BABY BIRDS: Handfeeding By A Professional! ©Karla K. Larsson

Ted Watson illustrates how to handfeed baby birds. Ted has been doing this for over 20 years and has handfed thousands of baby parrots. This is not how a beginner would handfed. (Video by Karla K. Larsson for Birds of Paradise, Paradise, California: (530) 872-7028)

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[keerilu]

hihi.... i found a very little baby bird on the street... it's raining heavily when i found it... so i bring it home... it isn't afraid of me... love to stand on my fingers and can fly a bit... the problem is that it doesn't take food... i dissolves baby bites to feed it and failed... and it doesn't take millet too... it doesn't take water also.. what shall i do.... thank you very much

[OnePickieChickie]

@keerilu Call animal hospitals to find one that is open who can give you the phone number of someone who is licensed to care for injured wildlife.

[CookiesfromWoW]

Could the mother feed the bird or the person have to? Please respond asap I would like to know.

[OnePickieChickie]

@CookiesfromWoW The mother always feeds the birds. There are only two reasons a person feeds the baby birds:

1. Something has happened to the baby bird's parent(s)

2. Because they want the baby birds to be really tame so people can have them as pets.

If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to post them and I will answer them for you.

[MsTati]

Wow... a couple of seconds per chick, direct shot into the crop - and move onto another one. I wish hands were not in the way, it is fascinating to watch someone so skilled. Takes me forever to feed mine, and the only reason I have to hand feed my 6 cockatiel babies is because parents were plucking and overfeeding. Separated, so they do not breed again, - I had enough of babies to last me a lifetime.

[OnePickieChickie]

@MsTati No kidding. I do NOT enjoy handfeeding birds. Ted will have up to 60 to handfeed every few hours and has been doing this for about 20 years or more. It's not my idea of fun at all, especially when you can't go anywhere for more than a couple of hours. You fall asleep on the couch then suddenly wake up and instead of crawling into bed, you have to go feed a bunch of baby birds? No thank you!

[Opexmans]

hello, will u please tell me what food your giving, pls, i have two indian ringnecks, i need to feed them, they are 10 days only.. pls help me,

[kbusuego]

what is the yellow thing that u sucked it up and feed it to the birds?

[deathmaster260]

Awwwwww, soo cute. :) and if that song wasn't in the background I probably wouldn't have cried..

[onesaleaday4u]

cute.

[daveyjonesthehamster]

not to be rude but...

they are so ugly they are cute!

[TheAussierapper]

hi i have 2 6 week old baby scaleys going to start hand feeding them tomorrow on avolon any tips would be great , this is my first time breeding so just starting to get the hang of it

[ThaliaOberg]

Hi when I've been learning to handfeed the baby birds I always was told to use a different syringe for each baby to avoid pasing germs/infections but I notcied that wasn't happening in the video - do you not have a problem with this if everything is kept sterilised in the first place?? :D

[truelovesfaith1]

i want one

[Joreli99]

Nm...they flew off this morning...sooooo I must have done something right!

[Joreli99]

And BTW I've tried feeding them but they wouldn't open up...and is it bad that they just wanna sleep??? Scared! X(