When will the chicks feed themselves?

Babies are best left for parents to feed and raise. You can handle them daily so they get hand tamed and used to you, but I dont feel the need to remove chicks from parents if I handle them daily. Parents feed their babies up to point of fledging and afterwards for about a week. Babies fledge at around 4-5 weeks and are eating seed probably up to a week after fledging, some on the same day. Don't be too quick to remove parents from babies as they need to learn to forage for their seed by watching the parents eat.

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