Finch baby Bird Hand rearing / feeding kit.

Please note the food contains peanuts

The kit contains everything you need in an emergency to hand feed a baby finch and other similar birds like sparrow and canary and budgies. Ideal if you have a sick bird who is not feeding on its own.

The kit contains

4 x 2ml syringes 

2 x 5ml syringes  

 Mini crop tube for finches

1 long thin tube

Plastic spoon for mixing (egg cups are ideal)

1 x 1ml pipette

1 x 3ml pipette

Syringe brand or colour may be different from those shown.

       A smooth wooden stick for feeding from hatching

          1 x 50g  foil pouch of hand rearing formula powder. 

Food can be frozen and stays powdery

Feeding Instructions 

0 – 2 Days – 90% Hot water to 10% Formula

3 – 7 Days – 85% Hot water to 15% Formula

7 – 21 Days – 80% Hot water to 20% Formula

21 Days – 75% Hot Water to 25% Formula

Ingredients

• Ground Corn, Soybean Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Ground Wheat, Ground Brown Rice, Ground Dehulled Sunflower Seeds, Ground Dehulled Peanuts, Sugar, Canola Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Dicalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Dried Yeast, Ground Flaxseed, Lecithin, Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Kelp, Oat Groats, L-lysine, Choline Chloride, DLmethionine, Biotin, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Calcium L-ascorbyl-2-Monophosphate, Zinc Oxide, Manganous Oxide, D-calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Rosemary Extract, Beta-carotene, Copper Sulfate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, Inositol, Folic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin D3 Supplement.

Guaranteed Analysis

• Crude Protein (min) 22%, Crude Fat (min) 10%, Crude Fibre (max) 3.5%, Moisture (max) 9%, Calcium (min) 1%, Phosphorus (min) 0.8%, Vitamin 

How to feed a gouldian chick from hatching (and similar)

A finch is tiny when it hatches and only needs to be fed after 12-24 hours after hatching.

Mix up a tiny amount of rearing food which is watery to start with, Dip the end of the wooden stick Into the mixture  and place place gently into the mouth with ONE OR TWO DROPS  every half / 1 hour or so DO NOT USE A SYRINGE.

Increase the amount of food thickness and quantity as the chick grows.

The crop tube will not damage the crop as they are tapered and smooth

I find it easier to hold the syringe as shown in the picture as there is more control.

When chicks are big enough to take the crop tube ie about a week, simply suck up the mixture and plunge gently into the mouth and crop at small intervals of the chicks natural feeding bobbing motion. Feeding with the syringe in this way is similar to the parents  feeding them. 

If a chick is very sick and simply not asking for food, suck up a small amount of food and gently open the chicks mouth and pass down into the crop, slowly fill with food. Never over fill the crop as the chicks windpipe is just behind the tounge and if you over fill the mouth with food the chick can choke,  I know as i have done it and its heartbreaking. So little and often rather than too much is Ideal.

From day 1 and 2 only a few drops at a time

Day 3 to 7 the crop will expand and will take more food each day.

Day 14 onwards about 1ml 

It is all trial and error and sometimes it can go wrong and chicks can die even if you try your best, i have been hand rearing my neglected birds since 2001 and it can take a while to master.