cold baby

[bird_14]

i found one of my babys bout a week old . Cold and brought him over and we fedding hand formula katees. and placing it on a heating pad on low the other baby is fine just put him by a heat lamp any thing else to do.

[Christina Coughlin]

Sounds like your on the right track!

Do you have something to keep the babies in? I have used baskets lined in towels, cardboard boxes, anything to keep them contained and warm. If you have a way of checking the temperature make sure it is about 85 degrees for them if they are getting feathers now. If they are still acting cold then raise the heat just a little, as you already know they are pretty good at showing if they are cold or not. Do you have a gram scale? That is one of my most used items with my birds epsecially with chicks, you can see things when they are going well or going wrong so much faster when you weigh them. Mine is just a kitchen scale that weighs in grams not one of those fancy "just for birds" ones!

If they aren't acting right then you know something needs to be changed but it sounds to me like your on the right track and you will be fine.

[bird_14]

the baby was cold probly because it was realy foggy the smorin and the mother probly got off them to early. The fog probly came in the window and it was moist. They are fine now.