This book is for both amateur bird owners and professional breeders. It offers instructions on maintaining a bird nursery, keeping it heated and sanitary, and tending the chicks. Differing feed formulas are given for different species, including parrots, doves, finches, soft-billed birds, pheasants, and others. Advice pertains to correcting problems often suffered by baby birds, from dehydration and discolored feathers to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections.
- Table of Contents:
- Preface
- From Egg to Hatchling, and Introduction
- Natural Incubation
- The Nursery
- Incubation
- Proper Avian Nutrition
- Feeding Tools and How to Use Them
- Feeding and Weaning Chicks
- Hand-Feeding Step-by-Step (Practical Notes)
- Health Problems
- Glossary
- Useful Literature and Addresses
- Index
- Paperback / 152 Pages / 6-1/2" x 7-7/8" / 1996
