Help!!! Baby canaries abandoned!!
- Thread starter Alexrod15
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Do you have an avian vet you can take them too?
Featheredsamurai
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If they abandoned the babies you need to start hand feeding them and get a parrot heat lamp(with a dimmer!) to keep them warm. Contact your avian vet, or a local avian vet and ask them for advice too or if they can do the hand feeding for you.
It's critical that you move as fast as you can, baby birds don't last too long without food.
It's critical that you move as fast as you can, baby birds don't last too long without food.
Kiran
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You have to feed them asap. Back when I had the same problem, and no access to pet food (I live in an asian country), I bought children's food (Nestle Cerelac Baby Food wheat apple stage 1) mixed it with clean water proportinately and fed the babies through a 20ml syringe. Note that the temperature of the food has to be exactly 104F. If it's under 100F(cold), it can choke them, if it's over 106F it can burn their crop. Use a digital thermometer to check quickly and accurately. If this is the first time you're facing this problem, and have no prior experience, it's possible the babies won't survive. Good luck to you.
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if the baby canaries are under a day old, they will be fine. mom's don't feed them until the next day after hatching, as they consume they egg yolk inside the egg before they hatch.
that keeps them alive for the next 24 hours or so.
why do you think she has left the nest??
that keeps them alive for the next 24 hours or so.
why do you think she has left the nest??
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