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| Gouldians Chronicles; OMG Booboo is a DAD !!! | |
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| Crazy Bird Lady | Dec 2 2010, 11:04 PM Post #31 |
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Peckenpaw is doing well. Even tho she has recovered her head wound, she still seems to get this red scab on the back of her head, so I have now started using an antifungal cream on it just in case. All the gouldian bubs are dead. One egg tossed, one tossed with the chick in that I fed for two days then died. The other two HEALTHY ones, I fed twice as per Pass's instructions. Despite that and reading in MANY books NOT to feed for the first 24 hours after hatching, the parents did NOT feed overnite and they died. Im so pissed that two perfectly healthy birds perished because of misinformation. Especially since I have two fosters set up that will feed. So now the book according to ME'/Maryann will now read, feed the damn birds within 2 hours of hatching if the stupid parents done feed. Nature says, the bloody bubs are beggin, FEED them. The stupid bastards that wrote the books saying that shit about eggsacs not being absorbed and blab lab bla about feeding too soon is all bullshit. Now the purple breasts are days away from hatching, if they dont feed right away within the hour, bubs will be yanked and fostered or reared by me. Pass, I need to know HOW u do the supplemental feed, do u do it IN the nest or pull the bubs, feed then put BACK in the nest and if so, do the parents ever abandon them??? because of that ?????? |
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| VIOLET12 | Dec 3 2010, 03:32 AM Post #32 |
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Maryann....hope Pass answers soon. |
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| Pass | Dec 3 2010, 11:46 AM Post #33 |
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Vi, I answered Maryann by email last night ![]() CBL, I feed 2 or 3 times a day and never by night and the babies never died of starvation. I find it weird that yours did. They don't need that much food the first 24 hours. However, I do not believe in the 24h rule and I am sure they need to be fed a few hours a after they hatched. |
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| Crazy Bird Lady | Dec 3 2010, 04:23 PM Post #34 |
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Pass, still need to know if you pull them out of the box to feed them or use a pippette with them IN the nest and how the parents react????? Have they ever stopped feeding because u interferred??? What is the actual feeding procedure? I want to not stress the parents into abandonment IF they were gonna fed them and then feel stressed enough to leave them. |
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| cspags | Dec 3 2010, 10:49 PM Post #35 |
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Wow having bubs is so stressful I do not know how you do it. |
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| Crazy Bird Lady | Dec 4 2010, 12:53 AM Post #36 |
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It gets easier, you get accustom to the potential losses and try not to get attached. I hold such a high regard for ANY life, that is what does me in. I am determined to try and get a healthy clutch especially out of the lilacs. Hopefully I will get really good at rescuing and handfeeding them. I have all the tools and most of the know how, but mother nature often has other ideas. So always searching. Waiting on that book, was just told it has shipped, so within two weeks should be in hand reading my guts out. |
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| Pass | Dec 4 2010, 01:22 AM Post #37 |
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Maryann, I've never had any Goulds abandon their clutch but then again they were my birds and i knew they wouldn't leave their babies cause they are used to me. I handle them so often that they don't care anymore lololol. Sometimes when i catch them to check something out or transfer them to another cage they get a bit agitated but as soon as I put them back, it takes them less than a second to get over it like it never happened. These birds wouldn't usually abandon their clutches if u interfere. But fidgety nervous birds would. |
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| Crazy Bird Lady | Dec 4 2010, 05:43 AM Post #38 |
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Hm good to know as my few bubs are rather tame and unafraid. They are used to me handling them daily for outside flights in the sun, but now I have stopped as it is ugly fall cold out. Also the untame zebbies seem to stress everyone. I may separate them again as I had before. Will see when all the cages are set up and see what room I have. |
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| Crazy Bird Lady | Dec 5 2010, 11:05 PM Post #39 |
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Well I put the one bub that I was choking back under Inchy with the one he IS feeding in the hopes that he will feed this second one. The reason I did that is last time I checked on him, he was gaping well again. But of course, they are STILL NOT FEEDING him. So I just got some hand feeding formula, mixed it semi think enough NOT to be a liquid, SCREW what the instructions say. If its a bit thick, too bloody bad. I fed the chick in the nest under Inchy with a long paint brush. He took about 4 or 5 mouthfuls and was still gaping but I dont want to push my luck. I am hoping that with a few more feeds from me, (hopefully without killing it) that Inchy will take over when he sees how strong it gapes. Even if he gives it a few mouthfuls accidentally, it will help with the good bacteria. Im going for a bloody nap to recharge my brain. Wish this little bub luck, he needs it after the horrible mean start in life he has gotten so far. |
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| Crazy Bird Lady | Dec 7 2010, 01:22 PM Post #40 |
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Well its day 3 today of the bub. Something has changed in that he is fussy and wiggles alot. Didnt take a full feeding last nite for a few feedings and wiggled his guts out when fed. So, I rememeber reading that if too hot, they will be restless. So I reduced the heat a tidge. He ate better this last feed but wiggles a bit so I think I have to be anal with the temp of the feed. I have that instant read lazer gun thermometer I have been using. I think he likes it as close to 100 degrees and not a degree more. I remeber Inchy just spazing out when he was eating and I believe the formula was way too hot, but back then, I was going by the book, how I didnt kill him with crop burn, I dont know. So next feed this morn, Im gonna try to switch to teat canula and direct crop feed as he is literally swallowing the brush deep enough. That way I can get a good full feed in one shot without stressing him and waiting for him to gape, which he seems to not do as much of. He is eating about 1/2 to 3/4 of crop volume compared to yesterday. I hope this works. |
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