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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iris Kristina" data-source="post: 579019" data-attributes="member: 39641">When I was feeding birds by hand I had to give them also water (small drops) by hand. They can not use water dishes as the indoor /cage birds are used to. Also very important always to feed very small protions, to start at dawn and do it in intervals the whole day through. I feeded a combination of local food, that the species uses and with the time started to switch to food supplies which were easear to get, but still somehow similar. For example very very small portions of liver insted of worms, berries etc. But it has to accord to the tipe of bird you are hand feeding.Also not to forget to keep them warm at night. With the magpies (which were still without feathers) we made good experience keepeng them warm in holding our hand over them the whole night. It wasn't simple but we (our family) succeded in growing them up. Usually they have fallen out of their nests and we saved them from cats....I just can report you about my experiences, but I don't know the tipe of bird you have. So you have to ajust it to your tipe of bird. But maybe my experiences can give you some hints how to get the solution.In our family it has been always more or less a whole family project, because nobody has time the whole day througt, but the birds do need that. Good luck!Iris</blockquote>