Thrush is a medium-sized bird in the thrush family. It is more prominent in that it has white eye circles and a clear eyebrow tattoo is formed along the upper edge of the eye all the way back. It is particularly dazzling. This is also a unique sign of the thrush, and the advantages and disadvantages of the thrush are generally in it. Highlighted on her eyebrow lines.
The thrush bird is good at singing, and the sound is very loud and tactful, it is a very famous cage bird. In addition, they are very omnivorous birds. In addition to eating some insects, they also eat grass seeds and some wild fruits. They are easy to raise and are very popular among bird lovers. In ancient times, there was a poem by the poet Ouyang Xiu praising Thrush: "Hundreds and thousands of sounds move freely, and the mountain flowers are red and purple."
For birds that are famous for singing, it would be more perfect if they were closer. Therefore, as the technique of hand-raising chicks is becoming more and more mature today, many bird lovers like to take chicks from artificial breeders to raise them. How do we feed such a weak "nest" thrush?
Let’s take a look at the growth process of thrush in nature!
The breeding of thrushes takes place from Qingming to the summer solstice. Each breeding lays 3-5 eggs, the color of the eggs is sky blue or light blue with brown spots. The chicks break their shells after hatching for two weeks.
Before the chicks open their eyes, they rely on their parents to prey and feed. The chicks began to eat on the second day after the hull was broken. After 10 days, they gradually opened their eyes, their bodies began to grow feather tubes, and they started to eat more. The nestlings begin to emerge from the nest in about 25-30 days, but the thrush that has just emerged from the nest has a poor ability to forage on its own. It requires the parent bird to continue to feed for about 3 weeks to completely leave the nest, and then follow the mother bird to pass by 6-7 weeks of outdoor survival exercise can basically live independently.
Understand the breeding habits of thrush birds in the wild, and then look at how to feed artificial thrush chicks?
(1) Feeding thrushes of “nest chicks” is more troublesome, so I won’t say much about the food. There are special chicks “milk powder” on the basic market.
(2) Feeding frequency: two For chicks during the week, it is best to eat once every two hours during the day. The chicks after two weeks. It is fed once about three hours a day, and no feeding is required at night.
(3) Feeding method: Use bamboo chips to pick an appropriate amount of milk powder, and lightly touch the chicks’ mouths. When the chicks are hungry, they will open their mouths to eat. The state puts the provoked food into the chick's mouth.
According to this method, after one month of feeding, the chick has basically full feathers. At this time, we can train it to eat by itself. You can use bamboo slices to pick up food to lure it, but don’t put it in its mouth, and let it take the initiative to eat bamboo slices. It may be clumsy at first, but it’s still a bite, but it’s okay. Good start. Another way is to use small insects to lure them. You can put the small insects that it likes to eat in the food cup, let it try to eat in the cup a few times, and then learn to peck by itself.
When the chicks learn to eat independently, they can add calcium foods, such as cuttlefish bone meal and eggshell powder. Thrush birds that are new to eating must pay attention to the temperature of the environment and the hygiene in the cage. When the chicks are fed artificially, the chicks do not need to feed water because they have sufficient food water, but when they eat independently, they must provide water every day to avoid death due to lack of water!
The above is basically the feeding method of chicks thrush. Does it feel easy to feed? As long as you have enough care and patience, I believe you will have a lively, healthy and loved little thrush bird!
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