weaning

HELP is my new jenday conure sick or just stressed!!?😖 hello everyone 🙌🏻 it’s been two days with me hand feeding my baby jenday he never even seems hungry I just type of force him on eating (his crop gets full every time) but what scares me is how quiet he is & rarely makes lowtone clicking...

Hello everyone my macaw is about 2 and a half month old right now, at what age should I start weaning the bird on adult food ? ,fruits etc….

My baby ringneck will not eat, I want to clarify that i am fairly expirienced with handfeeding parrots but this is new to me for context So my irns had two babies one had splay legs so i took it for hand feeding about 3 weeks ago. 4 days ago when i was checking the other baby in the nest, the...

So I just bought what I was told to be a 4 week old sun conure. The breeders had fully weaned ones but they were insane and didn’t even like the breeder let alone me. They also offered the newborn which was irresponsible on their part and my dumbass took it cause I wanted to raise it. I’ve...

Hey everyone! I'm new here so I apologize for any mistakes. 🙏 I got a GCC a week ago, it is my first green cheek, and first not fully weaned bird I've got. He started eating seeds and solids around 10 days ago, breeder claims he's over a month old, I could say about 6-7weeks now. For the last...

Hi everyone! I am a new parrot parent and we just brought home our 4-month-old GCC Bruno 3 days ago. The breeder went ahead and sent him home with us because he is "just about weaned" and he drip-fed well for me when I visited him there. Right now I am offering him feedings twice a day and he is...

I think this is a great link for anyone looking to raise chicks - Maybe Admins can turn it into a sticky...

Hello, I've read a lot about weaning, in this forum and on internet. But due to this post and specially of this comment of SilverSage, saying to start to offer weaning food to a 3 weeks old cockatiel. (At the begining I though It was a cockatoo) "You should be offering weaning foods. Fresh...

Hi everybody, I am surprisingly new to this forum, and I say so because I have been the proud owner of a cockatiel for 6 years without being aware of your existence :52: I seriously need some advice and a friend suggested me this forum. Two days ago our family acquired a new member in the form...

I have Alexandrine parrot of 3.5 months.After the kaytee feed i was giving him mashed fruits and vegetables like banana,apple,sweet potato,carrot and cucumber.He was eating all this by my hand till today. Today when i tried to feed the same he is not eating it. Any suggestions to which other...

Hi everyone! I bought a pink and grey galah baby 6 days ago. His about 11-12 weeks old and is still spoon fed twice a day, he keep making these weird noises around me 24/7 is he starving or just acting like a baby I don’t know what to do the Breeder wasn’t very helpful I have no clue when to...

Hello All I am new here. I am the founder/director of Environmental Nonprofit Planet Rehab. We do a lot of Rescue work and will be shortly moving to Panama (Bocas del Toro) to work with protecting Endangered Species. SOOO - yesterday I got a call about an injured parrot at a Retirement...

Howdy everyone! I was reading through some threads the other day and kind of got lost in them for awhile. Now I can't recall where I read this, but saw that folks in the Netherlands are considered to have vastly superior practices with regard to weaning baby birds than, say, Americans and their...

Hello, my wife and I are relatively new bird parents. We adopted a Severe Macaw about a year ago and he has been doing very well. We have just added a new baby to our flock, an Congo African Grey we call Chilee. We acquired him from a local breeder who has loads of excellent reviews, fives...

Hi parrot lovers, I'm a miserable owner of a 5 months old scarlet macaw, Amon, living in Skopje, Macedonia. Please, read this part, before you decide to snap at me for not leaving the job of weaning, for an experienced person: My bird was supposed to be imported, and fully taken care of by a...

So Shorty is 11 1/2 weeks. Almost 3 months :bounce3:. He is getting way more active and polite. He used to make a bunch of noise while i got his food ready now he just plays around or follows me while i mix his formula. He loves his flight suit & is very patient while i put it on and even lifts...

Hi! I thought i would take a moment and introduce myself, I'm Montana & i have a new baby Blue & Gold Macaw. This is my first macaw but not my first time hand feeding. I used to raise ducklings and fostered a 5 year old african grey for about 6 months. I'm super excited about my baby!! His name...

