BABY SQUIRREL????? help me please!!!?

Question

OK my mom and i were wondering about baby squirrels becuse we are rehibilitating it ,it is about 5-6 weeks old and we are wondering ......what age do hey start drinking water so far we are feeding it goats milk and water ...... with a serange it can already curl its tail and its very adorable we keep it in a bird cage we are getting ready to move it out side to get it used to its surrounding and we need your help what do we do when we move it outside ?????? and at what age does it start drinking water?? any advice thanks bye

Answer 1

Sorry for all this extra stuff just kinda got carried away, but they can start drinking water around 5-6 weeks.
Diet- Baby squirrels nurse on their mother until about 4 months of age. Babies do not get back teeth until around 8-10 weeks of age. At around 5 weeks the eyes open. A few days after the eyes open is the time to start putting some solid food into the incubator for them to start "teething" on. There is no need to wean them on mush, etc.. Any Cheerio type round oat cereal is a good first item for babies to chew on. Also whole grain breads are good. Usually after being fed formula, when put back into the incubator, babies go straight for a piece of Cheerio and start chewing. Notice that there will be lots of crumbs. They are just working their teeth. Only when the baby is around 8 weeks do they actual start ingesting the solid food. For a complete list on proper solid foods, see Proper Diet . As a source of calcium, a cleaned beef bone or deer antler should put in cage to chew on. Make sure to get all traces of meat off the bone. Here is a list of foods they CAN and CAN NOT eat: they can eat: Purina- Regular dog chow
Publix Ration Style- dog chow
Rodent chow/block- for rats and mice
Cauliflower-one of the best veggies
Oranges
Strawberry
Watermelon
Endive
Carrots
Kohlrabi
Mustard Greens
Tangerine
Rutabaga
Dandelion Greens
Any whole grain breads
WHAT THEY CAN'T HAVE: Any type of candies
Cherrys
Pineapples
Peaches
Apricots
Eggplant
Regular Lettuce
Sweet Potato
Pumpkin
Grapes- can choke on skin
Bananas-bad ca/ph ratio
Corn- worst veggie
Any dog food with meat and protein levels higher than 22%.
Hamster food. Guinea Pig food. Bird Seed.

Start fedding it water around 5-6 Weeks.. If you need any more info please feel free to e-mail me. Hope this helps

Answer 2

Aww!! How great! That is so sweet! But you do realize, it will never be a wild squirrel once it was raised in captivity. I would say start feeding it around 10-12 weeks old, and introduce it to acorns along that time too. If you have a fenced yard, put it in that, and let it roam around by itself for a while. If he gets out, or climbs a tree, dont go after him. Just leave out some of the food that you usually feed it and some fresh water where it can find it. It will never be completely wild, so it will always depend on you as its mother. Good luck!!

Answer 3

i've got in basic terms considered one infant squirrel and that i wasn't specific what it became. i became walking from the Courthouse to my place of work sooner or later when I observed this tiny crimson infant laying on the floor under a pecan tree. It appeared style of like a mix between a newborn mouse and a kitten, and it had no hair. It became alive so I picked it up and took it to the place of work with me. A co-worker took it to the vet her mom works for, and that's how we found out it became a newborn squirrel. So, i assume they stay in a nest or hollow in wood till they are great adequate to run around on their very own.

Answer 4

you should give it a little dropper thing that's always available (like they ahve for mice and birds) and then it will drink water when it is ready to. also does it have lots of nice warm blankets to curl up in?

i think you should put it outside right now, but give it a little smaller house that it can go into so it will be outside inside :).

what are you feeding it? dog or cat food? i bet you can also get it nuts, but i bet that the baby ones would like cat food a lot. maybe if it got wet too, we used to feed baby birds with wet cat food.

very cute. i think you shoudl look up the answer at a more legitimate place than here cause people will tell you the wrong stuff and it will die. ask a vet for advice.

Answer 5

You MUST not feed the baby squirrel goat's milk. It is not adequate nourishment for a baby squirrel - any squirrel rehabilitation website will tell you this. It needs puppy formula, found at your local pet store. Esbilac is one brand name for it. According to every legitimate rehab information I've ever read, feeding baby squirrels cow or goat's milk will eventually lead to death.

Good information link: http://www.arfsc.homestead.com/Squirrels.html

Answer 6

http://www.arfsc.homestead.com/Squirrels.html

this site will give you excellent info on weaning and releasing it the correct way. Without proper diet it will develop MBD and seizure. And yes, offer it water in a shallow bowl or hamster water bottle (not glass ones--they'll bite it and break it).

Answer 7

you should contact a wildlife rescue or vet or spca for more specific info. are you certified to rehab them? is that required in your area?
contact a professional for the specifics of rearing it and releasing it back to nature...

Answer 8

when they get there teeth in !

Answer 9

http://www.hal-pc.org/~jbsum/squirrel.html

I hope this helps.