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Baby Zebbie Boo Boo; Doing well now
Topic Started: Jan 7 2010, 09:26 PM (3,078 Views)
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It could be a real trendy boutique, the finches do the piercing, your budgies can do hair and your dogs could give massage. Its time all these critters contribute more than love and joy a little cash. Now a name for the boutique. hmmmm
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Crazy Bird Lady
Jan 30 2010, 02:02 PM
Ya, I am seeing a bit of a pinkish hue coming now so that is what made me ask :) Cool, wasnt aware that it would happen so fast. Will u be able to tell if he is hen or cock being all white? I still read now and then that no matter what color, the males red beaks are a brighter shad of red than hens????
Yup, pink will turn into orange then red... Males will always have red beaks and females orange ones.
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Ok, well got home today with two fertile gouldian eggs from a breeder dude in woodbridge and as I was leaving his shop he GAVE me a young adult for free because I helped him with his other parrots.

So I picked what I thought was a young hen by the duller belly and chest markings, and I think it will be a black face. I will have a closer look later, also, when I got home the last zebbie egg was an egg and ten minutes ago it is a hatched chick, so I gave it its first feed. Now we start again. I will be doing the acidified water chasing with antibiotics :) Wish me luck. I put the two eggs back under the parrotlet as she hatched this one out. Fingers crossed all 3 make it.
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Wow -- you can go out and get fertile eggs and bring them home so they can hatch? I had no idea. Not only that, you get a new full brown birdie! How cool is that?
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Great news CBL,
How long had the parrotlet been brooding? Would she sit enough for the Gould eggs?
Good luck with all the tame finches you will end up with :)
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Yes I think she will Pass, she has sat from day one with this finch egg @14 days. She usually sits quite a bit longer than her 18 days for parrotlet bubs and if not, I will finish the incubating as I did before.

Ya, if u are careful and u dont addle the egg, u can have success. I have done this before with 2 budgie eggs. Will post pics of the guys birds sometime today I hope, off to collect the hubby from the airport. Boy am I tired, up at 5:30 to drive. I should be all tucking in snoozing now hahah.
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I like how "Boo Boo" is paying so much attention to the lesson. Really cute pic. :wub:
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This finch just died when I fed it, within one minute or less.

So I went back to my picture file to see what I used to feed Inchy and Booboo.

Although I used a dropper with both for the first day. I used a syringe/plunger with
them after that, which I think is much safer. I can control the amout of a fraction of a drop.
I think using a dropper is too dangerous and the birds aspirate. Not enough control.

To confirm or deny this I went back to one of my handfeeding books and it warns
that feeding thin liquid has a higher chanse of aspiration and to be careful which I was.

I think that is the downfall tho. I looked at the formula that I fed Inchy in the pics and
it seemed a bit thicker than what I was giving these last 3 zebbies that died.

VERY frustrating. If these gouldians hatch out, I will be giving them a thicker formula from the start
with zero to minimal fluid before that. I think it will be safer. When I look at the crops of
bubs their age, even 2 to 3 days old, they have seeds in them, so this business of giving straight
fluids is too dangerous for me. I will modify this practice and see if it helps.

I must have had dumb luck with Inchy and Booboo to survive. Piss me the hell off. What an absolute waste of life
for those poor little birds to survive the growing and hatching stage only to die EATING.

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Oh Maryann I am so so sorry.
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Cathy its a horrible way to learn that the technique via syringe is not precise enough, I am so mad I could spit, why these things are written is beyond me. At least with the canula, I can get a fraction of a drop. This chick was very strong and vibrant and was gaping very well. I hate learning by trial and error. Especially at the cost of a life.

I think tho even a fraction of a drop WITH the canula if the feed is only fluid, it still risky. I wish I could see video of finches or small birds being fed from day one. I tried looking up some on youtube and will try again. I will punch in different species of birds till I find one.
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