How do i take care of this baby??! 10 points will be awarded?

Question

Its a baby bird!.. my grandma told me to feed it oatmeal and worms?..

but if you can give me any more info on how to take care of it, i would really apprectiate it!!!

please and thank you.

i'll pick best answer tommorow

Answer 1

you should take it to a animal hospital... that's probably the best thing to do, i tried to take care of a baby bird one time, but i passed away, i cried... u don't wanna go through that!

Answer 2

It sounds like it's old enough to have full worms. Try and figure out how old it is exactly, that way you don't over/under feed it.

Feed it something with high protein (scrambled eggs w/ as little or no oil as possible). Don't make that it's staple diet though. Maybe once a week.

If it's old enough, you could try wax worms, crickets, or anything around that size.

It might- big might- go for ground up corn and egg shell (or oyster shell). Go to a pet store and/or animal shelter and see what they suggest.

And you really shouldn't hand raise it. If you let it go, it's likely to die cause it won't know how to get food, what's dangerous, etc. That's why it's illegal to touch/raise wild birds.

By the way, DO NOT TRY TO PUT IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since it already has a human scent on it, the parents will either kill it (as cruel as it sounds), or they'll ignore it and it'll starve.

Good luck!

Answer 3

You should feed it baby bird formula (formulated for all baby birds, available at most pet stores)...warm..can test on rist to make sure it is not too hot or use a thermometer and give it at 103 degrees with a syringe only a few drops at a time to make sure it does not choke. This is only if you have already tried to put it where it was found first to see if the parents were not watching for it. Birds will escape the nest but parents usually follow and watch it and continue to feed it. Also keep it contained well...as most wild baby birds are infested with mites that are so tiny you have to look very close to see them under the feathers

Answer 4

Determine its age. Does it have feathers?

If not and you know where the nest is located, replace the hatchling in the nest. The parents will take it from there.

If it is feathered and not obviously injured (broken wing, leg, etc.), clear all pets and children away from the fledgling and observe it for an hour. Chances are the parents will return for it. They may be waiting until all the hoopla has died down before approaching the youngster.

I tried all that, I don't know where the nest is and/or the parents haven't returned. What do I do now?

Carefully pick up the baby and put it immediately in a small cardboard box or plastic food container large enough for the bird to stand up in or move around a bit. (Try to have the container ready before you pick up the bird; this will reduce stress on the animal.) Use facial tissue, toilet tissue or paper toweling for padding and cover the container LOOSELY with a towel leaving a small gap at the edge for good air circulation. Place the box in a warm, QUIET area of the house and call your local wildlife rehabilitation center (see below) for further instructions. Do not offer the bird food or water until you have spoken with them and avoid peeking at or disturbing the bird.

Answer 5

Regular bird food, worms, bread soaked in water!

Answer 6

you can put bread soaked in milk .  i did this before and  the babies got feathers and could fly i let them free.

Answer 7

feed it worms,water bowl

Answer 8

You should NEVER feed a bird worms OR milk, very few kinds of birds eat worms in the wild anyways, and worms have parasites that will kill a baby bird. And mammals are the only creatures that can digest milk--feeding it to a bird will only make the bird sick, which if it's young can be extremely dangerous. Judging by your description it's also way too old to be eating formula, which is all the better because an inexperienced person trying to feed a baby bird formula is likely to harm the bird by mistake, accidentally making the formula too hot or too cold (every species has different temperature requirements), or accidentally injecting it down the bird's windpipe.

You say it has feathers and can "sort of" fly; that means it is a fledgling, it isn't in enough "danger" to justify taking it. Baby birds leave the nest before they are very good at flying; their parents lead them around to safe places and coax them to fly and eventually they become better at it. I know you mean well, but keeping it in your home instead of outside is not helping it, it is preventing it from this crucial time in which its parents should be teaching it to fend for itself.

If the parents are still around (ie. you haven't found their dead bodies), put the fledgling somewhere outside--like on the porch railing or a large upturned plant pot, somewhere off the ground and out of a wandering cat's immediate line of sight. Leave it there alone for as much of the day as you can afford to do so, and the parents should come for it and lead it off; even if they've already left with the other babies, believe me they WILL come back for it, mother and father birds won't abandon a live baby. You can check on it a few times while it's there, but try to stay out of sight and don't approach it unless something is really wrong (ie. you see a cat stalking it, it's being rained on or the sun has gotten really hot and is beating down on it), or else you may scare the parents off again. Before they come, feed it every so often to make sure it keeps its strength up; I will explain what to feed it below.

You do not, and I repeat, NOT have to worry about the parents abandoning it, much less killing it--people really need to stop spreading these so-called "facts". That's nothing but an old wives' tale, a complete load of c**p. Having grown up on a farm with a lot of birds' nests around I've been in lots of situations where I had no choice but to handle baby birds, and nothing bad EVER came of it. The only reason a bird will abandon its nest is if the eggs/babies are dead, or if it is continually chased away from its nest every time it shows up. Almost no bird species even have a good enough sense of smell to even pick up your scent! Their sense of smell is horrible! You actually have a keener sense of smell than the bird does. You have NOTHING to worry about.

If the parents are dead or they just never come for the baby, then I'm sorry to say you cannot keep it and raise it yourself, a lot of people think this is a good thing to do but it is actually illegal, and anyone who is found in possession of a wild bird species will be fined thousands of dollars, regardless of why they took it in. Your best bet is to find a local wildlife rehabilitator--there's a very good regional list at http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.... which should help you find someone. They are certified to take in and rehabilitate wild animals, you can bring them the bird and they will do everything they can to make sure it grows up to live in the wild, or at least in captivity if that isn't possible.

In order to feed the bird while it is in your care, buy some good canned cat food from your local pet or grocery store and feed it little bits of that. That is full of meat proteins, which young birds need in order to grow healthy and strong; things like bread and grains feel filling but they don't pass as a "complete" diet for a baby bird because they lack the protein and vitamins young birds need. If you don't have any on hand at the moment you can give it small bits of plain cooked chicken.

Answer 9

How old is it?  If you are supposed to feed him/her worms then you should cut the worms into pieces depending on the size of the bird the younger the bird is the smaller the pieces need to be, as the bird gets bigger you can start to feed him/her whole worms, when you are feeding the worms sometimes you have to use tweezers or something on the lines of them, to get the worm in its mouth without getting bit.

Answer 10

feed them sscrambled eggs thats what we always did.

Give it to him with a tookpick