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Baby Zebbie Boo Boo; Doing well now
Topic Started: Jan 7 2010, 09:26 PM (3,077 Views)
cspags
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It sucks maryann, but please remember if you cannot make a bird survive NO ONE ELSE could. Your knowledge and dedication leaves me speechless. I am proud to know you.
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Ok found a few now and will be using the thicker formula and match stick type feeding, will be much safer, they are using a flat toothpick. Also plastic tools and the formula is quite thick, u think they would choke but they seem fine, this will be my next attempt. Im done accidentally killing babies. :( I will never use liquid again. There were two videos I found that had one and two day olds eating farily thick, enough to mound on the stick. Good enough for me.
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Cathy, you are too kind. I just wish I had found this info 3 babies ago. Sometimes books arent enough. Sometimes the simpler the better. These are methods that date way back to the day of the bird man from alcatraz. He did the same, used a rolled up sock as a feeding nest and a matchstick with gobs of food on the end. I will adopt that feeding style from now on.
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Maryann I am simply speaking the truth.
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Thank you Cathy, its faith like yours that keeps my head up and trying harder.
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CBL I'm so sorry. :( I don't know what else to say but here is some love for you. :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:
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Thanks Vi, I just wish I had clued in sooner. I hope everyone who reads this will remember my losses and NE VER, feed thin liquid again. Thicker with a matchstick or toothpick or anything similar they can think of is the only safe way to go. Just wish I didnt have to lose 3 chicks before getting an inkling. SOB, makes me mad. I'm not looking for pity, I just want to stop the waste of life.

I think I got the formula down now for the illness. I boiled water, acidified it, then added the vit/medicine mix and kept in the fridge and only took out COLD portions in a thermos to heat and feed. Pity I had to drown the poor thing. Experience is a SUCK hole way to learn at the expense of a tiny creatures life.

If ANYthing happens to the gouldians if they do hatch out, at my hand, Im done. I wont even entertain hatching babies. I would only assist parents in need, thats it!
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Fingers crossed maryann, I know you are doing everything humanely possible!
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Well the gouldian eggs are viable so far, I candled them and they are filling up. So this is my last chanse to grow them without killing them.
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CBL,
I've never seen anything safer than a blunt toothpick for newborns. The past 3 days I was feeding Ino society bubs that hatched and never got fed by the parents. I was using a toothpick and thick-ish formula. Luckily today the parents took over.
I'm sorry for your loss :(
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