- Baby Beau.
(wings flapping)
Good boy.
What a good boy.
Hey, everyone, Jamieleigh here,
from BirdTricks, along with Baby Beau,
who you've been seeing a lot, around,
because we came out of the baby bird course.
It's so awesome.
What are you doing?
Just like leaning.
Today I wanna walk you through a day
in the life of a baby bird.
(Beau caws)
Yeah.
(reflective music)
So the first thing I wanna say,
that's almost like a disclaimer,
are you ditching me?
Can never tell.
Is that there should never be a typical day in the life,
so to speak.
It should always have variety and something different.
So for example, you might have a wedding
or a birthday party to attend to,
and you might not see your bird for the day.
That is okay.
That is a good variety and break to have.
It just builds anticipation for
your bird to see you next time.
(Beau continues to caw)
You have a little wet spot.
Okay, however, so I guess to go into that,
Dave and I always talk
about being consistently inconsistent.
And what we mean by that is don't feed,
oh, how did you get that in your mouth so quickly?
Don't feed at the exact same time every day.
I know that a lot of people are very routine,
just based on work schedules and this and that,
so as much variety as you can push around in your routine,
the better, so that
you don't build an unrealistic expectation,
which I know we've talked about.
Do you wanna go fly now.
'Cause you are not seeming that content.
I'll put you here and you can play.
Yeah, and if you lose interest in that,
you can go fly, okay?
All right.
So feeding baby birds.
Obviously, depending on how old your baby is,
this is gonna vary.
If your baby requires a specific amount
of time in between feedings,
then that's gonna be very, very specific,
until they're a little bit older
and they can handle a little bit
more variety in their feeding.
So Beau, right now, he wakes up
and he's over 1,000 grams.
So I'm not worried about his weight.
He's not worried about getting breakfast
as soon as he wakes up.
It's pretty much within a few hours
of him waking up, but he's not
really sure when, exactly, that is.
So the more variety to your routine
that you can have, the better.
The less of a routine that you have, the better.
The only time we like routine is
when you have that 12-hour chunk of sleep for birds.
We really like that.
So if that can be consistent,
that's really ideal, to just avoid
any sort of hormonal issues, mood swings,
all the things, 'cause we all need good sleep
for that kinda stuff.
So some typical things that you'll see
in a day in a life of a baby bird is lots of flying.
So much flying.
That is not where you wanna be, dude.
It's gonna fall, or you are.
You might see some random socializing,
based on who's coming over to your house,
who stops by, where you go,
if you decide to bring the bird with you,
just some random socializing.
You might have a training session.
That might be some fun stuff.
You might introduce something new to your bird.
You might work on some food things
and getting the baby bird to eat better.
As he poops.
You might work on self-entertaining.
Like I said, if you have somewhere to be
and you gotta go somewhere, you're looking at me,
then your bird might spend a little chunk
of the day self-entertaining,
playing with toys, being destructive,
flying around its aviary.
You might find that you're getting
your bird some outside times,
which is desensitization, exposure to outdoors,
all those good things.
You might be working on different types of training,
where it's like touching all over.
Maybe I'll touch your tail.
Obviously not a problem for Beau.
Poking your human in the eye with your tail (laughs).
Showering.
That might be part of your daily routine,
where you do a shower-- (wings flutter)
And you find that your baby bird is most receptive
at a certain time of day,
and that works for you, and that's awesome.
Again-- (laughs)
He's so funny.
He got a little nervous about something
and he (groans) almost fell off the bridge.
It was super cute.
Didn't fall, though.
But yeah, there's a lotta different things
that go into a baby bird's routine,
and it kind of involves all this stuff, so I'm--
(wings flutter)
Beau.
Beau, Beau.
(plastic clattering)
Oh, my gosh, really?
Oh, gimme your foot.
He's hanging from my light, that is a circle,
so it was not going very well for you.
So obviously baby birds are up to a lot.
It might involve some serious flying
around the house, right?
(wings flutter)
Back to the tree?
Nope, around.
Ah-ha-ha.
Oh, yes, ha!
Got your interception.
It might involve some cuddling and some downtime.
So I was just stretching, minding my own business,
when this thing ended up on my leg.
(Beau croons)
What is happening?
What?
What's happening?
Where'd you come from?
Who invited you to my stretching session?
Yeah, no one.
Uh, I do not need my toes chewed on.
Hint, hint.
You never know with a baby bird, 'cause they got energy.
(wings fluttering)
(Beau thuds)
All right, you just had a first crash.
Um, so Beau decided to land on the curtain,
and realized it was really not a good idea.
No, it's not a good idea.
They gots energy.
They gotta do something with it,
not on the table, at the camera.
Whatcha doing?
You wanna play with this?
Get it, get it.
Good job.
Can you get it, get it more?
Gonna get it more?
Oh, it can't reach you.
So cute.
Get it.
(wood clatters)
If you guys are interested in more baby bird footage
and knowledge, how-tos, all the things,
we have a baby bird course that
you can find down in the link below,
in the video description.
So go check it out.
It's all about raising baby birds right.