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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chickadeedeedee" data-source="post: 1522939" data-attributes="member: 31336">Well ....... We have progress! I placed some Mayflies in with the triplets and the two picked up the Mayflies and ate them on their own. The little one with the malformed beak was able to take the Mayfly from my fingers and after some manipulations and a few episodes of dropping the poor insect and trying again, he too was able to eat on his own.  :t:  All three were very happy to have waxworms for dinner last night! Mmmmmm nothing like a face full of pudgy caterpillars before bedtime! :-O~~~~> Have a slight problem with the chicks though which I never had with any other birds we've raised. As they eat their ground food ... they may either wipe their beaks on their siblings or just plain ol' fling some food everywhere. Now all the chicks have bits of dried food stuck to various body parts.We've been wiping them off as soon as we see someone use their neighbour as a napkin but other times we haven't seen some food and it's dried on the little ones.Question: How do we clean these guys?  Give them a bath and quickly dry them? Try to comb / brush out the food?  Let them preeen the food out themselves?  I'm thinkin' (yes I do that sometimes) to bathe them.  What are your thoughts?  Thanks!Never had such messy kids! :-O</blockquote>