whole lot , this morning when I found it dead there was no bowel movement. When you rescue a wild baby it’s around the clock care and feedings , so much responsibility and work . If you think the oatmeal killed it then maybe my story will help . I didn’t overfeed it either .

hi, is this okay for all baby birds? i’ve got a pigeon egg and i need to hand feed him as a hatchling and i’m aware they normally eat crop milk

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Thank you very much for sharing this video! I have a 16-day old baby Zebra Finch. The mother stopped feeding it or incubating after 13 days so I was forced to take care of it and hand-feed. However, it seems to be swallowing A LOR of air through the day and I don't know if there is anything wrong with it. Sometimes it creates what looks like foam in the top part of its crop... Am I doing anything wrong? Should I try your homemade formula? Thanks 😊

THANKS. LOTS. !!!

I found this baby bird and I didn't know what to feed it so...thankyou

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Ty for this in the morning i will try to do it but before this video we feeded bird with wet and smooshed dog food hope this is gonna be better

Awesome, the formula is short here in local shops

Thank you

Thnx brother ❤️

This is saving a life today, my grandma found a baby bird that fell and lucky landed on a mattress, despite them telling me that it WILL die im still determined to save it!

thank you

Thank you so much now l know what to do

Thank you for this i was able to save a baby bird

Thank you so much for making this video, I found 2 baby birds in my backyard and they seem to have fallen from their nest. I tried to return them to their parents but I can't find the nest. So now I have taken the responsibility to feed them and I will be using this formula. Thank you so much!

I used chopsticks. Lol. They sort of mimic the birds beak when you have to readjust your grip on the food, which in turn softens it. It also Mimics how birds can’t so easily chop things up or manoeuvre as finely as we do. Maybe they think I’m a bird. I found insects btw. Worms, berries, stuff they’d eat normally plus yoghurt and a few random things because they eat anything. I used a syringe for water if I couldn’t find wet clumps of roots to wring, a dewy leaf, etc.

a baby bird fell off it's nest, few days old and I decided to keep and take care of it till it can fly on its own, i took on yt to find what to feed baby birds, , then i found your post.. my questions are how many times do I need to feed it and when it grows a little bigger ( hopefully) do I need to change what to feed it or should I continue the same?? some worms or small insects maybe ? and if I need to change the food, when will I know it's time to change it??

I just rescued one the same age as yours. Can you please tell me how old yours is. Wanting to have an idea of what to feed him in stages. He is doing really well on what I am giving him now. I had a rehaber tell me something to feed him. Do I need to feed through the night at this age? I have been seeing feedevery two hours stop at 9pm start again at 7 am. I also have him in a horse water bucket with hay to hide hanging outside as it is very warm. It is supposed to get to 69 degrees tonight don’t want him to get cold. Should I bring him in and keep a heating pad under him? If anyone can answer my questions please do and thank you.

GREAT video! I am feeding a baby sparrow. He is eating the mix you suggest and chirping and pooping. How long until he is ready to go off on his own? Hw will he know what to do since his parents didn't teach him?

my bird had baby and im planing on feeding it by hand so this can help a lot

Very helpful as we get many baby birds that have fallen from thé nest in the Caribbean.

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I was mowing my lawn and found a bird nest on the ground. Started mowing again and saw a baby bird. Almost mowed over him. Thought he was dead but I saw it breathing. Before I saw your video I gave him a few drops of water as I thought he was dehydrated it’s been hot here and he was laying out in the sun. I made formula like you said and he won’t eat but I’ll let him rest and try again later. The water really perked him up (a little bit).

Thank you. Great video. Is the cereal cooked or raw? What kind and brand cereal did you use?

I also found a fledgling today and stumbled across this video while searching how and what to feed him ❤❤❤❤❤❤

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I usually use baby porridge without milk or sugar. It consists of wheat, rice and buckwheat very finely grated. But i read that you still need some sort of enzymes to help them with digestion...

Interesting. What do you use? Petco has powder food. I do not think it's organic.

Is this good for vermivores too? Or just seed-eaters? Thank you

Can we use the regular oats that are provided in market for humans and then grind then to make thinner

Your video is very helpful! I had a question: could I use an egg incubator to keep a baby bird warm?

Thank you god bless you. My cat brought two baby birds in her mouth last night and dropped them off on my porch! Made the egg and oatmeal mush and it is eating it and pooping regularly. One of the birds unfortunately died this morning. I thought it would as since it came it looked like it was having a hard time breathing. It’s sibling is chirping and eating and pooping. Keeping it warm till hopefully it can go out on its own.

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Hi.. yesterday I rescued the bulbul bird from street dogs, maybe it is 10days old (eyes are opend). I don't have any idea about birds feeding. But yesterday I fed some (Wheat apple flavour) cerelac. Today I fed some fruits like ( Ivy gourd, apple and grapes) But bird poop looks like some watery and looks like fruit colour what I fed. Is there something wrong with my feeding? Is that loose motions or normal motions? Please let me know. I'm worried 😟 I'm feeding every hour once. Not at all over feeding. Because it's opening the mouth only twice.. each and every time 🤷

I just found a baby eagle. Thanks for the info

Is this formula good for zebra finches ? When the eggs hatch do i leave a light on (IN the cage) so that momma bird can feed the babies regularly during the night ???