what to feed baby cranes? (help)

[blueraven]

Hi I hatched some crowned cranes and have two chicks they' re 2 days old. what should I feed them. I have been giving them dragonfly nymphs from the pond there are so many. I hatched one last year and it died later from unknown cause so i want to keep these alive. is there anything i should not feed them.

 

[sourland]

PM spectrumranch or chickenzoo for advice. Both have experience with cranes.

 

[Alien]

I start my Crowned And Demosilles on mealworms. Make sure you pinch them, and feed them with a pair of tweezers, slowly wave it in front of them and they soon pick up on it.
I also put a couple baby bantams with them, soon they are eating dry feed also.

 

[blueraven]

I start my Crowned And Demosilles on mealworms. Make sure you pinch them, and feed them with a pair of tweezers, slowly wave it in front of them and they soon pick up on it.
I also put a couple baby bantams with them, soon they are eating dry feed also.

should the mealworms be alive or could they be dead ones?

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I am not of much help, but I would love to add cranes in the future!

Congrats on your hatch! Can you post pictures?

 

[blueraven]

thank you I am feeding them right now some watery mashed up maruzi or however its spelt the exotic food for young waterfowl . they seem to really like it and one has even learned where the water dish is and knows how to drink on its own i havent seen the other drink on its own but i do water the food down alot so they are getting water from the food itself.

 

[bribre]

Would love to see some pics!!

 

[Koeyohte]

Same I haven't checked out this area in the forums before, I'm always in the pheasant/quail/chicken/turkey ones.

Where do you get cranes? We have sandhills around here and I love watching the parents with their offspring. I wondered if people had various cranes as pets and I saw this thread ^^

 

[Tony K T]

Shouldn't you have read up on these before you hatched them?These birds are very expensive to not do any research on them.
In N.H.,Tony.

 

[fawne]

All birds no matter what bird they are eat bird food, worms, bugs, leaves.