Hi! I thought i would take a moment and introduce myself, I'm Montana & i have a new baby Blue & Gold Macaw. This is my first macaw but not my first time hand feeding. I used to raise ducklings and fostered a 5 year old african grey for about 6 months. I'm super excited about my baby!! His name...

Hi! So I will try to keep this concise. I grew up with birds (Quakers and African Grey), but its been many years. I am new to the Eclectus breed. I was looking to adopt a bird here in UAE (Abu Dhabi, I'm an American expat), but couldn't find any and then I saw this adorable Ekkie in a pet souq...

Recently got my Jenday Conure boy, Tempest, from a parrot specialty store. They claimed he was handfed, and I do believe he was, but I'm wondering if he was force weaned. He hatched May 3rd, and was considered weaned on July 16th, that seems a little quick. I feel like I see most Jendays weaning...

Can weaning ages vary? I'm 99% positive that NO TWO BIRDS are the same, and I'm getting some grief from people on a parrot facebook group about my new bird. I brought home my new kakariki last night. She will be 6 weeks old in 2 days. The breeder was raising her and weaning her for me and...

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...

I haven't been on here for a bit so first here is a quick update on Raiden, I found out he is a she. She's grown up quite a bit since my last post. It seems her feathers have changed colors a bit, she used to be green on her head and back and now is more of an orange green mix (I guess their...

Hi everyone, Approximately three months ago i bought my cockatiel "Cutey" who i thinkkk is female from what the avian vet told me - she just speculated. She is 10 months old with grey with a yellow crest and faded orange cheeks. Today i bought another cockatiel i called "Ashes" who is grey all...

Hello, you guys had helped me a while back with Raiden, but I had some more questions. He or she is currently 84 days old (12 weeks) today and I am aware that this is around the time they start weaning and trying to fly. I was wondering, how much am I supposed to feed him because he won't take...

Tomorrow I am bringing home a 3 week old Pacific male parrotlet. I have a 2 year old female and was wanting some ideas on what would supplement the formula best. I have heard egg supplements and millet. But I also heard not to give millet until they're weaned. At what age are cuttle bones ok to...

Hi everyone, I am new to parrot forums. I have a 18 week old (4.5 months) male eclectus parrot named Teddy (aka Big Ted). I have been his mother since he was 9 weeks old. He was on 4 feeds a day then. I have reduced him to 2 feeds per day, 15mls morning feed (half a feed) and he gets 30mls...

Hi, I got an Alexandrine parrot baby (2 months old) five days ago, so now it's about 9 weeks old. When I got it the breeder told me that it was on two 25ml handfeeds a day (one morning and one night) and to keep feeding it for another three weeks. The breeder also gave me the formula and...

Hello, My name is Lauren. I am new to this forum. I have a 11 week old Sun Conure named Mango, that I got from a breeder at 8 weeks of age. I have several questions reguarding him. Here is the whole story and am hoping for some experienced answers and advise. I had a lovebird that I hand...

Hi there, to sum up i assume my bird is ready to wean, but she is only 10 weeks old, i thought this happens a few weeks from now, like 12-14 weeks old. So my alex Frankie is approaching 10 weeks old now, and I've been handfeeding since i purchased it (I was taught how to handfeed by a...

Does anyone know when or how to know when the bird is weaning? My Catalina macaw refused handfed this morning at the first time. I tried about 15 mins but my bird didn't want to get the food from syringe. My bird is about 11 weeks old and on 2 times handfed (96cc x 2) per day. I left pellet...

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...

:green2: Hey everyone! I recently purchased a lovebird from a breeder. He is just about 7 weeks old (Breeder had explained and taught me how to hand feed since the bird is just starting to be weaned & gave me some feed mix) Anyhow, I LOVE this bird! Apparently it didn't take very long before...

My peach-fronted conure is now almost five months old, and refuses to eat anything other than her formula. She also seems to a bit "off" to me (compared to my other birds), I don't know how else to describe it other than something's not quite right; she's a bit unbalanced, falls often, and is...