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Can you send me a link for the syringe spoons. TIA
 
I'm not sure how to do that. If you do a product search on Amazon for baby bird feeding syringes they come up with other stuff. They are 10 cc syringes wirh little white plastic mini spoon attachments.
 
That's them but the ones I got were smaller. It doesn't matter because you control how much goes into the little spoon and the babies eat at their own rate which is much safer than using a syringe directly into their mouths. It was a game changer for me because I used a full sized plastic spoon melt-bended into a funnel and that worked but it was very messy and a lot of food was wasted all over the baby.
 
Now that I look at mine they are 20 Cc too but I don't feed by measuring the amounts because even with this product quite a bit gets wasted. I feed as much as the baby wants until it's crop is rounded but still soft. They can overfeed, regurgitate and aspirate if you fill the crop too full. Its a good idea to weigh the babies before and after feeding to find out how much they ate but trying to adhere to a strict time and volume schedule can be a mistake. Parent birds feed small amounts when the babies beg. They sleep between feedings. I never wanted my babies to cry for food and not get fed because I thought it would harm the trust and cause feeding stress. When they first hatch their crops are tiny and the formula is runny, so the crop empties pretty fast. Every two hours I would feed them round the clock. As their crops get bigger they can go longer.
 

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