Hand Feeding Newly Born Pigeon Baby || Feed Freshly Hatched Pigeons Chick || One Day Old Bird Care

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This baby was too weak to hold his head up and open his beak to eat. His parents were not feeding him and the three other hatchlings in the nest, so we decided to hand-feed them. At some point, it may happen that a baby becomes too weak to eat. If they do not lift their heads to eat, and open their beaks, you will have no choice but to force feed them. This one needed to be force-fed to be kept alive. By the next feeding, he was able to eat by himself. This video shows how the dropper is used to pry open his mouth to get the food in. If we had not done this, he would have become weaker and weaker, more dehydrated, and then died.
If you cannot use a dropper to open his beak, you can also try to use your fingernail, for example, to separate the beak. Be careful to put only tiny quantities in, or you may drown the bird. Aim for the right side of HIS throat, if possible.
The ideal food to feed baby canaries is commercial baby food for parrots made by Cédé or other special baby bird food. Do not watch the clock to determine whether or not to feed the babies. I always use freshly boiled water, because that will kill off any possible pathogens that may be lurking in the food or the bowl. Feed the babies as soon as their crops get empty. In the beginning especially important to feed them a diet that is more liquid in consistency. As they get older, you can thicken it up, slowly. Mix the food according to instructions on the box.
If you are really stuck for food, you can try to dilute dried egg food with water, and mash it up into a purée. Alternatively, you can do the same with boiled egg yolk. Take the egg yolk from a hard-boiled egg only, and mash it up finely with a fork and add some water, until you get a thin liquid, similar in texture that you see in the video. Make sure there are no clumps. If there are clumps, you need to mash it up some more and add some more water.
Watch the babes, not the clock. Feed them whenever their crops look empty. That means every one or two hours in the first few days of life. EVEN AT NIGHT. It is a good idea to let the crop empty between feeds, otherwise, the bird can get sick as bacteria can form from the "old" food being there too long. It mimics what would happen in nature.
Initially, I use minute quantities of food that I only put ON THE TIP of the dropper, not even into it. After a couple of days, as the babies get bigger and stronger, I feel more comfortable that I will not asphyxiate them with the food, and start giving it to them from the dropper directly, putting the mixture INSIDE, instead of On the tip.
It is important to keep all equipment clean and to sterilize the dropper or syringe that you use with hot, soapy water after each feed, especially when the babies are very young. Make sure you rinse the soap off properly. You can let is air dry.
Additionally, keep in mind that the mixture you feed needs to be a bit below 39 degrees Celsius, the same temperature as the temperature of birds, or a little less. Normally, parents would regurgitate food from their crop and it would be around their body temperature (39 Celsius) to feed their babies. If the food is too hot, you will burn the insides of the babies. If it is too cold, they can have serious indigestion and use too much energy to keep warm and to try to digest the food.
Make the food fresh for each feed, if possible. Alternatively, you can refrigerate it until the next feed one time. After that, there is a real risk of contamination with bacteria, and in my opinion, it is just not worth it. With time, you will learn to make just the right amount that they will eat, with very little left-overs to throw out.
To find out the temperature of the food, ideally, you would use a thermometer. If you do not have one handy, a good test to see if the mixture is alright to feed, if you do not have a thermometer, is to put a drop on the back of your hand. If it burns you, it will burn the bird. Wait a few minutes before trying the test again, and then try to feed. You can hurry up the cooling process by putting the bowl containing the mixture in a second bowl of cold water.
If the mixture feels cool on the back of your hand, it is too cold. You can try to warm it up by putting the bowl with the food into another bowl containing hot water for a minute or so, to warm it up. You can keep that bowl with the hot water handy as you feed the babies, to keep the food at the right temperature.
Keep the parents with the babies if at all possible, especially if they sit on them to keep them warm. This removes the need for an incubator. The mother will keep them at the right heat and humidity.
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