Very often children bring from the street chicks, ostensiblydropped out of the nest, and begin to care for them with tears. Arrange in a box a nest, stack on cotton wool or cloths and ask adults what to feed the chicks that fell out of the nest?
To force the baby to bring the chick to where it came from, not every parent is capable of, although he understands that he will have to take care of the foundling.
Eating chicks is often required, every 15-20 minutes. It will be possible to interrupt only for a night's sleep and the feeding should be resumed no later than the sun will rise.
Than to feed the chicks, depends on the species of birds, towhich they relate to. There is an opportunity at home to feed the chicks of a swallow, a songbird, a sparrow, a swift, a crow, or a dove. Almost all chicks can be returned to the place where they were found, and parents will surely take care of them.
Do not return to the place only small swifts. Swifts can not help the fallen chick from the nest, they do not know how to fly off the ground. To distinguish swift from swallows it is possible by the paws - at swifts all fingers look forward.
The children found a young bird of a sparrow. What to feed the bird?
Despite the fact that adult birds with pleasurepecks grains, nestlings feed on protein food. For food, flour worms and live bloodworms, which can be purchased at pet stores, rain worms, can be dug out on their own, flies are also caught by their own hands.
Ideally, feeding takes place every 20 minutes -if not, at least once an hour. In the beak of the chick, a piece of food must be pushed, revealing it by force. If you can not get a living food, then you need to mix pieces of egg yolk, cottage cheese and minced meat and make tiny balls. The nestling can not peck, but to 3-4 feeds understands that it is required to open the "mouth".
What to feed the baby bluebird? His diet does not differ from the diet of the sparrow. The only thing, a titmouse bird may need mineral supplements and vitamins, which will have to be introduced along with the feed. Nestlings of titmice are found less often, these birds hide their nests from people. It often happens that parents, frightened by people, lose a chick, and when the children find it, it is weakened enough.
Often, children bring small swallows home. These birds arrange nests on the last floors of human dwellings and under the balconies. How to feed the chicks of these birds? Swallows eat always protein food, and therefore feeding swallows is no different from nursing chicks of sparrows. But it must be remembered: if birds of other species are gradually transferred to grain forage during the growing up period and can leave the hospitable owners, the swallow, fed in captivity, is not returned to freedom. True, live food can be replaced with a bird as a surrogate - translate it into minced meat. Feed the chicks swallow enough once an hour.
When it is clear what to feed the chicks, it is requiredclarify than to water them and how? And most importantly, is it necessary? You can drip a couple of drops of water, introducing it further into the beak, from the pipette, but birds in the wild do not sing their chicks - they have enough moisture from live food.
In order for children not to bring small children homebirds, parents should explain to the child that the children - most of the children bring the chicks, who flew out of the nest, without completely fledging - he flew out of the nest and waited for his mother, who would feed him and take care. And do not bring such chicks home, it is better to return to the same place that parents found. At home, it is quite difficult to raise a chicken.
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