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Tropican Hand Feeding Formula provides proper daily nutrition for baby parrots up to fledgling, which is a critical age of a parrot’s life. Its flavorful recipe simplifies transition to the next Tropican Life Cycle Formula.
HARI’s own Josee Bermingham and Suzanne Comer discuss:
- Storage and preparation considerations
- Feeding preparation (volume of dry formula to water, mixing techniques)
- Syringe preparation
- Feeding temperature considerations
- Advantages and concerns of the syringe-feeding techniques
- Health concerns associated with syringe feeding at too high or low temperature
- Health concerns associated with syringe feeding: crop enlargement and aspiration
- Health concerns associated with prolonged syringe feeding
- Health concerns associated with syringe feeding: potential beak deviations and trauma
- Health concerns associated with feeding tip adaptors and feeding tubes
- Micro-tipped pipettes
- Syringe-feeding techniques
Need more information about feeding methods for baby parrots, read Mark Hagen’s research paper: Psittacine Pediatrics: Housing and Feeding of Baby Parrots and Nutritional Observations, Hand-Feeding Formulas, and Digestion in Exotic Birds