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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:51 pm 
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Srtiels's website still has a password and will only be accessible if you pay $10. She has the passwords. We humans have to feel them every 2 hours because we feed them a good amount of food. The parents feed the chicks a little at a time resulting in more frequent feedings.


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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:04 pm 
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The babies need calcium to support their bone growth so make sure the parents have a good source.

The handfeeding schedules are different than what the parent birds do. With handfeeding you stuff the crop full of food all at once then give the baby time to digest it. Once the babies start getting bigger the parents can't deliver enough food to stuff them full in a single feeding session. So they deliver smaller feedings more often than what a human handfeeder would do.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:23 pm 
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I see.
So what and when do I do in a meantime to prevent..... more mating and more eggs? We need a break....



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 4:00 am 
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This is their second clutch right? A second clutch is nearly impossible to stop. I have separated my birds for months and when I put them back together, they went right back to making their second clutch. A 3rd clutch will most likely not happen as long as you remove the box as soon as the last baby leaves from it.


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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:01 am 
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Not quite. This is their THIRD clutch in a row. The second was all infertile but I was too scared to candle the eggs so I didn't know about having no chicks to hatch, and missed a moment when I needed to take the box down. Then I saw another egg, and took some actions, but they brought rather negative result - we ended up with even more eggs.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:23 am 
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It's fairly effective to start scaling back on the apparent day length when the oldest chick is about two weeks old. Don't go overboard with the long nights - you don't want the parents' hormone levels to drop so low that they stop taking care of the babies. But if you make it look like the days are getting shorter it's likely to discourage them. If it doesn't discourage them you can take stronger measures, like making the nights seem even longer and/or pulling the babies for handfeeding and removing the nest.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:46 am 
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We are in a duplex, today in the morning I saw a worker placing Caution ribbon around my neighbor's property. I asked what was going on, and he said that he is here to replace the windows, and because the house was built before 1978, he has to have Caution sign due to possible lead danger. I asked more questions, and he said the chance that paint in the house has lead is 75% :( I asked about window frame that our birds are chewing sometimes and he said "yes, this too". the windows don't seem to be "painted" but they are certainly treated with something. You saw them on the picture.
Of course, I will definitely put something around the wood.
What else can I do? Anybody ever dealt with lead danger for birds?
I believe there is no immediate danger to people but I will have to check on this.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:26 pm 
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The material on the window frame looked like veneer not paint, but I don't know what's in it. If you cover it up so the birds can't chew on it that will eliminate the danger.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:14 pm 
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baby 1, 11 days old, 57g/30g (weight today compared to a weight 4 days ago)
baby 2, 10 days old, 46g/23g
baby 3, 9 days old, 42g/22g
baby 4, 8 days old, 31g/14g
baby 5, 7 days old, 26g/12g

Everybody opened their eyes except the youngest, but he is working towards it. it upset me that last night mom wasn't in the box with them. She was in the box when I covered them for the night, but not in the morning. I think the youngest one is too young to be without mom.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:36 am 
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Don't worry, I am not going to bake them in this dish :) the older one had problems with the glass surface being slippery under the shavings so I will need to use something different. All 5 are there, but some are hiding from the camera :)
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