I am a total novice, I bought my first pair of African Grey breeders April 29, 2017 and had my first egg May 2017. They had three eggs, two hatched and when the youngest was about 21 days I started hand feeding them. I’m getting ready to start hand feeding another clutch in about ten days, same parents, laid three eggs, two hatched.
With that being said, I have NO experience with Electus, and my Greys are my first experience with parrots. I had no problems, but, I met a man that was within five hours that was willing to let me come for the day while he showed me how to hand feed the baby birds.
Have you ever fed baby birds formula before? I would think at six weeks they should be get ting pretty strong on their eating response. If you haven’t hand fed formula before do you have access to someone who is willing to teach you? Are you VERY DILIGENT in keeping to the schedule?
I thought many times I needed to have my head examined for taking on such a big job. I breast fed all my children so I wouldn’t have to mess around with bottles , washing, heating, and making formula. Here I was at 6am, 10, 2, 6 & 10:00pm mixing up formula at the proper temperature and feeding my birdies and then washing up the syringes and mixing bowls, sometimes I would be so tired and just want to go to bed but couldn’t!!!
So...if you have sticktoittivness, will do the job properly even when you don’t want to, have someone to show you the proper way to feed (maybe the breeder) then all I can say is it the MOST rewarding experience you will have if you are successful but you will be devistated if you aren’t. Good luck on whatever you decide