Thanks everyone, for the sweet comments. The little birds are all still alive and appear very healthy...and hungry! They get to be such a mess with formula stuck to their feathers. Today I took a damp washcloth and tried to clean them up a bit...then took some pictures. They got quite scared when I took them all out for pictures. I am trying not to get them too tame as I want them to have a good chance of survival once they are out on their own.
I have ordered 1000 meal worms from the pet store here. I probably should have ordered 2000. I hand raised another wren once and kept buying all the pet stores out of meal worms. They eat like little pigs! The lady at this pet store will order them for me and charge me their cost, plus shipping, so that should help. I had over $100 into the one wren I raised...yikes...now I have 5! I may have to have a "feed the birds" sale on here! LOL It will really help to get the worms at cost though! They won't be in till Wednesday, so I bought 200 last evening. They haven't yet tasted them...and no...I won't be holding those little worms with my fingers...I'll use a tweezer. LOL
I banded the birds with different color rings, so I can now keep track of them better. Here's pictures. The one with their mouths open is blurry, but will attach it anyway. |