hand feeding

My 5 weeks old Alexandrine parrot swollowed plastic tube. I have 2 alex baby parrots. I am hand feeding them. About an hour ago, when they were taking their food, one of them suddenly swollowed the tube that is attached to the syringe. The tube is about 2 cm long. I tried searching tube around...

Can a parrot be "hand fed tame" if I start hand feeding formula at weaning stage? I've read that there are two stages to hand feeding parrots: 1) newborn hand feeding - which is separating them after certain number of days and feeding them formula. 2) weaning hand feeding - After they start...

Okay, I need some help here... Long story short, I thought I had two male quakers that got along well... well I have 1 male and 1 female and I found this out because they had 5 eggs... woot woot..... so all 5 eggs have hatched (their first cluch!) and only 2 remain alive now, I let her take...

Hi, I bought KEDDY (my first ever parrot) last week, he was 3 weeks old then. Seller told me to feed him 15 ml three times a day. Things went smooth for 5 days, then I thought as he is growing he probably needs more food so I contacted the seller again to confirm and he told me to start giving...

I've been feeding my 24 day old green wing macaw and have been following the directions on the Kaytee exact package. The problem is he or she weighs 10.7 oz which I believe translates to 303.4 grams. I am not totally sure that is within an acceptable weight range as I cannot find a growth chart...

a while back i got my furst breeding fischeri birds and they procided me with the sweetest chick. now at 4,5 weeks i started handfeeding her and it doesnt work out very well. ive never handfeeded before and its a mess - food all over the place all over me and all over my baby. obviously she...

hi everyone, when i came home from school today, my friend gave me a shoe box with a baby bird in it. I know not to take in fledgling birds, I wasn't there when they took it. At this point, it was 10:00 pm (i had career night at school) so it was too late to put it back, and too late to give it...

Recently brought home my son's new GC, The Mean Green Jellybean! Was told by the breeder she was down to 2 hand feedings and was doing well on solids... we're doing great with the hand feedings, but Beanie seems much more interested in them than the solids we're offering her! (Beans, potato...

Ziggy and Forest now have 5 babies! we're going to hand raise them.. we're started the oldest 2 already :) here are some pictures of the 2 that are hand feeding now:

Hi! I am currently hand feeding a 7 week old sun conure. Going great, he's a great eater and very easy to feed, eating 12cc three times a day. He's already a character, clumsy and curious. I plan to finish out this week with the hand feedings, and start offering him some fruit, softened pellets...