Monday, February 20, 2023

Murai Batu @ White Rumped Shama Care Summary



MOLTING BIRDS CARE

*  Increase Live Food intake.

*  Cut live food with scissors not too small and wet.

*  Add fish oil or palm oil (Omega 3) to the cut insects and bugs.

*  Add powdered multi vitamins and Vitamin B to dry food.

*  Change the food twice a day

*  Partially cover the cage

*  Bath at least once a day

*  After molt, continue with dry food diet.

*  Healthy birds dropping consists of patch of white and a bit of black (waste)



SICK BIRDS

Feed with vitamins B Complex via crickets

Scaly leg: Use baby oil or ubat gamat to remove.


VITAMINS AND SUPPLIMENTS

*B Complex (4 times a week)

*Multi vitamins (3 times a week)

*Palm oil or fish Oil , A, D3 and E (3 times a week)

*Calcium as in cuttlefish bone or egg shell


LIVE FOODS

*  Buffalo Worms       *  Dubia Roaches

*  Pineapple Beatles   *  Meal worms

*  BSF Larva              *  Crickets

*  Grasshoppers          *  Prawn

*  Guppy                     *  Tadpoles

*  Lizards                    *  Frogs


INCUBATION FOR MB EGGS

*  Relative Humidity (RH) 48-52%

*  Temperature 37.3'C 

*  On the 9th Day, 

       -Stop Turning the eggs.

       -Set the Relative Humidity (RH) 65%

*  Hatch by 11th - 14th days


MB hatching in incubator


BROODER FOR NEWLY HATCH MB

*  Relative Humidity (RH) 80-85%

*  Temperature from 37.3 'C to 36'C 

*  Minus 0.1'C each day



NEWLY HATCH MB CARE INCBATOR

* Day 1 to 3: Feed with small guppy and crickets abdomen only.

* Day 4 to 9: Continue feeding small guppy and crickets abdomen plus meal worms (choose white one because is soft.)

*Day 10 and above can introduce non live food to the birds mixed with live food.


**bird ID band can be gently insert to baby birds when  straw feather grows on wings. Normally will be between day 8 to 10. This is because the baby birds legs are still flexible.



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