Just bought Grey and BNG Macaw home

[Alex.Rio]

Hello,
Myself manish from India. New to this forum.
I had conures, Irma before.

Recently bought African grey (Alex) and BNG Macaw(Rio) home.
Both are around 4months old. Feeding them Kaytee hand feeding twice a day and fresh fruits, vegetables.

Will upload pics soon.

 

[MikeyTN]

Welcome to the forum!!!

Have you had hand feeding experience in the past??? You have one kind of Kaytee hand feeding formula or two different kinds?

 

[Alex.Rio]

Welcome to the forum!!!

Have you had hand feeding experience in the past??? You have one kind of Kaytee hand feeding formula or two different kinds?

Hello Mikey, I have hand feeding experience. I had been hand feeding my sun conjures, as they were just 50days when I bought them.

I at present having normal Kaytee hand feeding. Already ordered Kaytee for macaw and must reach me by next week.

I have also ordered Harrison high potency coarse and fine for my birds.

Please do advice if I am doing anything wrong.

 

[MikeyTN]

So far your doing what you should be doing. Except the African Grey and B&G Macaw will most likely require a longer hand feeding period then the Sun Conure you've hand fed. As long as you understand the basics of letting the crop sac empty before feeding and the temperature of the formula you should be fine. Also the jerking motion of the bigger birds would be stronger too, so be careful how you insert the syringe if that's what your using to hand feed cause you can easily poke them in the back of their throat and cause internal bleeding.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask, I only ask cause most of us here do not recommend folks to get an unweaned baby. There's many folks that comes in here after purchasing an unweaned baby and run into a lot of issues that could have been prevented if they just waited for a fully weaned baby.

 

[Lisamarie]

Aww that pic soooo cute