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Feeding a baby cockatiel

Posted on December 21, 2011 by admin| 3 Comments

I have 2 adult cockatiels, one male and one female. They mated and hatched 3 eggs. The mother will continue to sit on all her eggs, and the male will sit on his bunch of eggs, but every time one hatched, the mother pushed the baby out of the nest and won’t care for it no matter what I do. The first one and the third one died, so I’m caring for the second one myself. I have a nest in a box, a heat lamp and I’m feeding it every 1-2 hours with baby bird formula in a tiny dropper. It’s been doing just fine for about 4 days, it’s growing, getting stronger and eating the formula easier. My main concern about it is every time I feed it, it swallows a large amount of air and sits in it’s crop for a little while and makes a large bubble in the crop. It says on the formula container to feed the baby till it’s crop is filled with formula, but it gets half filled with air and half with formula. When it gets filled with air I’m afraid to feed it any more because I don’t know how much it’s little crop can hold. Is this air swallowing thing normal? Should I feed it more when it does that or keep doing what I’m doing? What should I do???

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Tagged adult, air, baby, baby bird, Cockatiel, crop, dropper, eggs, feeding, feeding a baby, formula, half, heat lamp, mother, nest, Swallows, time

Projectile velocity: This is a real world question.?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I use 4 mortar like cannons to propel a projectile. Attached to the projectile is a net. The net is shot over birds to trap and relocate them. The motive force for the projectiles is compressed air at 120psi. The air is discharged into the mortar barrels simultaneously. I’ve been told that if I lengthen the barrel, I will be able to obtain greater projectile velocity. What are the parameters that would control the velocity? How can I calculate the optimal barrel length? I’m thinking with a short barrel, a lot of the compressed air escapes from the end of the barrel as the projectile leaves. Thus energy wasted. It seems like the optimal barrel length would be when the compressed air pressure has dropped to atmospheric pressure at the point at which the projectile exits the barrel. Assume a large tank feeds each mortar barrel and there is a negligible drop in pressure during the discharge. An electronically controlled orifice of diameter D opens for duration T.

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Tagged air, air escapes, air pressure, atmospheric pressure, barrel, birds, cannons, diameter, duration, length, mortar, motive force, net, optimal, orifice, parameters, pressure, Projectile, projectile velocity, projectiles, real world, tank, velocity, world, world question

Since it is Sunday, how do you feel about this quote to live a Peaceful life?

Posted on May 12, 2011 by admin| 4 Comments

25″Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
28″And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Have a nice day!!
God Bless
Peace and Love

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Since it is Sunday, how do you feel about this quote to live a Peaceful life?

Posted on May 12, 2011 by admin| Leave a comment

Have a nice day!!
God Bless
Peace and Love

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Tagged air, barns, birds of the air, body, clothes, father, Food, heavenly father, hour, life, Peaceful, peaceful life, quote, Sunday

my female parakeet wants to mate but my male bird doesnt know what to do..?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by admin| 3 Comments

she’s been sticking her tail up in the air and he was trying to hop on but not sure how to. does it take awhile for the male parakeet to get the hang of it?

also i took out the stuffing in their nest because i heard parakeets lay eggs on the bare floor. should i keep it bare or put seeds on the bottom or something? i noticed my female parakeet was putting seeds on the floor.

im just wondering how long the mating “training” goes on before they actually start mating. they started showing signs of wanting to mate about a week ago, although she was getting into the nesting box all winter, the male parakeet is going over there now but hasnt went in yet.
we bought him about a year ago, so he’s over a year old

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Tagged air, Bird, doesnt, hop, male bird, mate, Parakeet, Tail

Christians, How has the Lord discipled you through blessing?

Posted on April 16, 2011 by admin| 4 Comments

Scripture tells us, “look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?”

Admittedly, i’ve been too worried about my life, as to where the money is going to be coming from for this project, this event, this bill, ect. But tonight I experienced what is a testimony of a demonstration of God’s love towards a sinner. Tonight, I was sampling a meal for a party I will be having at a very fine Italian restaurant (Lord willing). The owner, who is also the head chef ended up allowing me to eat 3 entrees (samplers) and 2 salads, FREE of charge! And on top of that, at the table next to me, there was a Christian couple. Long story short, they graciously sowed a love offering of $100 into my family and the Lord’s work in our ministry. I’m so deflated by His graciousness, and at the same time ashamed at my lack of trust in Him. The Lord truly is our PROVIDER, we shall not want.

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Tagged air, barns, birds of the air, blessing, christians, father, heavenly father, Lord, scripture