I know so many times this has been brought up but ive done everything I can think of to intice him to pump she weighs 975 cc this morning before feeding, in order to feed her I hold the front of her beek and pump for her as she sligtly bites down on my finger and she took all 90 cc this morning before she pulls away but she wont pump.
She only pumps the first 10 cc or 20 cc then stops and wont go any more till I hold her beek and pump for her and slowly put formula in, she has never asperated the formula as I take my time, I only started to pump for her when she only would take about 20 cc's.
She does eat broken up pellets and we are now going to start with a lot more vegies and fruits as many as possible including soaking pellets in water and take the toys out of the cage as I beleive she is in the beginning stages of weining.
Her droppings are perfect and her weight has dropped from about 1050 to 975 and so far maintained that 975.
Now we did have our 8 week old blue throat in the same cage and now we have seperated the two as every time I put the two together the blue and gold wants to start feeding the blue throat, just this morning I put the two together and the blue and gold started to try and regurgitate.
Now the blue throat is 800 cc and getting 55 cc each feeding 4 times a day but wont pump more than that so we are also going to start putting weining food in the cage to her as well.
Now we did have them shipped in this last saturday from back east 6 hour flight and sense that day the blue and gold has never pumped for me and the blue throat has and has done very good but now she is slowly backing down to where I now feed her 4 times a day of 55cc instead of the 70 to 80 cc she would take first day or two.
Both have very clean awsome homes and temp is around 85 deg where they are at and due to shortage of Zupreem we gave them what we could get till this last Tuesday we gave them Hagen formula which the blue throat never minded but both where rasied on Zupreem so we first thought it was just the formula but now with the Zupreem the blue throat is still showing same signs and the blue throat is slowing down.
The temp given to each in feeding is right about 109 deg to 106.
As they where being rasied the breeder would give in each feeding one 1/4 teaspoon of applesause and also plain yogart so I carried on that till last night where I now put in applesauce and a natural bacterial additive I got from the bird store that replaces the yogart.
I beleive these are signs of weining due to the crap load of reading Im doing and also from my past experiances with rasing birds.
They also both climb all over their cages the blue and gold when I pull him from the cage he flaps his wings very hard to try and lift off, the blue throat flaps her wings in side the cage all the time, but not outside her cage.
The blue throat shows signs of being still timid but is slowly warming up to us more and more, the blue and gold we can do anything to her but both always want to go back to the cages everytime we get them out unless we take the cage out of sight.
We prune them and cuddle them to death.
Any help would be great if any out their has any to add.
She only pumps the first 10 cc or 20 cc then stops and wont go any more till I hold her beek and pump for her and slowly put formula in, she has never asperated the formula as I take my time, I only started to pump for her when she only would take about 20 cc's.
She does eat broken up pellets and we are now going to start with a lot more vegies and fruits as many as possible including soaking pellets in water and take the toys out of the cage as I beleive she is in the beginning stages of weining.
Her droppings are perfect and her weight has dropped from about 1050 to 975 and so far maintained that 975.
Now we did have our 8 week old blue throat in the same cage and now we have seperated the two as every time I put the two together the blue and gold wants to start feeding the blue throat, just this morning I put the two together and the blue and gold started to try and regurgitate.
Now the blue throat is 800 cc and getting 55 cc each feeding 4 times a day but wont pump more than that so we are also going to start putting weining food in the cage to her as well.
Now we did have them shipped in this last saturday from back east 6 hour flight and sense that day the blue and gold has never pumped for me and the blue throat has and has done very good but now she is slowly backing down to where I now feed her 4 times a day of 55cc instead of the 70 to 80 cc she would take first day or two.
Both have very clean awsome homes and temp is around 85 deg where they are at and due to shortage of Zupreem we gave them what we could get till this last Tuesday we gave them Hagen formula which the blue throat never minded but both where rasied on Zupreem so we first thought it was just the formula but now with the Zupreem the blue throat is still showing same signs and the blue throat is slowing down.
The temp given to each in feeding is right about 109 deg to 106.
As they where being rasied the breeder would give in each feeding one 1/4 teaspoon of applesause and also plain yogart so I carried on that till last night where I now put in applesauce and a natural bacterial additive I got from the bird store that replaces the yogart.
I beleive these are signs of weining due to the crap load of reading Im doing and also from my past experiances with rasing birds.
They also both climb all over their cages the blue and gold when I pull him from the cage he flaps his wings very hard to try and lift off, the blue throat flaps her wings in side the cage all the time, but not outside her cage.
The blue throat shows signs of being still timid but is slowly warming up to us more and more, the blue and gold we can do anything to her but both always want to go back to the cages everytime we get them out unless we take the cage out of sight.
We prune them and cuddle them to death.
Any help would be great if any out their has any to add.
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