Handfeeding Tweety 4/30/10

Handfeeding Tweety the red factor canary baby. I started off feeding boiled egg, homemade nesting food, and added some chick weed. Today he is enjoying boiled egg, nesting food and crushed blackberry, and he loves it.

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Pets & Animals

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• hand
• feed
• red
• factor
• canary
• OneTrueMedia

[oddmary]

precious! how is Tweetie now. keep us posted please.

[Chris72nc]

@oddmary he is great, a year older, i hear him singing sometimes, though where i raised him he missed out on lessons from his very loud father. yeah he is grown and a beautiful loved canary.. maybe i will try and sneak a video of him singing soon.. :)

[ErickLazcon4]

My canary mom killed 1 of her babies and the other one is abandoned. i bought some nestling food and i wanted to ask if you know how often they eat. oh its 8 days old. i feed it 3 times because everytime i found it she would move her head up and her wings will move. please write a.s.a.p

[Chris72nc]

@ErickLazcon4 also i was told by an old timer that store bought nesting food is not reccomended for younger birds. but i have a friend that says he uses it all the time. another rule to remember is more egg younger, less nesting food. older more nesting food, less egg. GOOD LUCK to you and your bird.

[ErickLazcon4]

@Chris72nc my canary is 5 weeks old now and the mom had more eggs and he is flying around my house i wanted to know how old do they have to be so they can eat by themselves. thanks

[Chris72nc]

@ErickLazcon4 good to hear, yeah Tweety is doing great too. mine had a clutch of 8 eggs after him, they have 2 that were fertile and are few days old, and feeding! watch to make sure it's cracking seed at feeding time. i've noticed mine are cracking seed at anywhere between 4 and 5 weeks, somewhere along in there. males sometimes become so aggressive with new eggs/chicks that he will kill them from the last bunch, so keep an eye on that.

[KB1KiteBoy1]

Awwww! What a tweet pie!

[nafunkdegroove]

this is fun...

[nestlemarie]

What did you end up with?? A male or female??

[ErickLazcon4]

@Chris72nc thank you i tried right away and the bird ate i feed it to him on monday and when i woke up he was abit bigger and more full of feathers. when the mom left him his crop was skinny and he was cold but now that i fed him he is warmer. thanks man

[Chris72nc]

@ErickLazcon4 hi, i noticed they really eat more everyday. this is the first one i've tried this with, and i used 1 cc syringe, i've since cut the end off so he can get more clumps of egg etc. he started at about .1 cc and now is at full syringe twice per feeding! lol i have read about feeding around the clock, but from day one i did not do this, as it would be stressful for myself and the bird. i stuck with every 2 hours all it wanted during daylight hours.