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Keeping Rescued Baby Birds Warm:
It's always a good idea to try to help God's creatures.
We live in a rural area with lots of trees, and occasionally
have had to try rescue baby birds who have been hurt or simply got blown
out of a tree with their nest destroyed or unable to be found.
Sometimes
they are just in shock, and need loving care to get better. I
was trying to think of a good way to keep them warm one day when I
remembered the old baby wipe warmer I'd kept, just in case. The quilted
cover
surrounds an old baby wipe box that of course has a lid that opens up.
The
quilted cover is then plugged in. The wipe box is the perfect size to
hold one
baby bird (or even more) after I line it with some warm cotton and
maybe some
grass clippings for natural measure. I keep the box open, and the bird
stays
warm at night when I can't keep it warm enough with body heat. Use a
thermometer to make sure they stay at the right temperature, depending
on whether they have feathers yet or not. (See the website below on the
Emergency bird care page to find out temperature suggestions.)
I also use an old dropper from an infant bottle of Tylenol to feed the
babies with, and it works great.
We don't have an animal rescue here in the
middle of nowhere, so we had to come up with a way to try to save our
feathered
friends on our own. Sometimes they don't make it, and this is very sad.
But it can also be used as an inroad to talk about how God loves all of
us including the birds, and when we take care of even the least of
beings, we are caring for Him.
If we see birds blown out of their nests, of course we stick
them back into it. But if they're hurt or something, the baby wipe warmer helps
a lot, it also helps for stray eggs my son finds on occasion, to keep them warm
and hopefully incubate them 'til we can figure out where to put the eggs.
I'm told a good website to find help in caring for your rescued birds is
http://www.starlingtalk.com/ which goes over every aspect of bird care for all birds.
