How Can You Feed A Baby Bird That's Just Hatched?

Question

I was outside a little while ago feeding my dog and I found a baby bird on the ground. It has just hatched and has it's eyes closed but it is breathing. What can I do for the bird? We have it in a box. I hate to see it die if we leave it outside will the mama bird come and get it? What can we give me bird to eat? How can we help it?

I am sad to say the bird didn't make it. I was wanting to feed it but wouldn't be able to feed it often cause I have to work. I read online you have to feed them every 15 min. Bird was still breathing yesterday morning so my husband put it outside in a small box in a tree close to where it fell. We couldn't see no nest. The mama didn't come back for it. Yesterday evening my husband checked and it was dead. I feel bad about it but I am glad we kept it out of the rain all night :-(

Answer 1

chew up worms and spit them in his mouth

Answer 2

You should put it in a box, and keep it warm tonight.
First thing in the morning, FIND THE NEST!
Put it back in the nest. Its not true that the mother will not take it back.

If you cant find or reach the nest, put it in a small box secured *(meaning nailed to the trunk, and bottom of box resting on a limb)*
to the tree that you found it under, as high up as you can put it.
She will still take care of it.
It would be best if you can place it back in the nest it came from though!
Dont do it tonight, you might freak her out, and she could hurt herself. Most birds cant see very well at night.
Dont worry about feeding it tonight, birds sleep at night anyway.

ADDED:
I'm sorry the little bird didnt make it...
you did the right thing though! Your absolutely right, at least he didnt die in the rain, and was kept as comfortable as possible. Nature is heartbreaking sometimes.
You were very compassionate for taking him in.

Answer 3

If possible, put the baby bird back in the nest. Do not worry about touching the baby. The mother will not reject it. Birds do not have an acute sense of smell. She will not detect your scent on the baby.

If you can not get the baby bird back in the nest, you need to contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. You can find one here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm

Please, under no circumstances, attempt to care for the bird yourself. There is so much more to rehabilitation than keeping the animal alive until you think it is ready to be released. You have to know not only what to feed the bird, but how (please do not attempt to give the bird any liquid by dropper - baby birds can aspirate and die), how much and how often. You also have to know how to assess the birds general health and condition.

A baby bird kept in captivity must be taught to recognize and find the type of food it will eat in the wild. If it is being hand-fed, it may not associate the bugs and berries and seeds in nature as being food. It must also have the opportunity to exercise its wings a lot, so it will be able to fly on or shortly after release. When I volunteered at the Avian Rehabilitation Center, we kept the rehabilitating fledglings in a large walk-in cage with lots of shelves and branches leading from one shelf to the other, and down to the ground. We would place different types of food in the cage for them, as they were being weaned from the hand-feeding formula. We offered seed, meal worms and chopped up fruit. No fledgling was released until it was eating on its own, had sufficient weight gain, had all of its flight feathers in good condition, had no sign of diarreah or nasal discharge, had clear eyes, and could fly at least a few feet in a straight line.

These are the reasons to get the bird to a licensed rehabilitator - they have the training and the resources necessary to do all this, in addition to having the permits to do it all legally.

All native migratory birds in the US are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and you must have the proper permits to have them, even for a short time, even for good reasons like saving them. Many other countries also have similar laws regarding their native species.

Answer 4

Baby food chicken or turkey mixed with egg yolks
Place the little fella in a 'nest' shaped bowl on something like sawdust -etc to support its chest.
Getting it to open its mouth is the hard part
use tweezers to poke GENTLY down into the gullet
It is a lot of hard work but it can be done
It is unlikely that it will be accepted back into the nest if it has been out too long but its momma will know best -Good luck

Answer 5

IT will take a lot of effort and time but doable.

Get pedialite. and give 1 to 2 drops every 2 hrs for 1st day
then inclrease the vol to fill crop. But make sure crop empties before feeding more.

Get baby bied formula from pet store. From 3rd day prepare that and give. liquidy food every 3 hrs slowly thicking the formula as the bird gets old. This is a long process and will require patience.

Best of luc.

Answer 6

reckoning on the form of fowl, the little ones might desire to stay with momma for 2-3 weeks (ideally 3) then in case you pull them for hand feeding (whihc i one hundred% do not recommend without appropriate education hand rearing birds is EXTREEMLY difficult, if the consistency and temperature are actually not absolutly appropriate you will KILL the little ones. in case you pull them they might desire to be fed a fowl hand rearing formular, kaytee is one in all the least difficult manufacturers to discover, in spite of the indisputable fact that lafbeares is greater effective. those first few weeks those little ones would be eating each couple of hours! reckoning on the form of birds those are will dictate average weaning age, how a lot and how often to feed. there is alot of information available for the way reachable rear toddler birds, yet i REALY REALY do not recommend doing this for green human beings you could kill the little ones. discover somebody expereinced hand rearing the form of birds you will possibly desire to tutor you techniques and tutor you! because of the fact your needless to say inexpereinced identity recommend pulling the little ones no in the past than 4 weeks (they might desire to be on approximately 3-4 feedings with the aid of that element and extremely featherd, at this element you could hand feed for the final couple of weeks to weaning (larger birds require a lot longer to wean macaws can take in to fourteen months!) this way your little ones will nevertheless bond and socilize with human beings yet they might have a lot of time to get a good start up.

Answer 7

put it in a shoebox and put a heating pad near it...but not on it or under it...just near it. and if you don't find the nest, hand feed it. get the right equipment like a seringe and bird handfeeding formula.

Answer 8

Canned cat food on a popsicle stick, nudge the beak til it opens, place the food in and GENTLY nudge the food down the throat (too big of a blob could choke it). It will get enough moisture from the wet food, protein, and the texture of regurgitated bugs or worms. Good luck!