FEATURE
To feed the juveniles a porridge of defrosted day-old chicks in addition to T20 toucan pellets (from the company Versele Laga) is used. From the third or fourth day onwards, when the juveniles start to feed independently from the dish, also banana is fed, which is extremely popular among trumpeters. In the following days, further fruits, like e.g. mango and papaya is added.
time, so eggs could not be put back under the incubating parents as originally planned. Nevertheless, a very high hatch rate could be reached, due to the meticulous weight check and respective humidity adjustment within the incubator. Hatched chicks have a weight of ~40g. 30-40 cm high boxes, in which the chicks are placed separately, prevent that the fast developing precocial birds jump out. To make sure that the chicks have an optimal surface the hand rearing-team stuffed the boxes with cardboard and firmly pressed wood shavings. Ceramic dark radiators provide the necessary warmth. From the first day, the young chicks are socialized with an equally young domestic fowl chick. On the one hand this little companion shall prevent that young trumpeters imprint on humans and on the other hand trumpeters learn from them like little kids from their older siblings: They carefully watch how the chickens peck at the ground and by imitating their behavior they learn much faster to ingest their food independently. Important for the socialization is that the domestic fowl chick and the trumpeter chick have approximately the same age. If
the domestic fowl chick is too old it can be recognized as a competitor resulting in conflicts between the two unequal “siblings”. The experienced hand rearing-team invested a lot of time and affection in rearing the juveniles. From the second day on they were fed 6-7 times per day, every 2-3 hours. To feed the juveniles a porridge of defrosted day-old chicks in addition to T20 toucan pellets (from the company Versele Laga) is used. From the third or fourth day onwards, when the juveniles start to feed independently from the dish, also banana is fed, which is extremely popular among trumpeters. In the following days, further fruits, like e.g. mango and papaya is added. After three weeks juveniles get a little bit of insect food (from the company Versele Laga) and a so called “fruit pigeon fruit mix”, which is prepared by Weltvogelpark Walsrode and contains chopped apple, blueberries, papaya, boiled carrots, potatoes and beetroot. From the fourth and fifth week onwards, oat flakes, grain feed, soaked hornbill pellets (H16 from the company Versele Laga), as well as few white mealworms are fed. After three
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