Hand feeding gouldian baby's

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west finch
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The things we do for our birds ! These young Gouldian’s father died for some reason about three week’s ago then on Saturday i noticed i had not seen there mother since Friday ,so on opening the nest box there she was dead with here chicks . She put so much into looking after the chicks she died of exhaustion . Bugger !!! what to do put them down or hand feed ? Being the softy that I am I’m hand feeding . It hasn't taken them long to work out that I mean food . Photos were taken this afternoon all going well so far .
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Wow looks like their all going very well. How old are they now?? How do you plan on weaning them??
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There’ve just started to leave the nest of a day, they have access to seed and water so hopefully they will work it out for themself .
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That's great, well done! Hope they continue to thrive.
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