I’m so weird, I save all little things, such as insects, small birds that I feed with my mouth and I want to pick –up all street animals. My dream is, to live on a farm and have lots and lots of animals, pigs, ducks, horses, sheep, cows and chickens and much more! I have the greatest respect for plants! So weird! I even save ants…
I have been breeding Cockateils for four years now. Last year I changed from cage breeding to aviary colony breeding. Last year I had problems with ants getting into their nesting boxes and eating the babies!! I’ve tried many things. Anyone who has personally had this problem while breeding birds. PLEAE HELP!
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This morining I was getting in my car and found a bird in the grass floppin around with ants all over him.So I brought him inside and got the ants off of him and made like a little nest out of hay and and got a cardboard box and put in inside of it then got a piece of cardboard and put it over the box like a roof.so he would have some shade,then gave him some water and wild bird food.I dont know what kind he is but he is small and black.I culdnt just leave him there so ants could eat him.So what else can I do to make sure he survives and his leg gets better?Thanks in advance.
Yeah It turned out he was a grey catbird,and he died,dont know how he was eating and even started flying a little bit off the ground.But then I walked outside for not even 5min.And when I came back he wasnt breathing anymore but his eyes where still open.But at least I tryed.Thanks everyone who ansered.
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So, my aunt found this baby bird yesterday evening on the ground. It was getting eaten by ants. She brought it inside and made a nest for him with a small cardboard box and some tissue with a warm water bottle underneath. We have determined that the nest is somewhere in this very tall tree above where we found the bird. So, the bird is tiny tiny. Maybe an inch and a half long. He is fuzzy bluish with small feathers only on his wings. His eyes aren’t open yet. So he’s probably a couple days old. He only makes a barely audible chirp when he opens his mouth to be fed. We have been feeding him watery oatmeal bits and warm soaked chopped up cat food by tweezers. We do this about every 25 minutes. He has been pooping too. Through the night we kept him in the warmest room in the house with a hat over the box. Today, we’ve been keeping him up on this shelf thing on the porch with the hat still. We tried calling anyone we could look up, but no answer. We live near Fayetteville, NC. So my question is, what things could I do to help this baby bird more? Advice please? Thanks!! Also, any name suggestions? I don’t know the sex yet, but a cute name could go either way. He seems like a boy to me. =)
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So, my aunt found this baby bird yesterday evening on the ground. It was getting eaten by ants. She brought it inside and made a nest for him with a small cardboard box and some tissue with a warm water bottle underneath. We have determined that the nest is somewhere in this very tall tree above where we found the bird. So, the bird is tiny tiny. Maybe an inch and a half long. He is fuzzy bluish with small feathers only on his wings. His eyes aren’t open yet. He only makes a barely audible chirp when he opens his mouth to be fed. We have been feeding him watery oatmeal bits and warm soaked chopped up cat food by tweezers. We do this about every 25 minutes. He has been pooping too. Through the night we kept him in the warmest room in the house with a hat over the box. Today, we’ve been keeping him up on this shelf thing on the porch with the hat still. We tried calling anyone we could look up, but no answer. We live near Fayetteville, NC. So my question is, what things could I do to help this baby bird more? Advice please? Thanks!!
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Inside my roof there’s a birds nest and every few weeks newborn birds fall. i give them bread crumbs and water and put them in a box but I cant always do that because there’s a lot of strong wind and the bird falls out. for example today I found a bird in front of my home and it leg was broken.I put it in a box and gave it bread crumbs and water and left to go somewhere i thought it had died and decided to wait till the morning to see it was really dead and when i came back it was outside of the box which meant it was either alive and managed to get out or the wind had blown it out. Also many cats live in my area and one time a a baby bird died and ants came and well took care of it. Can someone tell me a place that i can call to get the nest removed and/or made sure they wont come back?
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there has been a mother bird in my patio building a nest fir around the past two or three weeks, and two days ago, the eggs hatched. now, this morning, i found the two baby birds on the ground. the mother is gone, and the nest is broken. one of them had blood around it, and it is for sure dead because there were ants on it and everything.but, the other baby bird, is still alive, thank god. but it`s eyes are still closed shut, and it only makes little movements but it cannot walk or fly. i`ve been watching it, and it tries to fly by moving it`s wings, but it has not been successful. what can i do to keep it alive? i have no idea what kind of bird it is, but i`m in san diego, CA if that helps. please, help me, what can i do to save it? what can i feed it, how do i feed it? please, help save a bird?
and please don`t tell me that it`s too late, even if it is. i really want to save it.
here is a picture of the mother that i took a few days ago. can this help find out what kind the bird is?
http://www.dropshots.com/photos/243354/20070403/113757.jpg
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