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Marvin
I have a baby parakeet who is about 3-4 weeks old who has splayed legs. He is such a sweet baby and I am hand feeding him. He is healthy and is a love even with his handicap. I was wondering about weaning him (sp). Not sure how to do this, not sure he will eat seed. Will I have to hand feed him forever. What kinds of things can I get him for his cage to make him more comfortable. He can get around and has attempted to fly.
Answer I have been very fortunate in that out of 100+ baby budgies every year I have never had one with splayed legs. If he is around 3-4 weeks old you could try a splint for his legs, various websites can be found on this subject using google and searching for splayed leg remedies. As far as hand feeding, yes you should absolutely wean your bird at some point within the next few weeks. Remember that Weaning means to SLOWLY take away the feedings. If you just stopped feeding him today he/she would starve to death. I am not sure what your feeding schedule is now, but in the next week I would have water and seed available to him at all times. Pellet diets would be a better choice for the bird's health and would be alot easier to start him on pellets than try to wean him off seed later. Seed diet is like me and you going to McDonalds every day of the week for every meal we eat. It's not very nutrional and it certainly has very few positive things.
Slowly take away a feeding a day and keep it like that for a week. The next week take another feeding away, and so on.. depending on how many times a day you are feeding. Eventually you should be down to one hand feeding a day. After a solid week of that, you can essentially stop hand feeding him as he should be eating and drinking on his own at that point. Ad far as the cage goes, there is no real set formula for how to arrange your cage and toys. Each bird has his/her own personality and you must adjust for that. If your bird appears more comfortable hiding out in a corner, give him something like a pet cozy tent thing and other toys that he can hide in and behind. The trick is to find several different items that the bird really enjoys and rotate them out on a bi-monthly basis in order to prevent him from getting bored with one particular toy.
Best of luck!
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