Feeding fledgling baby magpie, help from experienced owners?

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(Please, don't start on laws, parents feeding chicks on the ground, shelters and such. In short, I found the baby late at night on the street, took it in for the night, and freed it in the morning in the safest garden in the neighborhood, at soon as it made contact with the parents.
Just as the sun goes down again, the neigbor calls, cats are chasing the baby, the parents going crazy attempting to defend it. Cats would get it as soon as it was too dark for the parents to fly, so I took it in again. Too late to find the shelter open.)

Long story short, I don't know if the parents managed to get any food into it today, I hope so, but all the same I'm trying. Its refusing tiny bits of mashed cat food and raw meat, just turns it's beak away. It's too old to trust me right away as a source of food. 

Any tips on getting it to accept food? Recepies, food temperature, presentation, holding the beak in a particular way?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I doubt that it can eat solid food. They normally eat the regurgitated predigested contents of their parents' stomach.  It could cause harm to force it to take even water. Try giving these folks a call.

http://www.wildliferehabber.org/

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Firstly, in no way ever give birds bread! It is not just right for them!!! The infants will have to have been left on my own. As any one else has already said the dad and mom might had been staring at from a distance! They must had been determined from a distance to peer if the father and mother are still feeding them. Mum and dad can feed and preserve there babies even from the bottom. When viable uninjured child birds will have to be positioned again within the nest or in a synthetic nest corresponding to a dangling basket or identical, placed as excessive up the tree as possible. It is shocking how tiny and underdeveloped a chook may be and but nonetheless be fluttering between timber and relocating around their atmosphere. As youngster magpies desire a special food plan and an skilled carer to deal with them I recommend you're taking them to your nearest vet or wildlife safe haven to be cared for competently. At this kind of small age they must be kept in a hotbox to ensure they are saved at the correct temp. Additionally they need to be feed so sometimes a day and particular quantities. The meals as any one has suggest that you simply buy from the shops is most effective a supliment. They need far more then that! For those who rather care about these bad little birds I advise you hand them over instantaneously. To not point out its unlawful to maintain flora and fauna. Place them in a box in some old towel etc...Maintain them darkish and warm. Be certain they are saved in a relatively discipline and take them to an skilled character asap.

Anonymous · Answer

You should not interfere, what will be will be. Just free the bird & let its parents do their job. If the cats eat it then so be it. Nature is cruel & cats are a menace but you cannot save every bird you come across nor should you attempt to, there is always a balance between predators & prey. Not a human's place to go poking their nose in.

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You have to feed it special baby bird formula for a few weeks then introduce small solid foods.

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