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Phantom asked in PetsBirds · 1 decade ago

What to feed a nearly fleched English Black Bird chick?

Found / rescued on road dueing strom with cats nearby.

I have previosly seen older chicks with parents, so know the species. Last 15yrs these foreign exotic birds have appeared and are now common but know little about what they eat.

We live Blue Mnts Australia.

Chick is similar in size / shape to Indian Minior, but are solitary pair not flock birds.

Daughter currenty feading it cooked fish, shreded chicken & milk as well as cooked peas & watermellon by twizers. THANKS.

Update:

Thanks all for great answers. The Black bird chick is starting to fly & is now easy to feed as he opens his mouth as soon as he see's someone. It is eating lots of worms, slaters (pill bugs) fruit & cooked chicken.

Worms are easier to find now as the drought breaking rain that was falling when we found him on the road is still falling. Will release him when he learns to catch insects and dig up worms. Though thinly dispersed they are now found in pairs over most of East Coast Australia. Saw first foreign Black bird localy when daughter born.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    St Tiggywinkles is a charity in the UK with a lot of experience with raising orphaned baby birds. Blackbirds eat a mix of mainly insects and worms + some fruit and seeds. The chicks need worms and insects. The charity website gives a recipe for feeding orphaned birds.

    Hope that helps.

    look under fact sheets, birds.

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    4 years ago

    Blackbird Chicks

  • 1 decade ago

    You could always go to a local pet store and look for Kaytee's exact. It's a handfeeding formula mostly used for exotic birds, but I have seen it used by vets to help rescued babies. It has the exact nutritional requirements that they need as babies, just use an eyedropper since you aren't too familiar with handfeeding. When the baby starts to refuse these types of feeding, then you should move to the other foods. But for now, it's probably too young for the foods your feeding it.

    Source(s): raise and rescue avians.
  • 1 decade ago

    i've never heard of that kind of bird, but I've always just fed my babies worms, you buy the nightcrawlers for fishing and chop them into smaller pieces, or catch grasshoppers and pull the hind legs off before feeding them to the baby birds. If you can't do that them get some mealy worms to feed them. I don't really like the whole mealy worm thing, because it takes more of them, and they turn into beetles really fast.

    Good luck with your new baby bird!

    Source(s): but i've raised baby grackles, robins, and barn swallows.
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