IcyWolf
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- Jul 5, 2011
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- ~Alexandrine Parakeet~2 Red Lored Amazons~Blue Fronted Amazon~Black capped conure~4 Green Cheeks~4 Parrotlets~2 lineolated parakeets~9 American budgies~9 English budgies~ And lots of babies :)
First off, I didn't mean to disappear for the past two weeks, BUT...from 11.28 until yesterday I have had no electricity It's kind of a long story but it has to do with the people that lived here before us and a tussle with the electric company, but after two weeks and a lot of money, we once again have power so, here I am.
Our little baby budgie hatched the morning of 11.28 and by about noon our electricity went off and I went outside to see that our meter was completely gone! At that point it was safe to say that I was completely freaking out. Our bedroom has no windows so without electricity it is pitch black and pretty cold. Luckily we have a wood stove but it's on the second floor of our envelope heated style house so without electricity to run the blowers and ceiling fan, it was quite a task keeping everyone warm. The little baby is quite a trooper though and he survived despite being the only one. The other fertile egg unfortunately did not make it I pulled the nestbox last night and put him in the brooder and gave him his first hand feeding around midnight last night. Everything went well and I was feeling pretty good about everything, but when I went to feed him again around 4 this morning, he was eating but he kept sucking air into his crop! I've never had this happen before in any of the babies I have raised and it has me quite concerned. He will be eating fine and then all of a sudden he will have these little air bubbles in his crop which then get bigger, before I know it, his crop is full of air with only about a third of his crop actually having food in it. I can gently squeeze his crop and sort of burp him to remove the air but after I do, he doesn't really want to eat anymore and if I put him back in the brooder that way, next thing I know his crop is full of air again. He is getting some food, but it's not a big full cropfull like I am used to. I've been researching and reading online about this and I'm not having much luck figuring out how to stop it. I've fed plenty of babies, but never one this small, but I have never had this happen. Also, It wasn't happening when the mom was feeding him so I don't think it is something wrong with him, like a ruptured air sac or anything. For now, I am just feeding him more often than I had planned, trying to keep a decent amount of food in him just so he doesn't starve to death. Otherwise, he seems strong and healthy, his brooder is in the nineties and the room itself is in the 80's so I don't think he is too cold. I've been checking the temps of his food as well, start out with about 120 degree water, mix with the food, cool to about 105 and then feed him, unfortunately, since he is the only baby, I'm only mixing about a spoonful of formula at a time and it seems to cool pretty quickly, but I have just been putting the syringe in a cup of hot water if I feel it is getting to cool for him. His crop is also emptying just fine, it's just that he keeps sucking air into it. Can anyone give me some advice? I would be devastated if something happened to this little guy.
Our little baby budgie hatched the morning of 11.28 and by about noon our electricity went off and I went outside to see that our meter was completely gone! At that point it was safe to say that I was completely freaking out. Our bedroom has no windows so without electricity it is pitch black and pretty cold. Luckily we have a wood stove but it's on the second floor of our envelope heated style house so without electricity to run the blowers and ceiling fan, it was quite a task keeping everyone warm. The little baby is quite a trooper though and he survived despite being the only one. The other fertile egg unfortunately did not make it I pulled the nestbox last night and put him in the brooder and gave him his first hand feeding around midnight last night. Everything went well and I was feeling pretty good about everything, but when I went to feed him again around 4 this morning, he was eating but he kept sucking air into his crop! I've never had this happen before in any of the babies I have raised and it has me quite concerned. He will be eating fine and then all of a sudden he will have these little air bubbles in his crop which then get bigger, before I know it, his crop is full of air with only about a third of his crop actually having food in it. I can gently squeeze his crop and sort of burp him to remove the air but after I do, he doesn't really want to eat anymore and if I put him back in the brooder that way, next thing I know his crop is full of air again. He is getting some food, but it's not a big full cropfull like I am used to. I've been researching and reading online about this and I'm not having much luck figuring out how to stop it. I've fed plenty of babies, but never one this small, but I have never had this happen. Also, It wasn't happening when the mom was feeding him so I don't think it is something wrong with him, like a ruptured air sac or anything. For now, I am just feeding him more often than I had planned, trying to keep a decent amount of food in him just so he doesn't starve to death. Otherwise, he seems strong and healthy, his brooder is in the nineties and the room itself is in the 80's so I don't think he is too cold. I've been checking the temps of his food as well, start out with about 120 degree water, mix with the food, cool to about 105 and then feed him, unfortunately, since he is the only baby, I'm only mixing about a spoonful of formula at a time and it seems to cool pretty quickly, but I have just been putting the syringe in a cup of hot water if I feel it is getting to cool for him. His crop is also emptying just fine, it's just that he keeps sucking air into it. Can anyone give me some advice? I would be devastated if something happened to this little guy.