Important Notes About Hand Feeding Baby Canaries
By Connie Soto
2008 ©
In my
experience, I find the eye dropper to be the safest way to hand feed new baby
canaries. Syringes do not offer enough control when administering the liquid
food for the baby. Air bubbles should be able to be seen in the eye dropper and
should be eliminated before administering the food. Care must be taken not to
create an air bubble in the crop which can cause aspiration and immediate
death. The temperature of the food should never be too hot or too cold. Waiting
until the crop is empty or almost empty helps to prevent a bacterial infection
taking care not to let the baby become too hungry.
Canary Baby Food Ingredients
Ground corn Whole
ground corn with the cob and not the husk
Ground wheat Consists of a coarser grind of wheat flour
Corn gluten meal A by-product of corn maize processing
Ground oat groats Cleaned oats ground without the hulls
Wheat middlings The product remaining after the
flour is extracted from the wheat
Dried whole eggs High
quality protein dried eggs
Wheat germ meal Wheat
germ mixed with some bran, middlings or short
Soy protein isolate Dry
powder food ingredient that has been separated almost fat free
Commercial products are typically available locally or readily
available on the Internet. I personally do not make my own baby food and
provide the ingredients here for basic knowledge. In an emergency, a person
could use baby rice cereal for a baby canary in distress. Commercial products
add valuable vitamins, minerals and nutrients that are a necessity for the baby
canary to get a good start in life.