Baby birds hatch from eggs blind people, they are covered with rare down or at all goals and are incapable to eat independently. The entire period of finding of baby birds in a nest and several weeks after its leaving the parents bring them all new portions of a forage. Independently to grow up a baby bird, he should devote about 20 days of the life completely.
Until, as the baby bird will begin to be fed independently, care for it will occupy a quarter of each hour. During daylight hours he needs to be fed him before full saturation each 20 minutes. To understand whether the baby bird is full, it is simple – having gorged on, he will cease to elicit a forage, opening a mouth.
Cultivation of baby birds of owls, predators, duck, chicken - less complex business. At these birds less intensive metabolism, and many of them are born ready to independent life.
Features of feeding of choristersSpecial attention should be paid to structure of food. It is important to remember that most of choristers bring up baby birds insects. If the adopted child treats songbirds, he should be fed with the same, than adult insectivorous birds eat: larvae of flies, flour hearts, ant cocoons and also cottage cheese, carrots and egg. It is worth to remember about mineral and vitamin supplements. It is possible to grow up baby birds, raising them some ant cocoons, however on one egg it will not be possible to grow up them.
It is convenient to serve food from tweezers. Already from the first feeding it is necessary to achieve that the pet independently opened a beak. For this purpose at present of tweezers it is necessary to stir up a nest or to touch with tweezers beak corners, head plumage. Since 15-day age, sterns scatter on a cage bottom. When the baby bird learns to peck the scattered food, it is possible to establish a feeding trough in a cage. But stop feeding from tweezers of a baby bird, only when he will learn to gorge on to satiety. From this point it needs more spacious cage in which it is possible to fly and run.
Baby birds of a falcon, sparrow horned owl and hawk should be fed up the slaughtered daily chickens or bird's meat.
Features of feeding of vyyurkovyBaby birds of family vyyurkovy (a greenfinch, a bullfinch, a goldfinch, a common linnet) will manage to be brought up only by means of other vyyurkovy birds. It is connected with the fact that the food brought by parents is mechanically processed in a beak and is moistened with the saliva containing enzymes. Without it digestion at baby birds is not developed. It is possible to grow up a baby bird vyyurkovy by means of the cultivated canary. For this purpose it is necessary to take out its laying from a nest and to put there recently hatched baby birds. The canary will feed willingly chickabiddies, they in a nest so far. But after its leaving some individuals stop feeding adopted children.
Cultivation of baby birds of owls, predators, duck, chicken - less complex business. At these birds less intensive metabolism, and many of them are born ready to independent life.
Care for baby birdsAs the little pet should be fed very often, it is always necessary to be nearby or to carry him with itself. While the baby bird is small and cannot escape, it is possible to keep him in a small container or a box. If the unfledged baby bird is only 4-5 days old since that moment as he hatched, it is important to provide it heating. It is the simplest to arrange it in the form of a hot-water bottle from the flattened plastic bottle. Since 9-12 in the afternoon when the baby bird seeks to leave "nest", it is better to place it in a small cage. Irrespective of the place of contents, the baby bird has to have a dry soft laying for which the moss or the dried grass will be suitable. If they are absent near at hand, it is possible to lay vatu initially. In this case it is important to watch constantly that the baby bird did not get confused in fibers. It is necessary to change a laying in process of pollution.