my mum has an aviary with budgies. On the day she was admitted into hossie, another budgie had gone into the nesting box of another budgie and pecked at them quite severely. We lost one baby due to this, but there are 5 others. The mother abandoned them, so i took over their care. Four of them are quite big babies, they have 90% of their feathers and are eating the seed and millet which i have put for them. There is one baby which is very young. It still hasn't got all its feathers and is still downy ITMS. The bigger ones leave the bird box and walk around in the cardboard box which they are in and this little one is left alone. I just walked into the room where they are and found this little one sprawled on the floor of the box. It was cold. I went in to get it so i could feed it as it is the one that can't eat seed yet. I was horrified. I grabbed it and got some food ready, but it was too sick to eat. It was freezing, and on deaths door. I put it inside my top and is now sitting in my cleavage still fighting for life. How do i keep it warm at night and now too? I can't have it living in my cleavage all day as i have to hang out the washing!
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