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#48
10th August 2008, 07:31 PM
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Get a small bowl or cup, fill it up close to the top, hold it in front of the bird and dip your finger in the water a few times as if your finger is drinking. If the bird dips its beak, it might figure it out pretty quick. I usually have to gently push them by the back of the head and get the front half of the beak in the water a time or two for a second. Somewhere in there, they figure it out.
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#52
10th August 2008, 07:51 PM
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It depends on how much there is of the constituents. For instance, there's a kind of white that ends up being relatively voluminous that you only see when they're pretty near death due to privation. The black that you're talking about is probably very dark green--smear some onto a piece of white paper and look at it under flourescent lighting. If it smears real thinly, there's probably not much by way of true solids in it, which would mean that it was mostly bile. They keep producing the stuff even when there's nothing to digest in their systems.
Pidgey
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#53
10th August 2008, 07:56 PM
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Take a look at the seeds in this picture:
 Excepting the fruit that you got in the other stuff, pick out the larger stuff like the dried peas and popcorn and start feeding him some of those the hard way for awhile. The way you do that is to hold him with the left hand with your fingers wrapped around his head from behind so that you can hold his beak open with those fingers when you get it open using your right hand and fingers. Then you can roll down a dried pea or a kernel of corn. Try to get 30 or 40 of those down him one at a time--let him swallow each one before going on to the next one. They're big enough that you don't have to worry about them going down the airway. Pidgey
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#54
10th August 2008, 08:03 PM
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He/her is eating but the poop I was speaking of was when the little one pooped in my husbands hand!
He said was just like when a bird poops on your windshield of the car. I m checking in the cage now, and it all looks like that, is it bad ?? Thanks so much for staying with me and trying to help me, its so much appreciated with all my heart and soul!!! Robin
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#56
10th August 2008, 08:09 PM
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Well, to give you an idea, they'll eat somewhere on the order of a tablespoon or two of seeds per day, roughly the same on the water. So, if he's eating 1/4 of a teaspoon's worth a day, he needs to eat a lot more. You'll want to see either a lot of small poops or a few really big ones (they can save up). Try to indicate what the size of the poops are like using some universal term like raisins, marbles, lima beans, whatever.
Pidgey
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#60
10th August 2008, 08:22 PM
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It walks wobble like a new born, unsure of himself, god I wish I had a video to show you!!!
What is wilted???? Robin P.S. May husband says now he is pecking out of his hand, the seeds you told us to try and feed him.........
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