What's going on?

[Backtrackswifey]

Last nightI gave my baby ring-necked dove seeds for the first time. Last night he didn't seem to digest any of them, and they just sayed in his crop. Today, I didn't feed him all day exept for once in the moring and once around 4:30pm. It seems the seeds are slowly emptying. What's going on? Is this bad or good? Did I do something wrong? By the way he's 24 days old. Thanks for listening to my worried mom-ness. Lol.

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Athena Carter

[Feefo]

hello,

I wouldn't change his diet to seed just yet if it is slowing up the emptying of the crop. Slow crop is not a good thing and difficult to overcome.

Cynthia

[TAWhatley]

Be sure the youngster is drinking water .. if not you will need to syringe a bit of water and perhaps massge the crop a little to be sure it doesn't become impacted.

Terry

[Backtrackswifey]

I've been giving him seeds for a while now. He seems to be taking them ok. I think he just had trouble the small sunflower seeds. Thanks for you help everyone.

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Athena Carter

[maryco]

Sunflower seeds are not good for babies, please remove them and only give the small seeds like milo and millet..

Also he might need some grit, if he is over a month old I would offer him a little tiny dish of oyster shell pigeon grit.

Mary

[This message has been edited by maryco (edited April 02, 2004).]

[Backtrackswifey]

I know. Now whenever I feed him I make sure to pick out the seeds. He does Ok with the other seeds though.

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Athena Carter