Bugs

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today's strip

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[chinrest.livejournal.com]

hey, I cant get a hold of my nectivore co-ordinator...how often do you feed your baby/juvie noisy mynahs? mine seem to demand every half an hour!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Half-hour sounds right. Keep in mind that the parents would be feeding their youngsters all the time. I put worm-shaped bits on a bamboo skewer.

When very young I fed him the same meat-mix* I feed the peewees, about every 30 minutes. I got him used to taking food off the stick. Then when he was perching I started dipping his meat into the nectar mix, and got him used to seeing food come out of the nectar. Eventually before feeding I'd poke the stick in the nectar dish, and he started drinking. Now I have a budgie-cage seed dispenser with some of the nectar in it, and miner feeds when he likes. I put 50ml in the feeder and change it every day.

The little bugger still demands to be fed with the peewees, though.


*100g lean mincemeat, 20g Wombroo Insectivore mix, 2 boiled eggs (boiled for 20 minutes.)

[chinrest.livejournal.com]

ah excellent, yeah I've snadpapered little sticks and chop up fruit salad mixed with the nectivore mix and a bit of insectivore in there too. the older one is starting to learn to feed himself, but the baby isn't near that stage yet. Thanx mate!
(gotta run to a dr's appt. hence the quick reply)

[chinrest.livejournal.com]

ok, here's a pic of the youngest one..I've had enormous trouble spilling crap all over the poor lil bugger, and had to wrap him up and wipe him down. Can't say they're my fave bird to put it politely ;)

(http://photobucket.com/)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

When I first introduced my baby to the nectar I held his beak into it until he started drinking. I relaxed my hand and he escaped by diving into the dish. Poor little bugger was upside down in the stuff, flapping and panicking. I had to bath him to get the gunk out.

[chinrest.livejournal.com]

hahahahha I've shown him the D cup (the older one) but he forgets everyday and needs to be shown again. Then as the day goes on the D cup gets emptier, so I know he knows...lil shit! Thankfully the juvie lorri is smarter and is fully feeding himself. But the poor bugger....another member had an adult in care since september with a suspected broken wing, turns out it was a runner so the lorri is in isolation in the back verandah :( Bleaching everything was fun too! not!!

we should be having this convo in the wires community. I'll do a post there later with the pics of what I have atm, and hopefully we can attract some more members. I know we have the intranet, but it's too slow..they need a chatroom!
*runs off to physio*

[chinrest.livejournal.com]

meant to say the older lorri got the green needle...be interesting to see if 24 hours contact will give the juvie beak & feather and if it does, how long it'll take to show signs...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

We have that running through the local wild flocks of galahs and cockatoos. It really knocks them down while there's a drought on.

[chinrest.livejournal.com]

That'd make sense as the diesease is carried in the wing/feather dust. If the rain's not there to make them groom and frequent baths, then it's goona escalate. Just another outcome of global warming I guess.