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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:36 pm |
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They are not gaining weight. Probably just not losing it. I mean, I weight them after feeding to see what they ate (if the chick is 1g more than before feeding, then he ate 1g of formula, right?)
I need a bigger something to give them formula. I am using 5 ml medication pipette (plastic), and often I have to interrupt feeding to go get a new portion when they just started to eat well. Also, it really helps to make a fresh formula, instead of making one big cup for all of them (it doesn't do too well thru our very long process).
recommendations to feed about 10% of the weight - is it per feeding, or per day?
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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:11 pm |
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thanks. What should be night hours for them? We turn the light off at 10pm (which I think is late) and get them up soon after 7am. Normally I let my tiels sleep longer than this but I thought they shouldn't spend too many hours without food - ? its 10.13 and I still have lights on because everybody eating in the cage today I made formula but all 4 were so concentrated eating something else, that I decided to pull them out later.
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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:18 pm |
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I finally opened unhatched eggs that were left from the first clutch. 2 of them were just like chicken eggs we eat - with liquid yolk and white. The third one had also yolk with orange tint but it was all dry inside. Was this one fertile but died early?
All 3 eggs looked fine from outside - not black or rotten or anything.
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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:45 pm |
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Lots of shaking in the cage when they flap their wings and chasing the father. Worried for the new clutch well-being.
6 eggs this time. Now mom is out of the cage much more so the daddy is incubating more time during the day. Interesting, but the chicks don't associate mom with feeding, dad only. I wonder what its going to be like when (if) any new babies are born. I mean all the older chicks and the babies.
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