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Re: Hi Evelyn. to LindaC
Posted by LindaC in OK on 5/14/07

trust me it is never a bother to answer questions.

I put 1/2 teaspoon of thawed mashed papaya in the formula the one day.
Normally I would use probiotic in a tube from the vets and that is once a day
and about 1/4 teaspoon of that.

The papaya is on hand in case a baby should get slow crop and I wouldn't want
to use it often just to be giving them something.

With your babys 4 weeks old they could be nibbeling on all sorts of healthy
veggies in a weaning cage. I put them in a weaning cage just a few minutes at
first then back to brooder and back and forth staying a bit longer in the
caged now and then. They always go back to brooder for long afternoon nap and
at night until they are about 7 weeks old. I give them millet spray in the
brooder for something to nibble on and paper plate of other foods in the
cage.

The quaker babys in photo were about 6 weeks old. No matter how much good
foods they ate I never forced weaning. Quakers will have a syringe at night
forever but considered weaned around 10/12 weeks old. My Lilo will soon be 4
years old and has formula 2 or 3 times a week as a night time comfort food
from the syringe. She says 'yummy' in a very excited voice when she sees it
coming.

Oh and the newspaper is on the cage grating so tootsies don't get hurt. I
move it over a bit at a time as they get use to walking on the grating. It's
all part of progress.

Time to feed the wee ones and get some sleep myself.

Hope all is well with you.

LindaC

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/09/07, by Evelyn.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/09/07, by Evelyn.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/09/07, by Lora.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/09/07, by Lora.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/10/07, by Evelyn.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!/Lora, 5/10/07, by LindaC in OK.
• Re: Hi Evelyn., 5/10/07, by LindaC in OK.
• Re: Hi Evelyn., 5/10/07, by Evelyn.
• Re: Hi Evelyn., 5/11/07, by LindaC in OK.
• Re: Hi Evelyn. to LyndaC, 5/14/07, by Evelyn.
• Re: Hi Evelyn. to LindaC, 5/14/07, by LindaC in OK.
• Re: Hi Evelyn. to LindaC, 5/14/07, by Evelyn.
• Re: Hi Evelyn. to LindaC, 5/14/07, by LindaC in OK.
• Re: Hi Evelyn. to LindaC, 5/16/07, by Evelyn.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/27/07, by Jen.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/28/07, by Evelyn.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/31/07, by Lauron February.
• Re: Help! My First Quaker Babies!, 5/31/07, by Lauron February.
• Re: asking for free birds?, 6/02/07, by LindaC in OK.