This I am sorry to say is what we use to weigh our babies. We are in the market for digital scales.

The thing here is, it is paramont to monitor the weight  of the babies wether you use analog or digital. 

Some problems in the avain world do not show till it is to late. There is some weight loss to be expected but that is prior to flying. and we will go over that.

Here it is folks. This is it. Our new scale. it measures in tenths of a gram. And it will measure up to 6 ounces. I don't know of any tiels that big.

We are going to be adding to this list as we go through the steps of raising this clutch.

Mineral oil tobe administered to the babies' bottom when there appears to be a proplem at that end.
Hand-feeding formula for birds
* Baby food applesauce - this aids in the digestion of the formula.
Pedialyte or equivalent
Q-Tips
Paper towels
Ben-Bac

We grew a little tired of waiting for the clutch we were going to highlight to hatch. So we will be doing the article on these 6 babies. Now they are from 2 different clutches. Do not count your chickens or tiels before they hatch, even if they haven't hatched yet. Give them a chance.

Okay, what we have here is either a failure to communicate between the birds and us, or us thinking we knew it all.

Babies usually hatch 18 to 21 days after the egg is produced. Well we goofed, we forgot to teach our birds how to read these books that we have been reading.

This is the history of this clutch. The first egg appeared the 30^th of December 1998, the 2^nd the 1^st of January 1999, the 3^rd egg the 2^nd, the 4^th egg the 4^th, the 5^th egg the 6^th and the 6^th egg the 8^th. So consequentially they should have started hatching the 17^th.

Well when they didn't show up the 17^th, the 18^th, or even the 19^th or even the 21^st ,  we felt that the eggs were infertile. This was possible because this is the first clutch for the hen and the 2^nd for the male.

They just don't know how to read to find out what they are supposed to be doing. On the 24^th 2 eggs hatched, the 25^th another egg hatched and there was one today the 26^th of January 1999.

The moral of this story is, "don't count your chicks till they hatch" or "give em a chance." We were going to wait till the 6^th egg was 21 days old, then we were going to call it quits on this clutch.  You should always give an egg especially the first 1 or 2 eggs extra days because the birds sometimes won't start sitting the eggs till they have what they consider enough to sit.