Children of nature - chicks of sparrows

Have you found a wounded baby sparrow at your dacha? Or at the last moment snatched from the mouth of a cat? To release a chick in this case is a pity and I want to cure him, but he needs some kind of care. Let's try together to figure out how to care for chicks of sparrows.

First of all, you need to know some information about sparrows. Read the various articles and see how the sparrow chick lives in nature . The photo helps to see their habitat. Children often ask parents about how many chicks a sparrow can have and what they need to feed. The number of eggs depends on the bird species. For example, in the laying of a house sparrow, their number varies from 2 to 10.

Now let us turn to the issue of feeding sparrows. Denote the main points of this process:

1. Nestling, hand-fed, considers you a flock, so it will have to be left at home - it may not survive in nature.

2. Feeding the chicks with bread is strictly prohibited!

3. If you give cottage cheese to the sparrow, then it must be washed with boiling water three times. Its fat content should be minimal - ideally 0%.

Chicks of sparrows are more likely to survive in a real environment than in your home. If you found Ptahu on the street, it is better to transplant it to some elevation (a fence, a bush, a barn, etc.). But if you still decided to feed the chick yourself, you need to finish reading the article to the end.
To follow this "child" is necessary, as for his own, and even more carefully. Caring for a young sparrow will take 15-20 minutes each hour. Feed the chick before saturation. The metabolism of sparrows is very high, and therefore, you can not leave them without food for more than three hours.

Litter sparrow must be cleaned immediately. Its appearance is an indicator of proper nutrition.

In nature, chicks of sparrows are fed insects, so you can also bring the chick such food. Feed them with larvae of flies, ant cocoons. You can also give ptaham chopped chicken eggs, cottage cheese and even carrots. Naturally, birds need vitamin and mineral supplements. On live cocoons you can grow a chick, but on one cottage cheese - no.

The sparrow can be kept in a small box. After the chicks of the sparrows grow up and start trying to fly out of this "nest", you need to place the bird in a small cage with a soft and dry litter (you can take dry crushed grass or moss). At the age of 4-5 days, young sparrows need warmth.

It is most convenient to give food to chicks from tweezers. If the chick does not open its mouth, then a light click on the beak or a shaking of the litter can help. In extreme cases, you have to open the beak violently. From the age of 15, accustom the chick to eat yourself. Spread the food in a cage. When the chick starts picking food from the floor, get him a feeder. Over time, a wide cage is needed to allow the bird to fly. Do not forget to water the chick: put the pipette to the tip of its beak. The water must be boiled. Milk and other drinks can not be given.

Consider the composition of one mixture, which can be prepared as a feed for a young sparrow: grate the carrot on a small grater, squeeze out all the juice. Cook the hard-boiled egg and repeat the previous steps (except squeezing). Add meat to the mixture. Use the boiled chicken breast. Grind it with a knife, dividing into fibers. Do the same with a salad or dandelion leaves (about a tablespoon). Now take 100 g of low-fat cottage cheese, wring out liquid from it. Then add cottage cheese 2 tbsp. Spoons of millet porridge (without salt and oil). Add a teaspoon of ground dry daphnia or gammarus, calcium glycerophosphate (1 tablet per liter of the finished mixture). Pound the eggshell (0.5 teaspoonfuls). Now mix everything and let it brew. Then make small balls from the resulting mixture and start feeding the pet.

Now you know that chicks of sparrows can survive at home. We wish you good luck in such a difficult business as growing a baby sparrow.