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Feather plucking

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Question
My mama cockastiel has 5 babies almost 4 weeks old and she is plucking the feathers from the babies. what should I do.should I remove them fro their box into another cage and feed them myself.  They are getting really to big for the breeding box .  please help asap

Answer
Hello if the mother is mutaltins them...ie plucking tehre feathers take them away and handfed them Heres a good link for all teh  info on handfeeding you will need. i do have handfeeding experiance and can offer some insight onto the subject but if yuo've enver hadnfed before it would take me forever to write all the information.  http://www.j-birds.com/handfeed.html           Good luck.