Expecting your suggestion.

This budgie do not asking any food from its parents therefore they are not feeding this chick.

 

Sickness symptoms:

1) Breathing too fast (can be observed from far),

2) Dark-brown droppings,

3) Max time closing its eyes,

3) It runs fast and seems can't see clearly,

4) Do not accept hand feed,

5) Almost no voice.

 

There is its pics:

 

Here is my take on your situation.

 

Maybe the reason the parents are not feeding it wasn't due to its failure to ask for food, but rather from their decision to reject it, owing to it having some sort of defect. I'm not saying this is a certainty, just another possibility. Both scenarios are likely.

 

I think that once a chick is too far gone, for whatever the reason, they stop asking for and accepting any food.

 

If it won't eat, there is nothing you can do to save it. You can try tube feeding it directly to the crop, but by the looks of the chick, it might be too little, too late.

 

 

It's nice that you have tried to save it, but I hope you don't feel too bad, because there are occasionally ones that just aren't going to make it.

 

 

I forgot to ask, are the parents raising the rest of the chicks fine, and the problem is limited to just this chick?

Hi , your little chick would probably be dehydrated, could you try to get it to take fluid from an eyedropper?

I read for a sickly bird add a couple drops RASPBERRY CORDIAL AND LEMON JUICE to water.

If you can get it to take water it may then try food, do you have hand rearing formula?

 

If you take it from nest at that size parents may not accept it back into nest so you would have to hand rear it.

 

If you don't take it out it may infect rest of clutch. If it has an infection of some sort.

 

Are there other chicks in nest?

You say it doesn't seem to see well, maybe it's blind can you check that somehow? That may be why it doesn't take food.

 

Not much help to you I'm afraid, I'd try fluids first. Good luck, others may have better advice for you to try to save it.

Guys, thanks a lot for your reply.

 

Above chick is no more

I took all of 4 chicks out of the nest because momy budgie began to stay outside the nest and chicks were crying loudly.

That chick was youngest one. Often I returned them in breeding cage 1 by 1 to take food. All of them asked and got proper food from parents but the white one stopped asking food and started death starving.

 

Anyway, now I am facing another problem!

Another chick started starving while their parents totally stopped feeding. This chick is over 1 month old and always becoming mad to get food from its parents, sis, bro. None of them feeding it. Also he is always rejecting hand feed while its adult bro, sis accepting so nicely.

Last time i see this chick is fighting to get food from its brother's mouth.

 

It's getting sick too, what to do now? Any suggestion will be appreciated?

A four week old is old enough to eat mostly on his own, if he has already been having practice on how to crack the seed. If he's never seen seeds before in his life, it may take him a while to figure it out. That's why it's good to keep them with their parents as long as possible, because they learn by copying.

 

 

That's also why it's a good idea to put seeds into the nest box as bedding once the chicks reach the two week mark. Because they learn to eat on their own before they fledge.

 

 

So I would suggest that you put some seed in with the chicks. You said you took all 4 out of the nest. So give them seed as bedding in wherever it is that you are keeping them now. You can also give them oats (the kind we make oatmeal out of) and oat groats, which are like whole oat seeds. I get mine at a health food store. Those seem to be easy things for beginners to eat. I also give my beginner eaters vegetables and greens, oranges, and egg biscuit. It's called Abundance Weaning. They have a lot of different things to sample, and it gets them used to eating a varied healthy diet.

 

 

If you're worried that he's getting sick due to lack of eating, you may have to crop feed him, if you can get a hold of a crop needle and syringe. I find that once they are past three weeks old, they really don't want to accept a hand feeding of formula. If I have one that age that won't eat formula, and whose parents won't feed it, I make sure it has a good supply of food, and cross my fingers that it will learn to eat on its own. (And all of mine have, probably because they already knew how to eat seed.) But I think it's odd that his siblings won't feed him, because in my experience, the ones that won't accept a feeding from me go and beg off of their sibs. It's like the piggiest chick eats a lot from me, and then goes and distributes it to all the other chicks.

 

 

What you have described about the mother staying out of the box is normal. After around two weeks, the chicks don't need her to keep them warm much any more, and the mother will stop spending much time in there. She will just go in to feed them, and it is normal for them to sqwauk loudly when they get hungry.

 

 

i almost wonder if this is not a feeding issue, but some kind of illness that has struck. ??