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All baby birds rank very high on the uglyometer and are very fragile at this stage.
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You need to keep them (and their food) very warm.
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A heat lamp and a well ventilated container will do the job. Change those paper towels often.
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This food works great. If you follow their directions, you'll do fine.
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Bird feeding syringes work best. Eye droppers make the job more difficult.
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And, a handy technician like Kellie Greenwood helps. She's hand fed lots of hookbills.
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Eating machines -- blind, naked, non-flying, non-walking -- entirely at the mercy of their parents (or Kellie).
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Here's a couple that have already been fed -- totally incapable of standing up.
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You've probably heard the expression 'Naked as a jay bird.'
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Feed from their left side. They need help at this size. As they grow, they start insisting on grabbing the syringe.
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Occasionally you need to turn them up to expel any air bubbles in their crop.
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Gently inject the tasty (?) gruel.
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Load him to the max every two hours.
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Gently skoosh out any air bubbles in their crops. Re-feed every two hours.
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Not bird-like yet. Note the substrate. The paper towels need changing at every feeding.
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As they grow, their eyes begin opening and you get a glimpse of their future colors.
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As they grow, they start fletching. You can get some idea of their colors now. A yellow and a blue.
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Changes start happening more quickly. They start looking more and more like actual birds.
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Now you can tell he's a bird -- maybe not what species, but certainly a bird.
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Still fletching. Very bird like. Still staggers and looks scraggly.
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Still not eating on his own, so he gets his crop stuffed again.
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Easy to tell their colors now.
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They still need Kellie, their foster mom, but not so many feedings per day.
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Now they're ready to go in a cage and learn to stand on a perch and to chew and eat their own food.
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They'll still look at you and try to coax you to feed them for awhile.
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But best of all, they think they're little people and aren't afraid of you. Hand-fed birds make the best pets.
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You'll still need to trim one wing to keep him from soaring like an eagle.
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You need to interact with your hand-fed birds daily. Don't just keep yours in a cage.
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Now it's time for him to kiss his mommy goodbye and enter the real world.
Last Words. We don't recommend taking your hand-fed bird outside. We live in peregrine falcon territory. One of our customers was relaxing on his deck with his tame quaker parrot enjoying the evening breeze. Suddenly a peregrine swooped down and absconded with his quaker parrot. LA
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