Feeding time for purple martins
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I am losing ours to the heat, I have 3 late bloomers, due too my work and my parernts age we might loose thoses... can we talk? quickly......
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my grandpa is lowell fiedler... washington ilinois......... we had over 1800 purple martins last year and there already on there way back...... we own one of the largest colonys........and i write to natures society.
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We've rescued baby tree swallows (similar to purple martins) orphaned in blue bird boxes from predator attacks. We've learned while feeding crickets and scrambled eggs they will eat a lot of food but also require plenty of moisture to prevent deadly constipation or dehydration. Don't give water directly - it can drown them or cause pneumonia. The scrambled eggs are fed from a cup with water added for moisture and liquid avian vitamins (from pet store) to prevent vitamin deficiency. Good luck!
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Yes these birds were covered with mites.I'm going to install access ports and a rack that I can raise and lower.I've delt with mites on my batam chickens.
hatchboy1 2 years ago
The purple martin forum has a lot of information on how to deal with that and other martin colony threats. Sounds like you're on your way with your colony, I hope to see you soon on the forum! Log in there and introduce yourself to everyone.
boltboss 2 years ago
Wow this is my first year with my martins here at this site I had a lot of babies that fledged that couldn't fly I'm glad I seen this I'll be more preparred next year.
hatchboy1 2 years ago
Congratulations on your new colony! Babies you found may be 'jumpers' driven from the nest prematurely by biting mites - common problem in cavity nesting birds. Visit the forum at purplemartin org website for more information. There are lots of other purple martin hosts there with plenty of good information about caring for your colony. Good luck - purple martins need as many new hosts like you as they can find!
boltboss 2 years ago
Excellent - congratulations on saving the babies! How did you get them to come to you for the feedings?
pmslums 2 years ago
They were not yet flying when they were brought to us. We fed them every two hours from dawn to dusk - even at the office. They started learning to fly to us in the office when they got hungry. We transferred to feeding them outdoors and encouraged them to fly across the deck. We increased distances and eventually took them to an open field on our property to continue 'flight lessons'. Over a week or so they became more and more independent and eventually fledged with other adult martins.
boltboss 2 years ago