Big UPDATE: Parakeet eggs!!!!!!!

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We've had many many many changes with our parakeet eggs that our parakeet, Carla, laid in the bottom of the cage unexpectedly! One is that Carla abandoned the eggs and they have been in the incubator with our chicken eggs for the past week!
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They are planned to hatch next week!
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There are 3 but 2 are developing...the other doesn't look any good.

So, since this is my first time trying to hatch out parakeet eggs and raise them from babies, I need some advice from anyone who has done it before!
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I have a syringe ready for feeding and I know to feed them every 2-3 hours. And since I couldn't find any formula at the pet store, I made my own. I mean, if Carla was feeding them, she would be feeding them regurgitated seeds and some veggies, basically. So, I blended up parakeet seed into almost a powder, then also blended a carrot and an apple. I mixed it all together and added some water to make it like oatmeal. Hopefully it will work!
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And it's perfect timing, since it takes them 4 weeks before they can be on their own without feeding, because right at that time I have to go back to school and won;t be able to feed them. But by then they will be old enough to eat on their own.
I can't wait for them to hatch! I'm planning on teaching them how to talk when they get older and they will be so tame and friendly.
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Any advice at all is greatly appreciated!
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PM me your address and I will mail you some baby formula. It is very hard to raise them from hatching because they are TINY and their mouth is too small. You may have to dab some food in their mouth with a toothpick at first. The stuff I use is called Exact bird feeding formula.

http://www.kaytee.com/products/exact-hand-feeding-baby-bird.php

It works on lovebirds, cockatiels and finches, so it ought to work for parakeets too. My sister raised a lovebird from day one. She said she will NEVER do it again. It about killed her because she didn't have anyone to help and she had to sneak it in to work with her and hide it on a heating pad in her desk, then take it home. His name was Peanut.
 
My mom used to breed baby parakeets. Our pair were so prolific they were kicking babies out before they were ready so they could lay more eggs.

We would feed the babies Human baby cereal, like banana flavor made into a paste. They did really well on it.

Good luck!
 
Nothing. I will put a ziplock baggie in a plain old envelope an just snail mail it to you. You would only have to make a TINY bit at at time. First couple weeks I would use the baby formula to make sure it has a good start. After that maybe you could switch to human baby food.
 
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OK thanks so much I will just make sure with my mom before PMing you!
Thank you again!
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Also, about how much time would it take for it to get here? The eggs are planned to hatch later this week.
 
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You are welcome! If you are going to go to all that effort, i would like to see you have the best possible chance of success! Tell your mom she can give me a different address than your home address if she wants. Maybe I can send it to her Care Of her work.
 
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I'm a little worried that it will be too late because school starts again on Sept. 1st and I read that baby parakeets might still have to eat on their own after 8 weeks...I thought it was 4 weeks??? I'm at school for 8 hours and by the time they are around 8 weeks they need to be fed every 6 hours...so it would be cutting it close.
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Just do what you can. If they are already four weeks old the won't die from waiting a couple extra hours. It is not perfect, but life never is. Sill, if it was me, I'd not want to try to raise them. It's not the last four weeks, that's a cake walk. It's the first four weeks that will be very hard to do.
I had older baby finches i was hand raising and I just fed them twice a day and they did fine. I was working 12 hour shifts and they survived and fledged and are doing great in the flock now. They were parent raised and the mother got out when I was cleaning the cage, so I had to finish them out myself for a couple of weeks. It wasn't so bad.
 

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