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:lol: :lol: yeah going with the crop needle method, though cos its a bird of fledging age its just a syringe, no attachments, seems to be working, made it through the night!! using a vetafarm general hand rearing mix for finches canaries parrots etc.

the little guy is gettin quite used to me now. flew at me before when i took it out of his nice warm box to get breakfast. cuddled up on my jumper as we speak. :D
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Not fussed on Vetafarm H/R mix, lost a couple of Green-Cheeks using it when they were still $4000 a pair, I prefer Roudybush Formula 3, rear everything on it, Conures, Eckies, Majors, Fruit-Pigeons, Wonga & Geenwing Pigeons, even used it on Lorries when I didn't have time (or the inclination) to make up a batch of Lorry wet.
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Vetafarm has a new one out called neocare ...I changed from Passwells to Neocare and the birds weight improved and it doesnt thicken up any more once its mixed.
Limited here to Passwells , Vetafarm and Avione ..not much choice
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[/quote] Hope you'r using a crop needle or similar,not chewing up live food and seed and regurgitating it for the overwhelmed little beggar.Something that Deb or BB would probably doImage[/quote]
I resemble that remark :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Neo-care is designed as a first food & is very high in fat (17%), so watch for any fat build up around the abdomen.
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haha, there is so very little that i know about hand rearing!! im using the vetafarm neocare one yes, only finch one i could find in the rush i was to get some food in this starvin bub. i've got it in with some seed and water and it had a go at cracking some yesterday but failed miserably and spat the whole lot out.

i realise that hand rearing finches and parrots will be quite different, but what's the basic gist of it? at the moment im feeding whenever crop is near empty, as much i can in one go. won't take more than half a crop full at a time, but feedings are ending up around 1.5 to 2 hours apart... seed and a very shallow dish of water in a carry cage with it and an old (clean) sock to curl up in... mixture is thick enough that it is just the tiniest bit runny (as per instructions on the pack for a bird this age)...

any other tips?
got to take the little guy off to work with me soon :lol: boss loves it though, shes got canary young due soon so is bird mad!!
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Well done Spanna, sounds like you're doing everything right. Do you think he might play around with some green seeds if he's not up to seedmix yet? Photos??
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Redwing wrote:Well done Spanna, sounds like you're doing everything right. Do you think he might play around with some green seeds if he's not up to seedmix yet? Photos??
thanks redwing. thought about that today, was going to soak some seed tomorrow and see how that goes down... have to take the poor thing to uni haha, should be fun... just another crazy murdoch student!!
have taken a couple of photos but havent had time to upload them yet. will soon, hopefully tomorrow as well. all this 'gunnadoo'!!! :lol:
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Couple of babysitters here if you get stuck. One's on study break before she goes on prac and she's had a bit of practice with orphans when I was too busy at work to take them with me.
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Redwing wrote:Couple of babysitters here if you get stuck. One's on study break before she goes on prac and she's had a bit of practice with orphans when I was too busy at work to take them with me.
thanks redwing, i'll let you know if i get really stuck. should be okay though :)
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