Greetings from Pakistan

The female parrot of this was found dead in the cage. i got them around 5 days back from a local vendor who had dozens of birds in his shop.
Dont know if the underlying infection rose in here that it carried from the store :-(
I am very upset :(
I'm really sorry to hear of your loss. Fly free and high little one, over the mountains. I will tell you about my trips to Pakistan later on.
 
Spoon feeding means the chick controls how much it wants this is the method i use.
The spoon i use is called a grapefruit spoon which is easy to make with a hammer bending a stainless steel spoon just make sure there are no Sharpe edges when you finish bending.
if you Google grapefruit spoon you will see the shape your aiming for i have a video somewhere from a few years ago of one a cockatiel chick i hand fed will see if I can find it for you.
 
It's quite possible to spoon feed birds with a normal spoon; we managed with ours, though I think we may have found it easier with a shaped one, particularly as we were not very experienced with the procedure. It's hard to find grapefruit-type spoons here too! The breeder we got ours from is a professional breeder who raises a lot of babies, and seems to have no trouble spoon feeding all of his with an ordinary teaspoon:

(The babies in the video are two canary-winged parakeets and a jenday conure, or possibly a sun conure.)
 
my goodness! what a small world! did you like Islamabad? I am from Peshawar, which neighbors Afghanistan. A medical doctor by profession and working for Autism with all my. heart and soul.

i just got the bad news that one of the parrots died all of a sudden with no illness whatsoever... now i am wondering how this. happened!!

so were you in Islamabad for a while? wish i had known you then, we would definitely have met with regards to our parrots :)
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Hello, apart from your loss yesterday I hope everything is OK there.
I didnt have a parrot when I was in Pakistan. My father was at (was is now) PAF Kohat south of Peshawar and I always remember being fascinated by his tales of being there. I have spent about 6 months in the country in total and was lucky to have travelled before the restrictions.
I was first in Pakistan in 1986 backpacking and sightseeing (Murree, Gilgit, Hunza etc), then returned in 1988 to cycle the Karakoram Highway ( I made it as far as Hunza but had a nasty chest infection). We then were caught up in a bit of civil unrest (May 1988) and had to return to be flown out of Gilgit back to Islamabad, and so we then cycled over to Peshawar for a while (arriving during a heatwave). On the way back to Islamabad we met a chap who was working with amputees and I still have my journal entry saying I would love to do something similar .......... fast forward to almost 20 years later and I had trained as an Occupational Therapist and saw a WHO call for volunteers to help in Islamabad (National Institute for the Handicapped) after the 2006 earthquake with rehabilitation of spinal injuries so applied and found myself spending a month teaching Physiotherapists how to work like Occupational Therapists and both make and use equipment and adaptations to enable people to return to some sort of independence with their families.
Following your questions about feeding - one of the things we made were adapted (bent) spoons to allow people to feed themselves again - we bought cheap spoons in the market and bent them to suit the persons hand grip and arm function.
Look forward to hearing more about your flock. :)
 
:welcome: to the forum.

Which is the baby parrot is it you are feeding and how long have you been doing this. Also how are you feeding at the moment is it every few hours or what?

I have not got any videos although some members may know of a link to them.

If you can give a little more information members may be able to advise.
@CaptainHowdy @Michael Reynolds @Roz anyone else please can you respond.
I’m feeding every 8 hours. 12 cc of kaytee.
But the baby parrot is not liking the syringe at all. He literally pushes it out from its tongue.
There was food in a syringe and he was wanting to eat that. When I allowed him, he ate so well. The age is 2 months
 
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