What to feed the nestlings that children picked up on the street

Very often children bring from the street nestlings, ostensibly dropped out of the nest, and begin to care for them with tears. Arrange in a box a nest, stack on cotton wool or cloths and ask adults what to feed the chicks that fell out of the nest?

To force the baby to take the chick to where it came from, not every parent is capable of, although he understands that he will have to take care of the foundling.

Chick mode

Eating chicks is often required, every 15-20 minutes. It will be possible to interrupt only for a night's sleep and the feeding should be resumed no later than the sun will rise.

What to feed the chicks depends on the species of birds to which they belong. There is an opportunity at home to feed the chicks of a swallow, a songbird, a sparrow, a swift, a crow, or a dove. Almost all the chicks can be returned to the place where they were found, and parents will surely take care of them.

Do not return to the place only small swifts. Swifts to the chick fallen out of the nest can not help, they do not know how to fly off the ground. To distinguish a swift from a swallow, it is possible by the feet - at swifts all fingers look forward.

Menu for chicks

The children found a young bird of a sparrow. What to feed the bird?

Despite the fact that adult birds are happy to peck seeds, the nestlings are fed with protein food. For food, flour worms and live bloodworms are available, which can be purchased at pet stores, earthworms - they can be dug out on their own, flies are also caught by their own hands.

Ideally, feeding takes place every 20 minutes - if not, at least once an hour. In the beak of the chick, a piece of food must be pushed, opening it by force. If you can not get a living food, then you need to mix pieces of egg yolk, cottage cheese and minced meat and make tiny balls. The nestling can not peck, but to 3-4 feeds understands that it is required to open the "mouth".

What to feed the baby bluebird? His diet does not differ from the diet of the sparrow. The only thing, a titmouse bird may need mineral supplements and vitamins, which will have to be introduced along with the feed. Nestlings of titmice are less often found, these birds hide their nests from people. It often happens that parents, frightened by people, lose a chick, and when the children find it, it is weakened enough.

Swallows do not return to the wild nature

Often, children bring small swallows home. These birds arrange nests on the last floors of human dwellings and under the balconies. How to feed the chicks of these birds? Swallows eat always protein food, and therefore feeding swallows is no different from nursing chicks of sparrows. But it must be remembered: if birds of other species are gradually transferred to grain forage during the growing up period and can leave the hospitable hosts, the swallow, fed in captivity, is not returned to freedom. True, live food can be replaced with a bird as a surrogate - translate it into minced meat. Feed the chicks swallow enough once an hour.

When it is clear what to feed the chicks, you need to clarify what to drink and how? And most importantly, is it necessary? You can drip a couple of drops of water, introducing it further into the beak, from the pipette, but birds in the wild do not sing their chicks - they have enough moisture from live food.

In order that children do not bring small birds home, parents should explain to the child that the scrolls - most often children bring chicks that flew out of the nest, still without flinched - flew out of the nest and waited for the mother to feed and take care of him. And do not bring such chicks home, it is better to return to the same place that parents found. At home, it is quite difficult to raise a chicken.