How Do You Monitor A Baby Parrots Growth?
A growth-monitoring system is extremely important to raising healthy baby parrots. Aside from the need to ensure that the chicks are growing at an acceptable rate, most health problems that arise in the nursery first present themselves in the form of sudden weight loss. Milder problems may show up as a leveling-off in weight gain when the chick would otherwise be expected to grow quickly. By consistently monitoring and recording each chick’s weight, you can catch illness early and treat it, which will increase the survival rate of your young parrots. Purchase a good-quality gram scale with interchangeable bowl and perch attachments. The scale should be accurate to 1g, or .10g if you are using it to weigh very small species. Weigh each baby parrot by itself in the early morning, prior to the first feeding. Handfeeding formula is quite dense, and if the crop is not completely empty, the weight you record will be inaccurate. Record the chick’s weight on your handfeeding record sheet (or o
