How to bring up a baby bird

How to bring up a baby bird

It is often possible to see the baby bird (or absolutely young bird) sitting on a grass or the earth in the summer. Children, and at times even adults feel sorry for the poor creature, take away and carry away home. Most often it is just baby birds who learn to fly, it is not necessary to touch them, parents perfectly know where their children, control a situation and feed. Often the baby bird perishes in caring human hands because people are not able to treat him. It is the best of all not to select baby birds. But if your children nevertheless brought a birdie home, or, for example, she broke a wing, then you should undertake care of the kid and to bring up.

It is required to you

  • - small sack for a sogrev;
  • - tweezers;
  • - caterpillars or flies;
  • - nest.

Instruction

1. If a baby bird still naked and unfledged, he needs to be warmed constantly. It is the best of all to place him in a small sack (knitted sock, a fur mitten, etc.) and to carry at first on itself. Baby birds need temperature of 38 degrees.

2. It is necessary often, each thirty-forty minutes to feed such kid by means of tweezers. It is necessary to feed with caterpillars, flies and front sights, little spiders, worms, larvae of bugs. It is possible to add the hard-boiled egg or forcemeat. A forage will be necessary much therefore try to look for constantly it or to buy in pet-shop of larvae of bugs – a flour worm.

3. Most often baby birds of a crow or a daw get to the house to people, it is the simplest to bring up them as they with pleasure eat the soaked roll, cottage cheese, pieces of meat or forcemeat in combination with live insects. If the baby bird of a martin or a swallow got to you, then it is not enough chances to bring up them, these birds insectivorous, and you will not be able just to provide them necessary quantity of a forage.

4. When the baby bird a little grows up, for him it is possible to make a warm nest (for example, in an aquarium or in a box). It is possible to feed him through slightly less often - each one and a half-two hours. Usually hungry baby bird, having only scented presence of the person, itself opens widely a beak. If he not really got hungry, then it is necessary to give to him the command – just try to make a loud sharp sound! The baby bird immediately will open a beak.

5. While the baby bird does not eat independently, it is not necessary to give to drink to him. Just give him the damp forage (soaked in water bread and forcemeat perfectly for this purpose approach). When it begins itself is, put for it in a drinking bowl water if he wants, he will drink. It is dangerous to give to drink to a little baby bird, he can choke on water.

6. Be not afraid to overfeed a baby bird, at birds very fast metabolism, and food they need much. Also conform to the rule that it is better to feed gradually, but it is frequent, than seldom and it is a lot of. In the latter case the baby bird can die of hunger.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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