i have 4 recently hatched babies the oldest is 9 days and wanted to hand tame 1 for inside for my girls and was just wondering what age i shoukd start handling them and for how long ? thanks

I began handling mine when I had to start cleaning out the nest box, I think the oldest baby was about three weeks. Before then the parents were able to clean out the box quite nicely by themselves. You can probably handle them now, but I think the less intrusion on your part the better when they are not feathered...less of a chance the parent birds will take out their frustration with human interferance on the babies I believe. If you talk to them frequently throughout the day they will know your voice even before they see you.

Once they babies have the fluff all over their body it's safe to handle them, this between one and two weeks. Keep the handling short when they are young. After two weeks is when I started handling them every day at least once for around 10 mins before returning them back to mum.