How old are these babies?

[lizard of oz]

what are those and those are creepy looking

 

[casportpony]

what are those and those are creepy looking

Baby pigeons.

 

[casportpony]

they should double in size every day. a good food for them is the kay-tee exact formula, usually sold for hand feeding baby parots,but works for all birds, and works the same for requirements of pigeons and doves. or you can get chick feed or laying pellets if cant find pigeon or parrot pellets, and blend up into liquid and then sludge ect.. good luck, and dont worry ive just used ringnecks as fosters as the white ones so dumb but loving theyll care for eggs and babies of any type or age anytime put into nest. or just have heat pad in ten gallon aquarium and feed with corner of plastic bag cupped in one hand so they can just get head into feed works good too.

They aren't doubling each day, but they are gaining weight. Right now I'm tube feeding them the Kaytee baby bird food, it's what I use for any bird that needs tube feeding.

When my birds were about a week old I would only hand feed them twice a day. Mourning & evening. I would stop feeding when it looked like their crops were about to explode.

I feed them at least twice a day, usually whenever they make noise, lol. It's amazing how much food their crops hold compared to poultry. I didn't know that their crops were shaped differently, and then I found this:


Source: http://www.fernbank.edu/Birding/digestion.htm

 

[casportpony]

Here they are now.

 

[Hokum Coco]

They look healthy! The pin feathers are all but in place. They will be fledged and flying in about 30 days. I find there development is a little slower when being hand fed but not by much. Looks like you are doing something right casportpony! Good luck!