*URGENT*! Baby Bird eggs Found! *IT HATCHED!!!*

[ScissorChick]

wow. I'm sure if they would make a nest in a shoe,

they'd make a nest in a tarp.. Darn...Theres no 'license'

that I can get to care for him atleast until he gets big

enough to release?

 

[youngbiddy]

I wouldn't worry about it; it's not like you went out and trapped it and you're raising it to sell, for goodness sake.

There are so many dumb laws....
I don't know how many baby birds I raised and returned to the wild in my teens, all unconscious of the myriad laws I was unwittingly breaking. Gee, fine me and throw me in jail for rescuing baby birds.

 

[BeckyBird]

Youngbiddy, I was the same as you. When I was a teenager, I had no idea that you couldn't keep wild birds. I used to raise birds all the time!

Now, I am a licensed taxidermist, and I have to know wildlife laws. I could be fined and jailed for keeping any wild bird, alive OR dead. In fact, any person without a bird rehab license can be fined (and possibly jailed). The game wardens can come to my residence and inspect me at any time, and they have done so in the past. Yeah, the laws stink, and I didn't make them. But, since I know the law, it would be wrong of me NOT to warn people. Will the game warden come to your house? Probably not. But the risk of someone turning you in is there, and the consequences are very real.
Do you know how I found out that it is illegal to care for wild birds? Let me tell you, after years of raising various songbirds:

When I was 17, I found a nest of Canada Goose eggs. I took some home, and 1 hatched. I raised him, and he was the greatest pet ever. He followed me around wherever I went. In a few months, he was full size, and I would take him into the woods next to my house to swim in the creek. I would run up and down the road, and he would flap behind me, trying to fly. We had a fence in the backyard where he lived, and he was very happy. I even took him in the car to a park, where we swam in the Potomac River together.

One day, out of the blue, a game warden showed up at my door. He told my mother that it was illegal for us to have this goose, and we were to release him immediately. Despite the fact that the fence he lived in had no roof, so he could theoretically fly out of it. He did tell my mother that the goose seemed to be very well cared for, but we still had to release him. I don't know who turned me in, probably some nosey neighbor who saw me running around the street with a goose!

Anyways, although I don't agree with some wildlife laws, they do exist, and it would be wrong if I didn't warn Scissorchick.

 

[hippiehen]

Quote:

It's like a classic disney movie!! "A Girl and Her Goose"

 

[BeckyBird]

Lol, and "Fly Away Home" is one of my favorite movies ever!!

 

[ScissorChick]

OMG you guys he hatched. My dad walked down there, checked the incubater,

and hes totally hatched! He's wriggling around! When does he need to be fed? I've

got his 'nest' made from a basket and cotton balls just like youngbiddy resommended.

OK. On our way to the grocery store...What exactly do we need to feed him?

But his feet or through the grate. They're to small. Do I need to get him out now?

Pictures soon..

 

[EasterEggersRULE]

Aw so glad he hatched ! Can't wait to see pics!

 

[aprille218]

How about the stuff they have for hand feeding parrots? If you're lucky enough to have a store with specialty items like that it would be an option. Or maybe pureed baby food until you can find something better? Probably one of the meat varieties. Getting a hold of a wildlife rehab expert would be a good idea either to raise it or even for options on what to feed it too.
Aprille

 

[Hixnstix]

Once I had a nest of baby birds from a cable guy episode. Anyway I knew someone who hand raised cockateals and she told me to feed them watered down baby rice cereal with an eye dropper. It worked every time I bumped their nest they'd open wide. Just a thought maybe it will work for you till you find a real momma bird With better advise. Good luck & keep your baby warm!!!!

 

[silkiechicken]

Wow! It hatched! My parakeets are in the process of raising their first clutch of eggs, and when I looked into hand feeding parakeet chicks, it said every 2 hours for the first week... lo and behold, I heard the mom bird feeding chicks all day long... and when I got up at night to take a peek, she was still feeding them then too! Good luck.