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I found a wild baby bird and it just died, does anyone know why?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

ok i was in Greely, Colorado the other day and a mother black bird was kicking her baby otu of the nest repeatedly after we put it back in the nest. So i brought it back to my house, Peyton, Colorado and it did fine. That is until about 2 days after ive had it here, it was eating and jumping around and stuff but then today i came in to feed again (eggs scrambled and finley smashed up with water and some baby formula) and it was laying on its side (this morning i noticed it had stopped chirping completley and was only making a weasing noise) i had no idea what to do so i hopped on the internet and tryed to find what i should dom and found nothing. He died about 15 minutes after i had seen him on his side. He was about 2-3 weeks old only had a few feathers and pink still showing, I would like to know why this happened. I beleive it could have been a respitory problem judging by the loss of chirping, but i had a heat lamp over him. *This was a BlackBird by the way* ANY ADVICE NEEDED!

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my broody hen is sitting eggs in the coup ive moved the other birds but will she be ok in the nest box?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

do i need to try and move her and chicks to ground level after the hatch and will i need a heat lamp with a broody?

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my broody hen is sitting eggs in the coup ive moved the other birds but will she be ok in the nest box?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

do i need to try and move her and chicks to ground level after the hatch and will i need a heat lamp with a broody?

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How do I care for a baby bird?

Posted on April 6, 2012 by admin| 12 Comments

While i was waiting for my mom to pick me up from youth group I found a baby bird with no feathers. It looked like it was recently hatched. I thought it was dead because it was on the steps on its back but when i touched it it moved. So I brought it home,(after i looked for the nest, not successful) and put it in a cardboard box on toilet paper under a heat lamp. That was Wednesday and it has now been 3 days and it is very frisky. I am feeding it small pieces of worms, but what else should i feed it? And what would b the best way to water it? From a syringe? Is there anything else i could do to help it grow and not die. I know baby birds are hard to hand raise and most die, but I wanna try. Please no mean comments or anything, only helpful tips. Thanks!
Rachael – it was getting dark and it is a tiny feather-less fledgling on concrete steps on its back. I doubt it’s mother was coming for it.
but don’t mothers feed them worms? And i can’t seem to find info on fledglings and what kind it is! :O
oops i meant hatching :)
do i use wet dog food or dry? is cat food alright to?

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Found a featherless baby bird- what do i do?!?

Posted on February 24, 2012 by admin| 16 Comments

My cat caught a baby bird in her mouth without actually biting it and I found it in my yard like an hour later and it was still breathing normally and everything but was obviously out of it’s nest. I have no idea where the nest is, and I cannot care for it by putting it under a box/heat lamp/etc. because I have 2 cats and do not have the necessary materials or time to care for it properly. Where can I take it? I don’t think it’s even opened it’s eyes yet and I have no idea what to do with the poor little thing. It’s currently in a small box with “nest” materials outside on my porch away from other cats and animals and bugs and it’s 85 degrees outside so it won’t freeze or anything. But where can I take it? Please help!

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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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How do I heat my small aviary bird box?

Posted on June 27, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I am building a small outside aviary for two pairs of celestial parrotlets that i hope to breed. I will be putting a 2ft x 1ft box in each aviary made from medium ply wood to house a budgie nesting box. Do I need to use a heat lamp aswell ? if so what wattage and is the box large enough so as not to over heat them.

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