hand feeding

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, I want to buy a parrotlet. I tried searching for hand fed ones but unfortunately this period they only have parrot fed ones. My question is, can a parrotlet that has not been hand fed be tamed? Talking about parrotlets that are about 2-3 months old so they can eat on their own...

Please bear with my long story. I have a month and 2 weeks (approx.) old Green Cheek Conure baby. Before getting her, I didn't know that the breeder used to directly crop-feed her which technically left her no experience of handfeeding and actually tasting the food. Moreover, I didn't know the...

Hi there! New here. I’ve been an animal lover my whole life and recently got into birds! I have a little experience hand-rearing birds, but this is my first cockatiel. I got her around 4 days old, eyes closed. I’ve had her for about a month now. She’s an adorable little bird, loves attention and...

I just was able to get them both on my finger at the same time! They were there for awhile and I think they’re starting to enjoy when I’m around, I’m also going to order some new toys so they’ll be extra happy, here’s pictures of them when it was happening.

How do you guys recommend weaning Indian Ringnecks and what age is okay to start? First time I'm handfeeding this species. He/she is currently 5weeks old and I've been hand raising for 3 weeks now. I have 4 birds I'm currently raising, two different pearled cockatiels and 2 Indian Ringnecks...

Hi all, I have a pair of peach faced lovebirds who are currently producing their first clutch with me. Both are displaying the correct nesting and mate feeding behaviours appropriately, and eggs have been laid every other day no issue with there being three so far. The birds have been observed...

What can I Hand-Feed my Baby Cockatiels? Hello guys, :rainbow1: Please I need to know what can I Hand-Feed my Baby Cockatiels, Can I prepare a formula at home (a natural one) using grains, beans ...etc instead of the hand-feeding Commercial Formulas like Nutribird A18-A19-A21, Exact, Kiki...

Hello there, I need advice.. I recently bought a blue and gold macaw from a breeder (about 3ish months old) the problem is that I am inexperienced at the moment and I had little to no help from the breeder at all which I initially thought was gonna walk me through the whole process of raising...

Hi All.. I recently brought home a Jenday conure.:orange: It was 45 days old baby then.. Now it is almost 60 days old. I am hand feeding it with a Pet's life handfeeding formula (weaning food). I have fed only apple other than the weaning food. He/she was kept in a box with wood shavings when I...

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...

So I recently got into breeding zebra finches for the past year and a half now and even though I have had many clutches, I have never had parents throwing out their babies. I found one in the water bowl dish and literally screamed in horror and wanted to cry, it just broke my heart. I’ve hand...

Hey guys, My name is Jess and I got my baby Sun Conure, Sammy, about a week ago. I've done a lot of research on this little guy, and I would like to make sure I'm on the right track so I can give him the best upbringing I can. Sammy is 9 weeks old and hand fed with formula. I have started...

Hi everyone, I own a 9 week old sun conure named Sammy. I thought it would be a good idea to join because I love to learn all about conures. I'm so excited to see him grow and learn, he has so much personality already!

Hi there, I am adopting an 8wk old SC cockatoo and wanting to know the ideal frequency and volume at which a commercial formula+probiotic should be fed? The current owner says the bird has about 50-60mL of this 5 to 6 times a day but this seems an awful lot to me? Thanks, Grace

Hello all! My name is Chanelle. Me and my boyfriend picked up our 6 week old Green Cheek Conure yesterday, and even though we did research for almost a year beforehand, I'm finding myself asking a lot of questions. Raffi is still being hand fed, although he's not eating the same way that I...

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...

Does this looks like an empty crop? I dont think it does. I got two baby conures that a person cannot take care of them anymore. When I got home I noticed one of the birds had his crop empty and the other one did not. It seems like one of them is not digesting the food as he is supposed to. I...

This is my first time posting on the forum, so i apologize if I make any mistakes! I just brought home a baby sun conure (hatched mid-June) from a breeder a couple days ago, and she still needs to be hand-fed formula 3 times a day. The breeder showed me how to do it, but I'm still over-the-top...

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I bought a baby gc conure two days ago; he is supposed to be hand fed. There seems to be partial truth to this, because he wasn't fully mature when I got him, and I still have to spoon feed him once or twice per day. (he readily accepts it) What I don't understand is his fear of me, and his...

My 5 weeks old Alexandrine parrot swollowed plastic tube. I have 2 alex baby parrots. I am hand feeding them. About an hour ago, when they were taking their food, one of them suddenly swollowed the tube that is attached to the syringe. The tube is about 2 cm long. I tried searching tube around...

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...

Okay, I need some help here... Long story short, I thought I had two male quakers that got along well... well I have 1 male and 1 female and I found this out because they had 5 eggs... woot woot..... so all 5 eggs have hatched (their first cluch!) and only 2 remain alive now, I let her take...

Hi, I bought KEDDY (my first ever parrot) last week, he was 3 weeks old then. Seller told me to feed him 15 ml three times a day. Things went smooth for 5 days, then I thought as he is growing he probably needs more food so I contacted the seller again to confirm and he told me to start giving...

I've been feeding my 24 day old green wing macaw and have been following the directions on the Kaytee exact package. The problem is he or she weighs 10.7 oz which I believe translates to 303.4 grams. I am not totally sure that is within an acceptable weight range as I cannot find a growth chart...

a while back i got my furst breeding fischeri birds and they procided me with the sweetest chick. now at 4,5 weeks i started handfeeding her and it doesnt work out very well. ive never handfeeded before and its a mess - food all over the place all over me and all over my baby. obviously she...

hi everyone, when i came home from school today, my friend gave me a shoe box with a baby bird in it. I know not to take in fledgling birds, I wasn't there when they took it. At this point, it was 10:00 pm (i had career night at school) so it was too late to put it back, and too late to give it...

Recently brought home my son's new GC, The Mean Green Jellybean! Was told by the breeder she was down to 2 hand feedings and was doing well on solids... we're doing great with the hand feedings, but Beanie seems much more interested in them than the solids we're offering her! (Beans, potato...

Ziggy and Forest now have 5 babies! we're going to hand raise them.. we're started the oldest 2 already :) here are some pictures of the 2 that are hand feeding now:

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...