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Alexandrines have strong metabolism, if raised properly they are hard birds but if they are not cared properly in early 4 months specially they might not ge as healthy as most. I prefer keeping my Alexandrine chicks with their parents birds in box for atleast 2 months, this helps in avoiding situations like you have mentioned, parents feed their chicks with proper care and provide them warmth. You can find more details here <a href=”https://birdsbreeding.wordpress.com/alexandrine-parakeet/”>Alexandrine</a> You can see in images how the parent birds have properly filled their chick's crops. I hope it helps
I don't think you read through this thread, the OP was from Pakistan, and as such he bought his 1-month-old or younger Alexandrine baby from a mass bird breeder on the side of the road or at a "bird market", as is extremely common in the Middle East and in India. These mass-breeders have hundreds of parrots, usually some kind of Ringneck, and they just allow them to breed continuously all year and produce hundreds and hundreds of babies, which they literally cram into tiny little cages, dozens and dozens to a single cage, and they take them to the daily market or simply stand on the side of the road and sell them for the equivalent of a few dollars here in the US. USUALLY THESE BABIES ARE AT MOST 2 WEEKS OLD WHEN THEY ARE SOLD!!!
These poor people who only want to buy a young baby parrot to bond with and to have as a loving pet are lied to by these mass-breeders, they are told that "Feeding them formula is easy", and that "It's warm enough here that no special cage or heater is needed", and they tell them NOTHING ABOUT THE TEMPERATURE OF THE FORMULA THEY ARE FEEDING THESE BABIES!!! AND THIS IS USUALLY THE REASON THAT THESE PEOPLE'S BABIES DIE, BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST MIXING-UP FORMULA AT ROOM-TEMPERATURE WITH WATER AND FEEDING IT TO THE BABY BIRD WHO IS ONLY A FEW WEEKS OLD!
I bet in 95% of these posts, which are extremely common, the baby parrot dies due to the hand-feeding formula being far too cold, at room temperature instead of the required 104-110 degrees F...Also, they think that since it's "Hot" where they live that the babies don't need to be kept in a Brooder or any type of homemade-Brooder WITH A STABLE TEMPERATURE BETWEEN 87-95 DEGREES F AT ALL TIMES!!! Without the babies at the proper, stable temperature at all times, who don't usually even have all of their down feather yet, let alone their outer feathers, THEY CANNOT PROPERLY DIGEST THEIR FORMULA, AND WHAT FORMULA THEY DO DIGEST IS A WASTE BECAUSE THEIR BODIES ARE TOO COLD TO ABSORB ANY NUTRITION FROM IT...
Something that is usually not thought of by these people is that yes, these shady breeders don't use a Brooder to keep their babies in...BECAUSE THEY HAVE HUNDREDS OF THEM HUDDLED TOGETHER FOR HEAT!!! When you only have 1 or at most 2 babies they can't get that kind of heat!!! But the biggest cause of death is by-far the temperature of the formula they are feeding the babies being at room temperature, they don't even bother to buy or use a candy/cooking thermometer at all...And it kills their babies.
And the other 5% of these babies die from either aspirating formula into their lungs because the owner gets frustrated that they aren't eating the formula (because it's too cold), so they try to "force-feed" the baby, which kills them...OR...because they don't have access to proper hand-feeding formula or they don't bother to order or buy a commercially-sold hand-feeding formula, so they instead simply feed the baby bird CERALAC, a human baby formula that doesn't contain the proper nutrition for a baby bird, AND IS LOADED WITH IRON, WHICH IS TOXIC TO BIRDS IN HIGH QUANTITIES!!! So when they feed their babies CERELAC human baby formula, and their baby bird's start vomiting, they think it's something that requires an antibiotic, when in-fact it's actually the baby dying of IRON POISONING FROM THE CERELAC!!!
It's a very sad situation, and as SilverSage mentioned in this post, these breeders tell these people it's so easy and such, but they aren't telling these people just how many babies they have die every single day...These breeders literally have hundreds and hundreds of birds, so they can afford to lose a dozen a day, no issue...
