How To Care For Baby Mouse Bird. To care for a wild baby mouse wait several hours before removing it from its nest since the mother may be out looking for food. You must call a wildlife rehabilitator as soon as possible to ensure a raptors survival.
Thoroughly dry the infant to prevent urine scald and bacterial infection. If the baby weighs 77 grams you will feed 38 cc. The mousebirds are birds in the order Coliiformes.
Caring for a baby bird can be rewarding.
A general rule of thumb is that an infant mouse will need to be fed in hourly intervals equal to the number of weeks it is in age. For example if the baby weighs 6 grams you will feed 3 cc. How does a wildlife rehabilitator care for a baby. Baby birds of prey typically eat only protein mouse rodent etc and the average homeowner will not have a stash of chopped mouse meat in the refrigerator.