It has indeed being a blessed week for us with the birth of both our poults and the kittens we prefer to call bunnies. The poults were born about 6 days ago and the bunnies are just 4days old now. None of them is yet to celebrate a week of being born .
The poults have started eating at almost about thesame time as they were hatch. After about few hours of getting out of their shell they started hitten their beak on the floor of the cage in search of what to eat. Being gender and fragile we purchased about 2kg of the bird feed from the store and that is what we have been using to feed them here.
These feed is a blend of various staples from corn, to millet, soy beans. It has an inviting taste and has been blended to a more smooth mixture that the poults can easily pick and eat.
We have been asking around about when is the proper time for their vaccination, for the first 7days the poults are to receive some vaccine to both assist their immune system against infection and for proper growth. For poultry birds I know that they often take the Lasota vaccine but for these poult I can't say if it's a different vaccine. Since we now keep these poultry, we have to learn about their proper growth and do everything within our means to keep them alive.
The mother turkey wasn't able to hatch more eggs from the remaining eggs she had after bearing those 5poults. We were hoping that she will hatch more but the eggs all got rotten which we have thrown away.
At this time I believe that having an incubator that can hatch these eggs will have been a more profitable business. We have thrown away about 10eggs that weren't hatched. These would have been 10 more additional poults for us.
The Bunnies on the other hand have been really shy and even their eating has been minimal
The mother here doesn't quite bother about whatever she is being feed feed, the bunny has adopted to eating any kind of vegetative plant she is been offered that isn't harmful. Even our kitchen waste is a delicious meal for her. It's not difficult to feed the mother.
The kittens on the other hand have remained bonded unto each other since the moment of their birth. Their skins are still so tender and the stack on each other all through the day to keep themselves warm.
I haven't caught them eating anything yet and I'm still wondering about what can be used go feed them.
Please I need good ideas on what can be used go feed these new born kittens.
