Sometimes you can give the fact that we have to raise a bird to hand. This has been my case this season. A 18-day chicken is pulled from the nest and initially is fed by the parents. The next day the father is engaged in pursuit, snatch a few feathers and both parents should stop feeding.
takes refuge inside the bird feeder where I note that despite their incessant calls do not get any food and if you dare to go get the odd sting as much.
In cases like this there is no choice but to intervene.
I took the bird from the cage of the parents and placed in a small cage with perches close together where the chicken could do well, as it flew just had no command of space. To Alimet have to resort to special syringe and needle as shown in the photo.
The paste I use is a commercial powder paste for hand-rearing, but There are many recipes that make up better and stronger pulp. In this case I pulled out what was nearby. To make the dough is used warm water to make a mixture that is neither too dry nor too strong, and let stand 10 minutes before feeding the bird.
The bird did not accept the syringe and had to open its beak and insert gently rounded tip of the needle gently until the crop, slowly introducing 1 cc at each feeding.
After taking off the belly is swollen, the digestion of that amount lasts about two hours, the bird received 7 daily doses. In some cases have fallen sparrow nest I bring my children after the first shots the bird accepts the needle vocuntariamente, but this little canary in Mozambique did not act well and I had to open his beak to the force until it started to eat pasta on its own.
Since then apply the usual weaning recipes.
Eventually the bird has gone ahead and eat seeds well, this is its appearance. Is recovering lost feathers have joy and veveza.
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