Purple Martin Forum

Guys; looks like the Wildlife Rehab centers are probably the last resort. Just confirmed the "transplanting" of our 3 orphan chicks - SUCCESS! Even with placing two in an already full nest of four chicks, they all are doing well 5 days later, the parents have been in overdrive feeding them...

That's too bad that Texas re-hab place thinks of dollar signs first. We found out in the day or so we fed our chicks that it is NOT every 15 to 30 minutes. They typically would eat 3 or 4 water-softened cat food pieces and then sleep like babies for at least an hour, wake up and do it over again an ...

Thanks for the suggestion Kathy. We were looking at that possibility, but my wife said they are going to be integrated with the other nestlings, after changing the "diapers", the bedding of the baby chicks three times in 24 hours, that was it! So turns out we have 7 other active nests (we ...

We have two of a total of six more nests that have chicks about the same size, and one of those has five nestlings, so don't think we can put more than one in each so rather than risking that and having a loner. seems the best to keep them together, for right now anyway. Be nice if we knew of a land...

Have 3 orphan chicks in NE Kansas, don't have the time to feed them every hour or two. Must be about 2 to 3 weeks old. Caught the big rat snake moving to another nest, made him pay for his deeds, but we believe the mother was strangled as she was in another compartment overnight, he didn't eat her, ...