Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds,9780812095814

Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds

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ISBN13: 9780812095814
ISBN10: 0812095812
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-10-01
Publisher(s): Barrons Educational Series Inc
List Price: $14.99

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Summary

Provides information on natural and artificial incubation, feeding, properutrition, hand-feeding, and health problems faced by baby birds.

Table of Contents

Preface vi
From Egg to Hatchling, an Introduction
1(22)
The Ancestors
1(1)
The Eggshell
2(4)
Eggshell Repair
6(2)
Number of Eggs
8(1)
Nests
9(3)
Brooding Behavior
12(3)
Hatchlings
15(3)
Inside the Eggshell
18(5)
Natural Incubation
23(15)
Making the Most of Your Hobby
23(2)
Selecting and Managing Breeding Stock
25(1)
When to Breed
26(1)
Pairing Off
26(2)
Nest Building
28(3)
Inspecting Nests
31(2)
Candling
33(1)
After Hatching
34(1)
Almost Grown
35(1)
Closing the Breeding Season
36(2)
The Nursery
38(21)
Introduction
38(1)
Setting up and Equipping the Nursery
39(5)
Sanitation
44(8)
Banding Chicks
52(3)
Record Keeping
55(4)
Incubation
59(29)
What You Need to Know About Incubation
59(1)
Brooding Birds
60(5)
Artificial Incubation: History
65(2)
Brooding in the Incubator
67(2)
Temperature Regulation
69(8)
Brooding with the Motorized Incubator
77(4)
Temperature and Aviculture: an Overview
81(1)
Humidity and Aviculture: an Overview
82(1)
Lighting
82(1)
Substrate (Bedding)
83(1)
Types of Brooder Containers
83(2)
Chicks and Their Care and Management
85(3)
Proper Avian Nutrition
88(8)
Introduction
88(1)
Food Quality
89(7)
Feeding Tools and How to Use Them
96(6)
Introduction
96(1)
Pipettes
96(1)
Tube-feeding (Catheter or Tube)
97(2)
Bulb Syringes
99(1)
Piston Syringes
99(1)
Spoon-feeding
100(1)
Gavage Needles
101(1)
Feeding and Weaning Chicks
102(16)
Introduction
102(1)
Feeding Day-old Baby Birds
103(2)
Feeding Older Chicks
105(3)
Methods of Feeding Chicks
108(3)
Growth Rates
111(2)
Weaning
113(5)
Hand-feeding Step-by-Step (Practical Notes)
118(12)
Introduction
118(1)
Temperament Differences
119(1)
Hand-feeding Amazon Parrots
120(2)
Hand-feeding Blue and Gold Macaws
122(2)
Hand-feeding Lories and Lorikeets
124(1)
Hand-feeding Pionus Species
125(1)
Hand-feeding Finches
126(2)
Hand-feeding Mynahs
128(2)
Health Problems
130(11)
Introduction
130(1)
Diseases, Symptoms, and Treatments
130(11)
Glossary 141(3)
Useful Literature and Addresses 144(3)
Index 147

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