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baby birds crop has air?

Posted on April 21, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

ok this is the first time i have noticed this the baby is almost 4 days old it is a baby zebra finch so its very small

I relized that during feeding the crop was filling with air and it barly had any food in it mostly air of course the lack of food was because i stoped feeding it right away when i noticed it
I do not feed with a suring because it would hurt the baby because it is so tiny im am feeding it with a flat end tooth pick im using the methiod called spooning

could the babys crop inflat because it is swolling air not food?
i barly put any food on the tooth pick so it will have less of a chance of breathing in any liquid

i am feeding th baby what the adult finches eat except i put the food into a coffie grinder to turn it into pouder so i can mix it with water to make it in a formula.

I feed the baby when the crop emtys about every 2 hours i feed it untill its crop is almost full i dont want to take a chane of streatching

is there a way i could relise the ai
hurry i need to feed it!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bird nest problem… help!?

Posted on April 5, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

A mother sparrow began building a nest by a fan end outside. It blows out air every time I use it for cooking in my kitchen. There are no eggs in the nest yet. When I was unaware that there was a nest there, I turned on the fan and the mother got spooked and flew away. Her nest blew away as well. I put a box over where the nest used to be, but then the bird began to build another nest in the box! I love birds and love seeing their nests and babies, but I would want the babies to grow up in a safer location than on my deck near a fan, a window, a grill, andthe hustle and bustle of my family. I haven’t seen the mother, but she worked on her nest in the box when I was not there. If she builds her nest in the box, should I relocate it, or call an animal refuge to come get it? Thanks!

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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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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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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

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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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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