One of my sparrows just hatched, what do I do? Please help?

Question

Alright, thanks for your responses, and yes I was prepared, I have food, syringes and clean papertowels, a scale and a book to date everything.

One more thing though, do I keep the heatlamp on the babies or do I need to do something for them that they can move out of the heatsource, this question is especially directed to the vet who answered me already.
And do I need to put a damp towel also after they have hatched?

Answer 1

maybe go out and get some babybird food and try feeding the liitle one.
i'd think that you would have done some research on what to do if you had the eggs, and planned on taking care of them.
anyways good luck and hope everything worksout.

Answer 2

If you were not prepared to properly feed and care for the bird once it was hatched, you should have never attempted to incubate the eggs.

Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. You can find one here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm

Do not attempt to care for this bird yourself. Without proper training, you can do more harm than good. I like the way this website explains it: "First of all, there are federal and state laws that prohibit keeping wild birds. And there are so many important but subtle elements to raising a wild bird that the job is only legally entrusted to licensed rehabilitators. Many well-meaning people raise baby birds or rescue birds from cats or after accidents, and sometimes they don't realize that the bird in their care is suffering from a serious dietary deficiency. Some of the problems aren't apparent to untrained people, but can cause death, or make the bird less likely to evade predators or to survive harsh natural weather conditions."
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/FAQBabies.html

Answer 3

you need to start feeding them NOW.

they need to be fed every 10 minutes from dusk til dawn (literally) - every day. dont miss a feed.

get some bird formula from your local wildlife rescue or rehabilitation organisation IMMEDIATELY or they will die.

I suggest you surrender them to your local bird rescue organisation - baby birds are VERY hard to hand raise.
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