Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Helping parent cockatiels feed the baby?

What do we need to put in the cage for the parent's in order to help feed the baby cockatiel?Helping parent cockatiels feed the baby?
This is an easy question. Parent cockatiels need soft food for their babies. I give my adult cockatiels stem rice, spinach, broccoli leaves/flower, hard boiled egg (egg yolk only), lettuce, and Prime vitamin in powder form. Prime vitamin will make the babies strong and health. This will also help the female build her strength after she lay eggs which is very stressful. The babies will love it and want more. After 2 weeks, start hand feeding them Zupreem or Kaytee Exact hand feeding formula. Hand rearing the babies will make them tame.Helping parent cockatiels feed the baby?
Give the parents plenty of soft foods and water. Some that are good are, rice, pasta, wheat toast, cheerios, shredded wheat, eggs hard boiled or scrambles. They arent much of being a fruit eater, but raw vegetables are welcomed. frozen corn and peas thawed. brocolli, cauliflower, celery leaves, baby spinach, and shredded carrots. wheat bread, or 7 grain bread is great too.
I feed my cockatiels eggs. I take a single egg and put it in a bowl. I spray the bowl with spam. That keeps the eggs from sticking to the bowl. Beat the egg until it is mixed well. Then put it in the microwave for 40 seconds. Then I mash the egg up. It is just a scrambled egg prepared in the microwave. I also add some supplements in the egg. The babies will grow really well when fed the egg along with Zupreem pellets. They will feed the pellets to the babies and do OK. They will exceed OK if fed the egg.
nothing. im assumiing that they had babies and that you all ready have a nesting area for them. so as long as thry have plenty of food and water, then they'll do their parently duty. if they aren't then you'll have to hand feed them, which is fairly easy. just a pain in the butt. if you need to go that route, their are 1001 books on the subject and plenty of websites
Some pet stores also sell a special type of food for parents. The parents will eat this special food and then feed it to the babies. It has more vitamins in it for the growing little ones. When I had my babies, I actually fed the parents some of the food that you feed the babies when you hand feed them. This way the babies got some of the food too.

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