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Hey guys,

I'm bee to this site is this topic may have already been discussed, but,

I have a 6 week old IRN called Zeus. He has never been hand fed and as a result is extremely hard to feed, and I'm terrified of him starving!!

He won't eat from a bent spoon and I have to carefully "force feed" him. I don't want to traumatise him by force feeding him but I don't want him to starve!!

Please help!!!

Bump

Haha what's wrong with that??

molossus wrote:why in heaven would you want to feed a parent reared 6 week old bird?

1) Because the parents died from a bacterial infection in the crop (heaven knows how the chick survived).
2) Because there is an extremely dominant sibling starting to kill and/or starve the other chicks just prior to fledging.
3) ?

Not common, but it has happened to us over the years.

To answer the original question, you will have best results using a crop needle. Most people are not fond of them, however. Throw a towel over the wild baby bird, wrap it up like a new born human baby with just the face sticking out, and use the needle.

Thank you for all the replies.

I have him just because my friends mum breed them as aviary birds and when she said there were babies in the nest I asked if I could have one and rear him. The parents are both alive and well, as are the siblings.

I have had success with a tube on the end of a syringe (indented for crop tubing) and let him play with the moving tip, as he put it in his mouth I just give him little bits at a time until he finishes his food